Publications | The Aksimentiev Group

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Woochul Song, Himanshu Joshi, Ratul Chowdhury, Joseph S. Najem, Yue-xiao Shen, Chao Lang, Codey B. Henderson, Yu-Ming Tu, Megan Farell, Megan E. Pitz, Costas D. Maranas, Paul S. Cremer, Robert J. Hickey, Stephen A. Sarles, Jun-li Hou, Aleksei Aksimentiev, and Manish Kumar. "Artificial Water Channels Enable Fast and Selective Water Permeation Through Water-wire Networks." Nature Nanotechnology. 15,:73-79 (2020).

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Megan Farell, Maxwell Wetherington, Manish Shankla, Inseok Chae, Shruti Subramanian, Seong H. Kim, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Joshua Robinson, and Manish Kumar. "Characterization of the Lipid Structure and Fluidity of Lipid Membranes on Epitaxial Graphene and Their Correlation to Graphene Features." Langmuir 35:4726-4735 (2019).

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Hyeonji Oh, Yu-Ming Tu, Laximicharan Samineni, Sophie De Respino, Behzad Mehrafrooz, Himanshu Joshi, Lynnicia Massenburg, Horacio Lopez-Marques, Nada Elessawy, Woochul Song, Harekrushna Behera, Raman Dhiman, Veda Sheersh Boorla, Kartik Kher, Yi-Chih Lin, Costas Maranas, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Benny D. Freeman, and Manish Kumar. "Dehydrated Biomimetic Membranes with Skinlike Structure and Function." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2024).

Prabhat Tripathi, Morgan Chandler, Christopher Michael Maffeo, Ali Fallahi, Amr Makhamreh, Justin Halman, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Kirill A. Afonin, and Meni Wanunu. "Discrimination of RNA fiber structures using solid-state nanopores." Nanoscale 14:6866-6875 (2022).

Sarah E. Ochmann, Himanshu Joshi, Ece Büber, Henri G. Franquelim, Pierre Stegemann, Barbara Saccà, Ulrich F. Keyser, Aleksei Aksimentiev, and Philip Tinnefeld. "DNA Origami Voltage Sensors for Transmembrane Potentials with Single-Molecule Sensitivity." Nano Letters 21:8634-8641 (2021).

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Xin Shi, Anna-Katharina Pumm, Christopher Maffeo, Fabian Kohler, Elija Feigl, Wenxuan Zhao, Daniel Verschueren, Ramin Golestanian, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Hendrik Dietz, and Cees Dekker. "A DNA turbine powered by a transmembrane potential across a nanopore." Nature Nanotechnology (2023).

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Javier Antonio Alfaro, Peggy Bohländer, Mingjie Dai, Mike Filius, Cecil J. Howard, Xander F. van Kooten, Shilo Ohayon, Adam Pomorski, Sonja Schmid, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Eric V. Anslyn, Georges Bedran, Chan Cao, Mauro Chinappi, Etienne Coyaud, Cees Dekker, Gunnar Dittmar, Nicholas Drachman, Rienk Eelkema, David Goodlett et al. "The emerging landscape of single-molecule protein sequencing technologies." Nature Methods 18 (2021).

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Christopher R. Benson, Christopher Maffeo, Elisabeth M. Fatila, Yun Liu, Edward G. Sheetz, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Abhishek Singharoy, and Amar H. Flood. "Inchworm movement of two rings switching onto a thread by biased Brownian diffusion represent a three-body problem." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2018).

Aleksei Aksimentiev, Ilya A. Balabin, Robert H. Fillingame, and Klaus Schulten. "Insights into the molecular mechanism of rotation in the Fo sector of ATP synthase." Biophys J 86:1332-44 (2004).

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Aleksei Aksimentiev, Robert Hołyst, and Marcin Fialkowski. "Morphology of surfaces in mesoscopic polymers, surfactants, electrons, or reaction-diffusion systems: Methods, simulation and measurements." Advances in Chemical Physics 121:141-239 (2002).

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Elisa Alina Hemmig, Clare Fitzgerald, Christopher Maffeo, Lisa Hecker, Sarah Elisabeth Ochmann, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Philip Tinnefeld, and Ulrich F. Keyser. "Optical voltage sensing using DNA origami." Nano Letters 18:1962-1971 (2018).

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Deyu Lu, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Amy Y. Shih, Eduardo Cruz-Chú, Peter L. Freddolino, Anton Arkhipov, and Klaus Schulten. "The role of molecular modeling in bionanotechnology." Phys Biol 3:S40-53 (2006).

Prabhat Tripathi, Liang Shuai, Himanshu Joshi, Hirohito Yamazaki, William H. Fowle, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Hicham Fenniri, and Meni Wanunu. "Rosette Nanotube Porins as Ion Selective Transporters and Single-Molecule Sensors." Journal of the American Chemical Society 142:1680-1685 (2020).

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Prabhat Tripathi, Liang Shuai, Himanshu Joshi, Hirohito Yamazaki, William H. Fowle, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Hicham Fenniri, and Meni Wanunu. "Rosette Nanotube Porins as Ion Selective Transporters and Single-Molecule Sensors." Journal of the American Chemical Society 142:1680-1685 (2020).

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James C. Phillips, David J. Hardy, Julio D. C. Maia, John E. Stone, João V. Ribeiro, Rafael C. Bernardi, Ronak Buch, Giacomo Fiorin, Jérôme Hénin, Wei Jiang, Ryan McGreevy, Marcelo C. R. Melo, Brian K. Radak, Robert D. Skeel, Abhishek Singharoy, Yi Wang, Benoît Roux, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Zaida Luthey-Schulten, Laxmikant V. Kalé et al. "Scalable molecular dynamics on CPU and GPU architectures with NAMD." J. Chem. Phys. 153 (2020).

Marcin Fialkowski, Aleksei Aksimentiev, and Robert Hołyst. "Scaling of the Euler characteristic, surface area, and curvatures in the phase separating or ordering systems." Phys Rev Lett 86:240-3 (2001).

Dan Qiao, Himanshu Joshi, Huangtianzhi Zhu, Fushi Wang, Yang Xu, Jia Gao, Feihe Huang, Aleksei Aksimentiev, and Jiandong Feng. "Synthetic Macrocycle Nanopore for Potassium-Selective Transmembrane Transport." Journal of the American Chemical Society 143:15975-15983 (2021).

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Fengyu Liu, Xiaoming Liu, Qing Shi, Christopher Maffeo, Masaru Kojima, Lixin Dong, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Qiang Huang, Toshio Fukuda, and Tatsuo Arai. "A tetrahedral DNA nanorobot with conformational change in response to molecular trigger." Nanoscale (2021).

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Luning Yu, Xinqi Kang, Fanjun Li, Behzad Mehrafrooz, Amr Makhamreh, Ali Fallahi, Joshua C. Foster, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Min Chen, and Meni Wanunu. "Unidirectional single-file transport of full-length proteins through a nanopore." Nature Biotechnology (2023).