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ReviewEuropean biophysics journal : EBJ2013

Molecular dynamics of water in the neighborhood of aquaporins.

Marcelo Ozu, H Ariel Alvarez, Andrés N McCarthy, J Raúl Grigera, Osvaldo Chara

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Review in European biophysics journal : EBJ, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Aquaporin Gating: A New Twist to Unravel Permeation through Water Channels.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Marcelo OzuLaboratorio de Biomembranas, Departamento de Ciencias Fisiológicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
H Ariel Alvarez
Andrés N McCarthy
J Raúl Grigera
Osvaldo Chara
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · ARInstituto de Fisica de Liquidos y Sistemas Biologicos · ARUniversidad de Buenos Aires · AR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Present knowledge obtained by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation studies regarding the dynamics of water, both in the vicinity of biological membranes and within the proteinaceous water channels, also known as aquaporins (AQPs), is reviewed. A brief general summary of the water models most extensively employed in MD simulations (SPC, SPC/E, TIP3P, TIP4P), indicating their most relevant pros and cons, is likewise provided. Structural considerations of water are also discussed, based on different order parameters, which can be extracted from MD simulations as well as from experiments. Secondly, the behaviour of water in the neighbourhood of membranes by means of molecular dynamics simulations is addressed. Consequently, the comparison with previous experimental evidence is pointed out. In living cells, water is transported across the plasma membrane through the lipid bilayer and the aforementioned AQPs, which motivates this review to focus mostly on MD simulation studies of water within AQPs. Relevant contributions explaining peculiar properties of these channels are discussed, such as selectivity and gating. Water models used in these studies are also summarised. Finally, based on the information presented here, further MD studies are encouraged.

Indexed as

AquaporinsMolecular Dynamics SimulationWaterAnimalsCell MembraneHumansAquaporinsWater

Identifiers

PMID23274929
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