Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29151344›Full record

ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. B2017

Computation of Hemagglutinin Free Energy Difference by the Confinement Method.

Sander Boonstra, Patrick R Onck, Erik van der Giessen

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry. B, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. How endosomal PIKfyve inhibition prevents viral membrane fusion and entry.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
    Article
  2. Continuum Models of Membrane Fusion: Evolution of the Theory.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sander BoonstraMicromechanics of Materials, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen , 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-4910-5685
Patrick R OnckMicromechanics of Materials, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen , 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
Erik van der GiessenMicromechanics of Materials, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen , 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8369-2254
University of Groningen · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hemagglutinin (HA) mediates membrane fusion, a crucial step during influenza virus cell entry. How many HAs are needed for this process is still subject to debate. To aid in this discussion, the confinement free energy method was used to calculate the conformational free energy difference between the extended intermediate and postfusion state of HA. Special care was taken to comply with the general guidelines for free energy calculations, thereby obtaining convergence and demonstrating reliability of the results. The energy that one HA trimer contributes to fusion was found to be 34.2 ± 3.4k

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationThermodynamicsHemagglutininsHemagglutinins

Identifiers

PMID29151344
PMCPMC5742479
OpenAlexW2769000418

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