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ArticleeLife2025

Simulation-based survey of TMEM16 family reveals that robust lipid scrambling requires an open groove.

Christina Alexandra Stephens, Niek van Hilten, Lisa Zheng, Michael Grabe

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Article in eLife, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Hydrophobic mismatch induces lipid sorting based on tail unsaturation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  10. A cell-based scrambling assay reveals the phospholipid headgroup preference of TMEM16F on the plasma membrane.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Christina Alexandra Stephens *Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9382-003X
Niek van Hilten *Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1204-2489
Lisa Zheng *Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8640-2443
Michael GrabeCardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3509-5997

Funding

Ion permeation, lipid flipping, and membrane remodeling by TMEM16 proteinsR01GM137109 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI GRABE, MICHAEL · 2021 to 2024
$1.4M
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program 2038436NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM137109NIH HHS R01 GM137109University of California, San Francisco Discover Fellowship Program
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological membranes are complex and dynamic structures with different populations of lipids in their inner and outer leaflets. The Ca

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AnoctaminsCell MembranePhospholipidsPhospholipid Transfer ProteinsAnimalsCalciumHumansMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein ConformationAnoctaminsCalciumPhospholipidsPhospholipid Transfer Proteinscoarse-grained simulationsmembrane deformationmembrane transportmolecular biophysicsmousescramblasesstructural biologyTMEM16

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PMID40768244
PMCPMC12327946

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