OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Biophysics Journal With Biophysics Letters is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Biophysical characterization of the DNA binding motif of human phospholipid scramblase 1	92
Long-term memory in Staphylococcus aureus α-hemolysin ion channel kinetics	30
Characterization of Aquaporin Z proteoliposome structure and functionality via microscopy and scattering methods	27
Structure of a novel form of phosphopantetheine adenylyltransferase from Klebsiella pneumoniae at 2.59 Å resolution	26
Real-time tilting and twisting motions of ligand-bound states of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor	25
Mechanistic insights of neuronal calcium and IP3 signaling system regulating ATP release during ischemia in progression of Alzheimer’s disease	22
Use of cesium chloride density gradient ultracentrifugation for the purification and characterization of recombinant adeno-associated virus	21
A gene-encoded bioprotein second harmonic generation (SHG) probe from Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV) polyhedrin for live cell imaging	19
Choosing the right density for a concentrated protein system like gluten in a coarse-grained model	18
From survival of irradiated mice to modern molecular insights: a seventy-year journey in radiobiology at the institute of biophysics, Czech academy of sciences	17
Self-assembly of smooth muscle myosin filaments: adaptation of filament length by telokin and Mg·ATP	16
Modeling study of kinesin-13 MCAK microtubule depolymerase	14
Assessment of protein incorporation into SBA-15 particles and their structural changes	13
Electron currents mediated by tonoplast cytochromes b561	12
Optimizing electroporation via pulse modulation: a molecular dynamics study	12
Pulling short DNA with mismatch base pairs	11
Numerical solution of compartment-based reaction/diffusion models with DABOSS algorithm	11
Molecular transport through nano-sized multipores of lipid vesicles: a COMSOL simulation study	11
Microfluidics for protein interaction studies: current methods, challenges, and future perspectives	10
Interactive multiple binding of oleic acid, warfarin and ibuprofen with human serum albumin revealed by thermal and fluorescence studies	9
Analysis of proteins in the light of mutations	9
Quadruplexes with a grain of salt: influence of cation type and concentration on DNA G4 stability	9
Computational discovery of dual potential inhibitors of SARS‐CoV‐2 spike/ACE2 and Mpro: 3D-pharmacophore, docking-based virtual screening, quantum mechanics and molecular dynamics	9
Modulation of conformational features and oligomerization of MMACHC by cobalamin variants: impact of the R161Q mutation in cblC disease	9
14th EBSA congress, July 31 – August 4, 2023, Stockholm, Sweden – Abstracts	8

Analysis of residue–residue interactions in the structures of ASIC1a suggests possible gating mechanisms	8
The effects of lithium on human red blood cells studied using optical spectroscopy and laser trap	8
SViMULATE: a computer program facilitating interactive, multi-mode simulation of analytical ultracentrifugation data	8
The effect of ionic redistributions on the microwave dielectric response of cytosol water upon glucose uptake	7
Rational design of stapled helical peptides as antidiabetic PPARγ antagonists to target coactivator site by decreasing unfavorable entropy penalty instead of increasing favorable enthalpy contribution	7
Proceedings of the 26th International Analytical Ultracentrifugation Workshop and Symposium	7
Mechanical anisotropy of hair affected by genetic diseases highlights structural information related to differential crosslinking in keratins	7
Diversity of hydrodynamic radii of intrinsically disordered proteins	7
Time-dependent simulation of blood flow through an abdominal aorta with iliac arteries	7
Experimental extraction of Young’s modulus of MCF-7 tissue using atomic force microscopy and the spherical contact models	7
Erythrocytes membrane fluidity changes induced by adenylyl cyclase cascade activation: study using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching	7
Relation between flexibility and intrinsically disorder regions in thermosensitive TRP channels reveal allosteric effects	6
Design of inhibitor peptide sequences based on the interfacial knowledge of the protein G-IgG crystallographic complex and their binding studies with IgG	6
Structural and functional characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans cyclic GMP-activated channel TAX-4 via molecular dynamics simulations	6
DNA binding to small anionic ligands: the case of Orange G dye	6
Rethinking the protein folding problem from a new perspective	6
Reciprocal effect on lateral diffusion of receptor for advanced glycation endproducts and toll-like receptor 4 in the HEK293 cell membrane	6
DNA methylation enhances cooperative disentanglement by the Hfq nucleoid-associated protein	6
The cross-correlation-based analysis to digest the conformational dynamics of the mitoBK channels in terms of their modulation by flavonoids	6
The sleeping bacterium: shedding light on the resuscitation mechanism	6
Molecular Biophysics Database (MBDB) makes raw measurements findable and reusable	5
Structure and dynamics of pteridine reductase 1: the key phenomena relevant to enzyme function and drug design	5
On the utility of microfluidic systems to study protein interactions: advantages, challenges, and applications	5
A quantitative interspecies comparison of the respiratory mucociliary clearance mechanism	5
A comparative characterisation of commercially available lipid-polymer nanoparticles formed from model membranes	5
Quenching of G4-DNA intrinsic fluorescence by ligands	5
Hydrodynamic properties of macromolecules and nanoparticles in dilute solution: a brief essay on classical and modern concepts	4
Peptide-based pore formation and cell membrane deformation: European Biophysics Journal Prizes at EBSA 2023	4
Systematic noise removal from analytical ultracentrifugation data with UltraScan	4
Correction to: Thermodynamics of protein folding: methodology, data analysis and interpretation of data	4
Revealing the single-channel characteristics of OprD (OccAB1) porins from hospital strains of Acinetobacter baumannii	4
On-the-fly resolution enhancement in X-ray protein crystallography using electric field	4
Amyloid fibril length distribution from dynamic light scattering data	4
Professor Emil Paleček: seven decades with electrodes and biomolecules at the Institute of Biophysics of the CAS	4
Molecular dynamics study of collective water vibrations in a DNA hydration shell	4
On the possibility of the existence of orienting hydrodynamic steering effects in the kinetics of receptor–ligand association	4
Exploring the influence of water micro assemblies on protein folding, enzyme catalysis and membrane dynamics	4
Crystal structure of 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methyl pyrimidine phosphate kinase (HMPP kinase) from Thermus thermophilus HB8	4
AAV analysis by sedimentation velocity analytical ultracentrifugation: beyond empty and full capsids	3
Determination of the size parameters of α-synuclein amyloid precursor forms through DLS analysis	3
A paradigm shift: analytical ultracentrifugation as a multi-attribute platform method in targeted protein degradation	3
An intramolecular disulphide bond in human 4E-T affects its binding to eIF4E1a protein	3
Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase activase isoforms from diverse species show differences in oligomeric structure, thermal stability, and activity	3
Structural analysis of the peptides temporin-Ra and temporin-Rb and interactions with model membranes	3
Physical principles underpinning molecular-level protein evolution	3
Mammalian Nudt15 hydrolytic and binding activity on methylated guanosine mononucleotides	3
A new UltraScan module for the characterization and quantification of analytical buoyant density equilibrium experiments to determine AAV capsid loading	3
Comparative sedimentation equilibrium analysis of two IgG1 glycoforms: IgGCri and IgGWid	3
Proceedings of the 25th Analytical Ultracentrifugation Workshops and Symposium	3
Flagellar rotational features of an optically confined bacterium at high frequency and temporal resolution reveal the microorganism’s response to changes in the fluid environment	3

Analytical ultracentrifugation as a tool for exploring COSAN assemblies	3
An obituary: Dr. Helmut Cölfen 1965–2023	3
Acytota and the evolution of complexity	3
On the role of calcium diffusion and its rapid buffering in intraflagellar signaling	3
Micropipette-based biomechanical nanotools on living cells	3
A robust fluorescence-based assay for human erythrocyte Ca++ efflux suitable for high-throughput inhibitor screens	3
Isothermal titration calorimetry in the single-injection mode with imperfect mixing	2
Application of electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the relative nanoenvironment fluidity of polymeric micelles	2
In silico study of cytochrome-C binding to a cardiolipin-containing membrane	2
Biophysical and microbiological aspects of the interaction between Yersinia pestis PsaA and bacteriophage L-413C	2
Inhibitor design for TMPRSS2: insights from computational analysis of its backbone hydrogen bonds using a simple descriptor	2
Physics of collective cell migration	2
Facilitating the simulation of sedimentation velocity data: new features of SViMULATE	2
A spectral decomposition quality assessment tool for multi-wavelength AUC experiments with UltraScan	2
Correction: Abstracts	2
Cell wall channels of Rhodococcus species: identification and characterization of the cell wall channels of Rhodococcus corynebacteroides and Rhodococcus ruber	2
Beyond the US-SOMO-AF database: a new website for hydrodynamic, structural, and circular dichroism calculations on user-supplied structures	2
Statistical mechanics of bone damage: a constitutive model	2
Biophysical characterization of polyphenol aggregates in Moringa oleifera leaves water extract: stability and surface exposure effect on antioxidant activity under dilution	2
Mechanical waves caused by collective cell migration: generation	2
Twist-stretch relations in nucleic acids	2
Physical aspects of epithelial cell–cell interactions: hidden system complexities	2
Two-layer elastic models for single-yeast compressibility with flat microlevers	2
Mitochondrial alterations induced by Macrovipera lebetina venom	2
Drug–ionic surfactant interactions: density, sound speed, spectroscopic, and electrochemical studies	2
Syndiotactic hexamer peptide nanodots	2
Application of artificial neural network for the mechano-bactericidal effect of bioinspired nanopatterned surfaces	2
Determination of mRNA copy number in degradable lipid nanoparticles via density contrast analytical ultracentrifugation	2
Effects of sugar concentration on the electroporation, size distribution and average size of charged giant unilamellar vesicles	2
Quantitative characterization of non-specific interaction of two globular proteins with Dextran T70 in a binary mixture	2
Wave propagation through a viscous fluid-filled elastic tube under initial pressure: theoretical and biophysical model	2
Molecular and thermodynamic mechanisms for protein adaptation	2
Tracking reduction-induced molecular changes in pathological free light chains by SV-AUC	2
The role of cholesterol binding in the control of cholesterol by the Scap–Insig system	2
A fit-less approach to the elasticity of the handles in optical tweezers experiments	2
N2 modified cap analogues as translation inhibitors and substrates for preparation of therapeutic mRNA	1
Probing the interactions of the HIV-1 matrix protein-derived polybasic region with lipid bilayers: insights from AFM imaging and force spectroscopy	1
Sedimentation velocity FDS studies of antibodies in pooled human serum	1
The inhibition of glucose uptake to erythrocytes: microwave dielectric response	1
Extreme enthalpy‒entropy compensation in the dimerization of small solutes in aqueous solution	1
Extraction of geometric and transport parameters from the time constant of exocytosis transients measured by nanoscale electrodes	1
Inside the membrane: a closer look using elastic scattering techniques and friends	1
Annexin A5 stabilizes matrix vesicle-biomimetic lipid membranes: unravelling a new role of annexins in calcification	1
Structural investigation, computational analysis, and theoretical cryoprotectant approach of antifreeze protein type IV mutants	1
Ionizable lipids in bio-inspired nanocarriers	1
Specific TP53 mutations impair the recruitment of 53BP1 to DNA double-strand breaks underlying the mechanism of radioresistance	1
Fragmentation of nucleoli in senescent cancer cells is associated with increased levels of polyadenylated transcripts derived from noncoding regions of rDNA units	1
Analysis of ligand binding mechanism by dimeric receptors using stopped-flow fluorimetry—application to the human decapping scavenger enzyme	1
The origin of mutational epistasis	1
Rational design of potent phosphopeptide binders to endocrine Snk PBD domain by integrating machine learning optimization, molecular dynamics simulation, binding energetics rescoring, and in vitro aff	1
Exploring neural networks to uncover information-richer features for protein interaction prediction	1
SDS-induced hexameric oligomerization of myotoxin-II from Bothrops asper assessed by sedimentation velocity and nuclear magnetic resonance	1
Suitability of double-stranded DNA as a molecular standard for the validation of analytical ultracentrifugation instruments	1
MIL-CELL: a tool for multi-scale simulation of yeast replication and prion transmission	1
An improved platform for cultured neuronal network electrophysiology: multichannel optogenetics integrated with MEAs	1
EBSA at 40 – an updated history	1
Observations of three “re-entrant” twisted structures in double-stranded DNA dispersion particles	1
Voltage-sensing domains: structural and functional diversity	1
Acoustofluidic interferometric device for rapid single-cell physical phenotyping	1
Location of oncogene-induced DNA damage sites revealed by quantitative analysis of a DNA counterstain	1
NMR measurement of biomolecular translational and rotational motion for evaluating changes of protein oligomeric state in solution	1
Active wetting of epithelial tissues: modeling considerations	1
Mechanical properties of adherent cell sheets analyzed by deflection of supporting membrane	1
Image analysis tools for improved characterization of nuclear chromatin patterns by confocal fluorescence microscopy	1
Neurotransmitter uptake of synaptic vesicles studied by X-ray diffraction	1
Tautomeric equilibrium and spectroscopic properties of 8-azaguanine revealed by quantum chemistry methods	1
15th EBSA congress, June 30 – July 4, 2025, Rome, Italy – Abstracts	1
Experimental support for reclassification of the light scattering second virial coefficient from macromolecular solutions as a hydrodynamic parameter	1
Atomic force spectroscopy with magainin 1 functionalized tips and biomimetic supported lipid membranes	1
Exploring the biomechanical response of human semicircular canals by a visualized bionic model	1
Special Issue: 18th Congress of the Polish Biophysical Society	1
The Structure of the LysR-type Transcriptional Regulator, CysB, Bound to the Inducer, N-acetylserine	1
Exploring characteristic features for effective HCN1 channel inhibition using integrated analytical approaches: 3D QSAR, molecular docking, homology modelling, ADME and molecular dynamics	1
Competitive adsorption of a monoclonal antibody and amphiphilic polymers to the air–water interface	1
Comparison of three AUC techniques for the determination of the loading status and capsid titer of AAVs	1
A stochastic mathematical model for coupling the cytosolic and sarcoplasmic calcium movements in diseased cardiac myocytes	1
Correction: SEDNTERP: a calculation and database utility to aid interpretation of analytical ultracentrifugation and light scattering data	1
A model for ribosome translocation based on the alternated displacement of its subunits	1