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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Biophysical characterization of the DNA binding motif of human phospholipid scramblase 1	89
Long-term memory in Staphylococcus aureus α-hemolysin ion channel kinetics	29
Use of cesium chloride density gradient ultracentrifugation for the purification and characterization of recombinant adeno-associated virus	27
Real-time tilting and twisting motions of ligand-bound states of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor	24
Structure of a novel form of phosphopantetheine adenylyltransferase from Klebsiella pneumoniae at 2.59 Å resolution	22
Mechanistic insights of neuronal calcium and IP3 signaling system regulating ATP release during ischemia in progression of Alzheimer’s disease	21
Characterization of Aquaporin Z proteoliposome structure and functionality via microscopy and scattering methods	21
A gene-encoded bioprotein second harmonic generation (SHG) probe from Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV) polyhedrin for live cell imaging	18
Self-assembly of smooth muscle myosin filaments: adaptation of filament length by telokin and Mg·ATP	17
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
Choosing the right density for a concentrated protein system like gluten in a coarse-grained model	17
Modeling study of kinesin-13 MCAK microtubule depolymerase	14
Numerical solution of compartment-based reaction/diffusion models with DABOSS algorithm	13
Pulling short DNA with mismatch base pairs	12
SViMULATE: a computer program facilitating interactive, multi-mode simulation of analytical ultracentrifugation data	12
Quadruplexes with a grain of salt: influence of cation type and concentration on DNA G4 stability	11
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	11
Analysis of residue–residue interactions in the structures of ASIC1a suggests possible gating mechanisms	10
Modulation of conformational features and oligomerization of MMACHC by cobalamin variants: impact of the R161Q mutation in cblC disease	10
Thermodynamics of semi-specific ligand recognition: the binding of dipeptides to the E.coli dipeptide binding protein DppA	9
Optimizing electroporation via pulse modulation: a molecular dynamics study	9
Molecular transport through nano-sized multipores of lipid vesicles: a COMSOL simulation study	9
Electron currents mediated by tonoplast cytochromes b561	9
Microfluidics for protein interaction studies: current methods, challenges, and future perspectives	9
The effects of lithium on human red blood cells studied using optical spectroscopy and laser trap	8

Analysis of proteins in the light of mutations	8
14th EBSA congress, July 31 – August 4, 2023, Stockholm, Sweden – Abstracts	8
Interactive multiple binding of oleic acid, warfarin and ibuprofen with human serum albumin revealed by thermal and fluorescence studies	8
Time-dependent simulation of blood flow through an abdominal aorta with iliac arteries	7
Diversity of hydrodynamic radii of intrinsically disordered proteins	7
Relation between flexibility and intrinsically disorder regions in thermosensitive TRP channels reveal allosteric effects	7
The effect of ionic redistributions on the microwave dielectric response of cytosol water upon glucose uptake	7
Mechanical anisotropy of hair affected by genetic diseases highlights structural information related to differential crosslinking in keratins	7
DNA binding to small anionic ligands: the case of Orange G dye	7
Experimental extraction of Young’s modulus of MCF-7 tissue using atomic force microscopy and the spherical contact models	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
Erythrocytes membrane fluidity changes induced by adenylyl cyclase cascade activation: study using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching	7
Structural and functional characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans cyclic GMP-activated channel TAX-4 via molecular dynamics simulations	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
The sleeping bacterium: shedding light on the resuscitation mechanism	6
The cross-correlation-based analysis to digest the conformational dynamics of the mitoBK channels in terms of their modulation by flavonoids	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
Correction to: Lipoic acid nanoforms based on phosphatidylcholine: production and characteristics	6
Quenching of G4-DNA intrinsic fluorescence by ligands	5
Amyloid fibril length distribution from dynamic light scattering data	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
On the possibility of the existence of orienting hydrodynamic steering effects in the kinetics of receptor–ligand association	5
Revealing the single-channel characteristics of OprD (OccAB1) porins from hospital strains of Acinetobacter baumannii	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
Professor Emil Paleček: seven decades with electrodes and biomolecules at the Institute of Biophysics of the CAS	5
Molecular Biophysics Database (MBDB) makes raw measurements findable and reusable	5
Correction to: Thermodynamics of protein folding: methodology, data analysis and interpretation of data	4
On-the-fly resolution enhancement in X-ray protein crystallography using electric field	4
Molecular dynamics study of collective water vibrations in a DNA hydration shell	4
Systematic noise removal from analytical ultracentrifugation data with UltraScan	4
Crystal structure of 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methyl pyrimidine phosphate kinase (HMPP kinase) from Thermus thermophilus HB8	4
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
Physical principles underpinning molecular-level protein evolution	3
Comparative sedimentation equilibrium analysis of two IgG1 glycoforms: IgGCri and IgGWid	3
An obituary: Dr. Helmut Cölfen 1965–2023	3
An intramolecular disulphide bond in human 4E-T affects its binding to eIF4E1a protein	3
On the role of calcium diffusion and its rapid buffering in intraflagellar signaling	3
A robust fluorescence-based assay for human erythrocyte Ca++ efflux suitable for high-throughput inhibitor screens	3
Analytical ultracentrifugation as a tool for exploring COSAN assemblies	3
Exploring the influence of water micro assemblies on protein folding, enzyme catalysis and membrane dynamics	3
A paradigm shift: analytical ultracentrifugation as a multi-attribute platform method in targeted protein degradation	3
Proceedings of the 25th Analytical Ultracentrifugation Workshops and Symposium	3
Micropipette-based biomechanical nanotools on living cells	3
Determination of the size parameters of α-synuclein amyloid precursor forms through DLS analysis	3
AAV analysis by sedimentation velocity analytical ultracentrifugation: beyond empty and full capsids	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
Structural analysis of the peptides temporin-Ra and temporin-Rb and interactions with model membranes	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
Inhibitor design for TMPRSS2: insights from computational analysis of its backbone hydrogen bonds using a simple descriptor	2
A fit-less approach to the elasticity of the handles in optical tweezers experiments	2
Molecular and thermodynamic mechanisms for protein adaptation	2
N2 modified cap analogues as translation inhibitors and substrates for preparation of therapeutic mRNA	2
Beyond the US-SOMO-AF database: a new website for hydrodynamic, structural, and circular dichroism calculations on user-supplied structures	2
Application of electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the relative nanoenvironment fluidity of polymeric micelles	2
Morphological, fractal, and textural features for the blood cell classification: the case of acute myeloid leukemia	2
In silico study of cytochrome-C binding to a cardiolipin-containing membrane	2
Twist-stretch relations in nucleic acids	2
Physical aspects of epithelial cell–cell interactions: hidden system complexities	2
Correction to: Reproducibility and accuracy of microscale thermophoresis in the NanoTemper Monolith: a multi laboratory benchmark study	2
Isothermal titration calorimetry in the single-injection mode with imperfect mixing	2
Drug–ionic surfactant interactions: density, sound speed, spectroscopic, and electrochemical studies	2
Statistical mechanics of bone damage: a constitutive model	2
Two-layer elastic models for single-yeast compressibility with flat microlevers	2
Correction: Abstracts	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
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
Physics of collective cell migration	2
Wave propagation through a viscous fluid-filled elastic tube under initial pressure: theoretical and biophysical model	2
Application of artificial neural network for the mechano-bactericidal effect of bioinspired nanopatterned surfaces	2
Syndiotactic hexamer peptide nanodots	2
The role of cholesterol binding in the control of cholesterol by the Scap–Insig system	2
Biophysical and microbiological aspects of the interaction between Yersinia pestis PsaA and bacteriophage L-413C	2
Probing the interactions of the HIV-1 matrix protein-derived polybasic region with lipid bilayers: insights from AFM imaging and force spectroscopy	2
Neurotransmitter uptake of synaptic vesicles studied by X-ray diffraction	1
Tracking reduction-induced molecular changes in pathological free light chains by SV-AUC	1
The Structure of the LysR-type Transcriptional Regulator, CysB, Bound to the Inducer, N-acetylserine	1
Ionizable lipids in bio-inspired nanocarriers	1
Correction: SEDNTERP: a calculation and database utility to aid interpretation of analytical ultracentrifugation and light scattering data	1
The inhibition of glucose uptake to erythrocytes: microwave dielectric response	1
SDS-induced hexameric oligomerization of myotoxin-II from Bothrops asper assessed by sedimentation velocity and nuclear magnetic resonance	1
15th EBSA congress, June 30 – July 4, 2025, Rome, Italy – Abstracts	1
Observations of three “re-entrant” twisted structures in double-stranded DNA dispersion particles	1
Tautomeric equilibrium and spectroscopic properties of 8-azaguanine revealed by quantum chemistry methods	1
Exploring neural networks to uncover information-richer features for protein interaction prediction	1
Competitive adsorption of a monoclonal antibody and amphiphilic polymers to the air–water interface	1
Location of oncogene-induced DNA damage sites revealed by quantitative analysis of a DNA counterstain	1
Acoustofluidic interferometric device for rapid single-cell physical phenotyping	1
Sedimentation velocity FDS studies of antibodies in pooled human serum	1
Experimental support for reclassification of the light scattering second virial coefficient from macromolecular solutions as a hydrodynamic parameter	1
Inside the membrane: a closer look using elastic scattering techniques and friends	1
Analysis of ligand binding mechanism by dimeric receptors using stopped-flow fluorimetry—application to the human decapping scavenger enzyme	1
A model for ribosome translocation based on the alternated displacement of its subunits	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
Cell wall channels of Rhodococcus species: identification and characterization of the cell wall channels of Rhodococcus corynebacteroides and Rhodococcus ruber	1
NMR measurement of biomolecular translational and rotational motion for evaluating changes of protein oligomeric state in solution	1
Mechanical waves caused by collective cell migration: generation	1
Fragmentation of nucleoli in senescent cancer cells is associated with increased levels of polyadenylated transcripts derived from noncoding regions of rDNA units	1
Active wetting of epithelial tissues: modeling considerations	1
Comparison of three AUC techniques for the determination of the loading status and capsid titer of AAVs	1
Structural investigation, computational analysis, and theoretical cryoprotectant approach of antifreeze protein type IV mutants	1
The origin of mutational epistasis	1
Specific TP53 mutations impair the recruitment of 53BP1 to DNA double-strand breaks underlying the mechanism of radioresistance	1
A stochastic mathematical model for coupling the cytosolic and sarcoplasmic calcium movements in diseased cardiac myocytes	1
Suitability of double-stranded DNA as a molecular standard for the validation of analytical ultracentrifugation instruments	1