Gerhard Hummer: Theoretical Biophysics – Department Publications
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2026
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Integrative Multiscale Simulations Uncover the Mechanistic Principles Governing COPII Mediated Vesicle Formation. The Journal of Membrane Biology 259 (1), 1 (2026)
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AI-guided transition path sampling of lipid flip-flop and membrane nanoporation. Nature Communications 17, 224 (2026)
2025
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Targeting the Spliceosomal Protein USP39 Through Allosteric Ligands and PROTAC-Induced Degradation. Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English), p. e16809 (2025)
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In situ structure of a gap junction-stomatin complex. Science Advances 11 (45), eaea8596 (2025)
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Multivalent Interactions Between the Picornavirus 3C(D) Main Protease and RNA Oligonucleotides Induce Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation. Viruses 17 (11), 1473 (2025)
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SND3 is the membrane insertase within a distinct SEC61 translocon complex. Nature Communications 16, 9566 (2025)
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A Multi-level Perspective on the Evolution of Orthologs and Their Functions. Journal of Molecular Evolution 93, pp. 720 - 729 (2025)
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cryoTIGER: deep-learning based tilt interpolation generator for enhanced reconstruction in cryo electron tomography. Communications Biology 8, 1443 (2025)
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A Chemically Induced CRISPR/dCas13FCPF Platform for Precise and Programmable RNA Regulation. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 68, pp. 22633 - 22649 (2025)
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YTHDF proteins and m6A-RNA clients undergo autophagic turnover during contact inhibition. Cell Reports 44 (9), 116188 (2025)
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AlphaFold modeling of polyubiquitin complexes and covalently linked proteins. Cell Reports Physical Science 6 (9), 102796 (2025)
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Martini 3 Coarse-Grained Models for Carbon Nanomaterials. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 21 (18), pp. 9035 - 9053 (2025)
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STIM1 transmembrane helix dimerization captured by AI-guided transition path sampling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (35), e2506516122 (2025)
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The rapidly expanding role of LC3-interacting regions in autophagy. Journal of Cell Biology 224 (8), e202504076 (2025)
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Reconstitution of BNIP3/NIX-mitophagy initiation reveals hierarchical flexibility of the autophagy machinery. Nature Cell Biology 27 (8), pp. 1272 - 1287 (2025)
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The Martini 3 Lipidome: Expanded and Refined Parameters Improve Lipid Phase Behavior. ACS Central Science 11 (9), pp. 1598 - 1610 (2025)
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Dipolar Cross-Correlations in Aqueous Systems: How Surfaces Influence Water's Action at a Distance. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 21, pp. 5686 - 5696 (2025)
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A short intrinsically disordered region at KtrB’s N-terminus facilitates allosteric regulation of K+ channel KtrAB. Nature Communications 16, 4252 (2025)
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AlphaFold2 SLiM screen for LC3-LIR interactions in autophagy. Autophagy 21 (10), pp. 2192 - 2212 (2025)
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Virus-like particles of retroviral origin in protein aggregation and neurodegenerative diseases. Molecular Aspects of Medicine 103, 101369 (2025)
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Structural pathway for PI3-kinase regulation by VPS15 in autophagy. Science 388 (6743), eadl3787 (2025)
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The need to implement FAIR principles in biomolecular simulations. Nature Methods 22 (4), pp. 641 - 645 (2025)
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The need to implement FAIR principles in biomolecular simulations. Nature Methods 22, pp. 641 - 645 (2025)
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Impact of Lewis Acids on the Reactivity of a High-Valent Cu(III) Complex. Inorganic Chemistry 64 (11), pp. 5734 - 5744 (2025)
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MolecularWebXR: Multiuser discussions in chemistry and biology through immersive and inclusive augmented and virtual reality. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 135, 108932 (2025)
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Janus-like behavior of intrinsically disordered regions in reticulophagy. Autophagy 21 (3), pp. 681 - 683 (2025)
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Passage of the HIV capsid cracks the nuclear pore. Cell 188 (4), pp. 930 - 943.e21 (2025)
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Scaling of the GROMACS Molecular Dynamics Code to 65k CPU Cores on an HPC Cluster. Journal of Computational Chemistry 46 (5), e70059 (2025)
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Nuclear pore permeability and fluid flow are modulated by its dilation state. Molecular Cell 85 (3), pp. 537 - 554.e11 (2025)
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Conformational dynamics of a multienzyme complex in anaerobic carbon fixation. Science 387 (6733), pp. 498 - 504 (2025)
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A round table at IUPAB Congress in Kyoto 2024: Dreaming the next 50 years in our biophysics. Biophysics and Physicobiology 21 (Supplemental2), e212012 (2025)
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A comparison of lipid diffusive dynamics in monolayers and bilayers in the context of interleaflet coupling. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: BBA 1867, 184388 (2025)
2024
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Faster Sampling in Molecular Dynamics Simulations with TIP3P-F Water. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 20 (24), pp. 11068 - 11081 (2024)
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Refined Protein-Sugar Interactions in the Martini Force Field. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 20 (22), pp. 10259 - 10265 (2024)
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Intrinsically disordered region amplifies membrane remodeling to augment selective ER-phagy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (44), e2408071121 (2024)
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IHMCIF: An Extension of the PDBx/mmCIF Data Standard for Integrative Structure Determination Methods. Journal of Molecular Biology 436 (17), 168546 (2024)
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Nanosecond chain dynamics of single-stranded nucleic acids. Nature Communications 15 (1), 6010 (2024)
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A Cu(ii) pseudopeptide complex: a surrogate to a formal Cu(iii) species in water and an inhibitor of cancer cell proliferation. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers 11, pp. 5172 - 5184 (2024)
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Molecular mechanism of choline and ethanolamine transport in humans. Nature 630, pp. 501 - 508 (2024)
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Structure and internal dynamics of short RNA duplexes determined by a combination of pulsed EPR methods and MD simulations. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English 63, e202402498 (2024)
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Energetics of the Transmembrane Peptide Sorting by Hydrophobic Mismatch. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 15 (20), pp. 5344 - 5349 (2024)
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Thalidomide derivatives degrade BCL-2 by reprogramming the binding surface of CRBN. Cell Reports Physical Science 5 (5), 101960 (2024)
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High-confidence 3D template matching for cryo-electron tomography. Nature Communications 15, 3992 (2024)
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Thinner is not always better: Optimizing cryo-lamellae for subtomogram averaging. Science Advances 10 (17), eadk6285 (2024)
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Extracting thermodynamic properties from van ’t Hoff plots with emphasis on temperature-sensing ion channels. Temperature 11 (1), pp. 60 - 71 (2024)
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Structure and assembly of a bacterial gasdermin pore. Nature 628 (8008), pp. 657 - 663 (2024)
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Encoding prior knowledge in ensemble refinement. The Journal of Chemical Physics 160, 114111 (2024)
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Hierarchical Assembly of Single-Stranded RNA. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 20 (5), pp. 2246 - 2260 (2024)
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Mechanism of proton-powered c-ring rotation in a mitochondrial ATP synthase. PNAS 121 (11), e2314199121 (2024)
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Rapid simulation of glycoprotein structures by grafting and steric exclusion of glycan conformer libraries. Cell 187 (5), pp. 1296 - 1311.e26 (2024)
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Mechanism and cellular function of direct membrane binding by the ESCRT and ERES-associated Ca2+-sensor ALG-2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (9), e2318046121 (2024)
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Nanoporous Membranes of Densely Packed Carbon Nanotubes Formed by Lipid-Mediated Self-Assembly. ACS applied bio materials 7 (2), pp. 528 - 534 (2024)
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DNA binding redistributes activation domain ensemble and accessibility in pioneer factor Sox2. Nature Communications 15, 1445 (2024)
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Three-step docking by WIPI2, ATG16L1, and ATG3 delivers LC3 to the phagophore. Science Advances 10 (6), eadj8027 (2024)
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Structure of the two-component S-layer of the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. eLife 13, e84617 (2024)
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The pursuit of accurate predictive models of the bioactivity of small molecules. Chemical Science 15 (6), pp. 1938 - 1952 (2024)
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Tracing the substrate translocation mechanism in P-glycoprotein. eLife 12, RP90174 (2024)
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RNA G-quadruplex folding is a multi-pathway process driven by conformational entropy. Nucleic Acids Research 52 (1), gkad1065, pp. 87 - 100 (2024)
2023
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Molecular Free Energies, Rates, and Mechanisms from Data-Efficient Path Sampling Simulations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 19 (24), pp. 9060 - 9076 (2023)
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Neighbor List Artifacts in Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 19 (23), pp. 8919 - 8929 (2023)
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Cell-free biosynthesis combined with deep learning accelerates de novo-development of antimicrobial peptides. Nature Communications 14 (1), 7197 (2023)
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Adsorbing DNA to Mica by Cations: Influence of Valency and Ion Type. Langmuir 39 (44), pp. 15553 - 15562 (2023)
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Molecular mechanisms of inorganic-phosphate release from the core and barbed end of actin filaments. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 30 (11), pp. 1774 - 1785 (2023)
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Martini 3 Coarse-Grained Force Field for Cholesterol. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 19 (20), pp. 7387 - 7404 (2023)
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Driving forces behind phase separation of the carboxy-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II. Nature Communications 14, 5979 (2023)
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Interaction of SARS-CoV-2 with host cells and antibodies: experiment and simulation. Chemical Society Reviews 52 (18), pp. 6497 - 6553 (2023)
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Efficient generation of random rotation matrices in four dimensions. Physical Review E 108 (3), 035307 (2023)
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Structure-function analysis suggests that the photoreceptor LITE-1 is a light-activated ion channel. Current biology: CB 33 (16), pp. 3423 - 3435.e5 (2023)
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Dissecting the conformational complexity and mechanism of a bacterial heme transporter. Nature Chemical Biology 19 (8), pp. 992 - 1003 (2023)
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Crosstalk between regulatory elements in disordered TRPV4 N-terminus modulates lipid-dependent channel activity. Nature Communications 14, 4165 (2023)
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Structural insights on ionizable Dlin-MC3-DMA lipids in DOPC layers by combining accurate atomistic force fields, molecular dynamics simulations and neutron reflectivity. Nanoscale 15 (27), pp. 11647 - 11656 (2023)
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Unwrapping NPT Simulations to Calculate Diffusion Coefficients. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 19, pp. 3406 - 3417 (2023)
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Heteromeric clusters of ubiquitinated ER-shaping proteins drive ER-phagy. Nature 618 (7964), pp. 402 - 410 (2023)
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Ubiquitination regulates ER-phagy and remodelling of endoplasmic reticulum. Nature 618 (7964), pp. 394 - 401 (2023)
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“Autophagic landscapes: on the paradox of survival through self-degradation” – A science-inspired exhibition. Autophagy 19 (9), pp. 2601 - 2606 (2023)
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Anisotropic Friction in a Ligand-Protein Complex. Nano Letters 23 (10), pp. 4111 - 4119 (2023)
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Selective killing of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori by mitochondrial respiratory complex I inhibitors. Cell Chemical Biology 30 (5), pp. 499 - 512 (2023)
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Visualizing the disordered nuclear transport machinery in situ. Nature 617 (7959), pp. 162 - 169 (2023)
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Machine-guided path sampling to discover mechanisms of molecular self-organization. Nature Computational Science 3 (4), pp. 334 - 345 (2023)
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Optimal Bond Constraint Topology for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Cholesterol. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 19 (5), pp. 1592 - 1601 (2023)
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Structural ensembles of disordered proteins from hierarchical chain growth and simulation. Current Opinion in Structural Biology 78, 102501 (2023)
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Antibody accessibility determines location of spike surface mutations in SARS-CoV-2 variants. PLoS Computational Biology 19 (1), e1010822 (2023)
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Surface Properties of N,N-Dimethylformamide-Water Mixtures, As Seen from Computer Simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 127 (4), pp. 1050 - 1062 (2023)
2022
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Force-tuned avidity of spike variant-ACE2 interactions viewed on the single-molecule level. Nature Communications 13 (1), 7926 (2022)
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Membrane curvature sensing and stabilization by the autophagic LC3 lipidation machinery. Science Advances 8 (50), eadd1436 (2022)
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Complexes++: Efficient and versatile coarse-grained simulations of protein complexes and their dense solutions. The Journal of Chemical Physics 157 (20), 204802 (2022)
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Sublytic gasdermin-D pores captured in atomistic molecular simulations. eLife 11, e81432 (2022)
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TriMem: A parallelized hybrid Monte Carlo software for efficient simulations of lipid membranes. The Journal of Chemical Physics 157 (17), 174801 (2022)
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RNA Captures More Cations than DNA: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2022)
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In situ structural analysis reveals membrane shape transitions during autophagosome formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (39), e2209823119 (2022)
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Cryo-EM structures of pentameric autoinducer-2 exporter from Escherichia coli reveal its transport mechanism. The EMBO Journal 41 (18), e109990 (2022)
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One of the two N-glycans on the human Gb3/CD77 synthase is essential for its activity and allosterically regulates its function. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (Orlando, FL) 617, pp. 36 - 41 (2022)
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Transition Rates and Efficiency of Collective Variables from Time-Dependent Biased Simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 13 (32), pp. 7490 - 7496 (2022)
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Structure of a fully assembled tumor-specific T cell receptor ligated by pMHC. Cell 185 (17), pp. 3201 - 3213 (2022)
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Reversible bond kinetics from single-molecule force spectroscopy experiments close to equilibrium. Physical Review Research 4 (3), 033097 (2022)
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Small ionic radii limit time step in Martini 3 molecular dynamics simulations. The Journal of Chemical Physics 157 (3), 034101 (2022)
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Twisting DNA by salt. Nucleic Acids Research (London) 50 (10), pp. 5726 - 5739 (2022)
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AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores. Science 376 (6598), eabm9506 (2022)
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Kinase domain autophosphorylation rewires the activity and substrate specificity of CK1 enzymes. Molecular Cell 82 (11), pp. 2006 - 2020.e8 (2022)