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Dimitrios Fotiadis

Dimitrios Fotiadis

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
50
Citations
10679
World Ranking
17536
National Ranking
335

Overview

Dimitrios Fotiadis is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has a research focus primarily in the domain of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans a considerable range of subfields including Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Genetics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist has contributed substantially to several research topics, with notable emphasis on Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms, Enzyme Structure and Function, and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research.

Their recent publications illustrate the scope and diversity of their research interests:

  • "Synthetic Biology: Bottom-Up Assembly of Molecular Systems" (2022) published in Chemical Reviews
  • "SLC16 Family: From Atomic Structure to Human Disease" (2020) published in Trends in Biochemical Sciences
  • "Structures and dynamics of the novel S1/S2 protease cleavage site loop of the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein" (2020) published in Journal of Structural Biology X
  • "Cryo-EM structure and dynamics of the green-light absorbing proteorhodopsin" (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • "The Heavy Chain 4F2hc Modulates the Substrate Affinity and Specificity of the Light Chains LAT1 and LAT2" (2020) published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Dimitrios Fotiadis collaborates frequently with a number of researchers, including Zöhre Ucurum, Stephan Hirschi, Jean-Marc Jeckelmann, David Kalbermatter, and Daniel Harder.

Their research is regularly published in a variety of scientific venues. The most common among these include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Structural Biology X, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Atomic-force microscopy: Rhodopsin dimers in native disc membranes

    Dimitrios Fotiadis;Yan Liang;Slawomir Filipek;David A. Saperstein

  • The SLC3 and SLC7 families of amino acid transporters

    Dimitrios Fotiadis;Yoshikatsu Kanai;Manuel Palacín

  • Organization of the G Protein-coupled Receptors Rhodopsin and Opsin in Native Membranes

    Yan Liang;Dimitrios Fotiadis;Sławomir Filipek;David A. Saperstein

  • Imaging and manipulation of biological structures with the AFM

    Dimitrios Fotiadis;Simon Scheuring;Shirley A. Müller;Andreas Engel

  • Electrostatically Balanced Subnanometer Imaging of Biological Specimens by Atomic Force Microscope

    Daniel J. Müller;Dimitrios Fotiadis;Simon Scheuring;Shirley A. Müller

  • Cultivation strategies to enhance productivity of Pichia pastoris: A review

    Verena Looser;Béla Brühlmann;Fabian Bumbak;Chantal Stenger

  • Efficient Coupling of Transducin to Monomeric Rhodopsin in a Phospholipid Bilayer

    Matthew R. Whorton;Beata Elzbieta Jastrzebska;Paul Shin-Hyun Park;Dimitrios Fotiadis

  • Structure of the rhodopsin dimer: a working model for G-protein-coupled receptors.

    Dimitrios Fotiadis;Beata Elzbieta Jastrzebska;Ansgar Philippsen;Daniel J. Müller

  • The G protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin in the native membrane.

    Dimitrios Fotiadis;Yan Liang;Slawomir Filipek;David A Saperstein

  • Bacterial Na+‐ATP synthase has an undecameric rotor

    Henning Stahlberg;Daniel J Müller;Daniel J Müller;Kitaru Suda;Dimitrios Fotiadis

  • A concept for G protein activation by G protein-coupled receptor dimers: the transducin/rhodopsin interface.

    Slawomir Filipek;Krystiana A. Krzysko;Krystiana A. Krzysko;Dimitrios Fotiadis;Yan Liang

  • Molecular architecture of photosynthetic membranes in Rhodobacter sphaeroides: the role of PufX.

    C Alistair Siebert;Pu Qian;Dimitrios Fotiadis;Andreas Engel

  • Rhodopsin Signaling and Organization in Heterozygote Rhodopsin Knockout Mice

    Yan Liang;Dimitrios Fotiadis;Tadao Maeda;Akiko Maeda

  • Functional and structural characterization of rhodopsin oligomers.

    Beata Jastrzebska;Dimitrios Fotiadis;Geeng Fu Jang;Ronald E. Stenkamp

  • Surface tongue-and-groove contours on lens MIP facilitate cell-to-cell adherence.

    Dimitrios Fotiadis;Lorenz Hasler;Daniel J. Müller;Henning Stahlberg

  • Functional characterization of rhodopsin monomers and dimers in detergents

    Beata Jastrzebska;Tadao Maeda;Li Zhu;Dimitrios Fotiadis

  • Single-molecule studies of membrane proteins.

    Daniel J Müller;K Tanuj Sapra;Simon Scheuring;Alexej Kedrov

  • Reconstitution of water channel function of an aquaporin overexpressed and purified from Pichia pastoris.

    Maria Karlsson;Dimitrios Fotiadis;Sara Sjövall;Ingela Johansson

  • Structural characterization of two aquaporins isolated from native spinach leaf plasma membranes.

    Dimitrios Fotiadis;Paul Jenö;Thierry Mini;Sabine Wirtz

  • Efficient Coupling of Transducin to Monomeric Rhodopsin in a

    Matthew R. Whorton;Beata Jastrzebska;Dimitrios Fotiadis;Andreas Engel

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Engel
Andreas Engel University of Basel
Krzysztof Palczewski
Krzysztof Palczewski University of California, Irvine
Slawomir Filipek
Slawomir Filipek University of Warsaw
Manuel Palacín
Manuel Palacín Institute for Research in Biomedicine
Simon Scheuring
Simon Scheuring Cornell University
Hannelore Daniel
Hannelore Daniel Technical University of Munich
Shirley A. Müller
Shirley A. Müller University of Basel
Ronald E. Stenkamp
Ronald E. Stenkamp University of Washington
Wolfgang Meier
Wolfgang Meier University of Basel

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