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Philippe Derreumaux

Philippe Derreumaux

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Chemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
14853
World Ranking
6963
National Ranking
1

Overview

Philippe Derreumaux is affiliated with Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans a variety of subfields including molecular biology, physiology, biomaterials, computational theory and mathematics, and materials chemistry.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Enzyme Structure and Function

Among notable recent publications are:

  • "Amyloid Oligomers: A Joint Experimental/Computational Perspective on Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Type II Diabetes, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis," 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • "PEP-FOLD4: a pH-dependent force field for peptide structure prediction in aqueous solution," 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Structures of the intrinsically disordered Aβ, tau and α-synuclein proteins in aqueous solution from computer simulations," 2020, Biophysical Chemistry
  • "Tau R3-R4 Domain Dimer of the Wild Type and Phosphorylated Ser356 Sequences. I. In Solution by Atomistic Simulations," 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • "Molecular mechanism of ultrasound interaction with a blood brain barrier model," 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics

Their research has appeared frequently in several key scientific venues including:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (15 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (11 publications)
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics (5 publications)
  • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics (4 publications)
  • ACS Chemical Neuroscience (2 publications)

Philippe Derreumaux has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, notably:

  • Phuong H. Nguyen (29 joint publications)
  • Fabio Sterpone (23 joint publications)
  • Simone Melchionna (15 joint publications)
  • Štěpán Timr (13 joint publications)
  • Sơn Tùng Ngô (8 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • PEP-FOLD3: faster de novo structure prediction for linear peptides in solution and in complex.

    Alexis Lamiable;Pierre Thévenet;Julien Rey;Marek Vavrusa

  • PEP-FOLD: an updated de novo structure prediction server for both linear and disulfide bonded cyclic peptides

    Pierre Thévenet;Yimin Shen;Julien Maupetit;Frédéric Guyon

  • Improved PEP-FOLD Approach for Peptide and Miniprotein Structure Prediction.

    Yimin Shen;Yimin Shen;Julien Maupetit;Julien Maupetit;Philippe Derreumaux;Philippe Derreumaux;Philippe Derreumaux;Pierre Tufféry;Pierre Tufféry

  • Amyloid β Protein and Alzheimer’s Disease: When Computer Simulations Complement Experimental Studies

    Jessica Nasica-Labouze;Phuong H. Nguyen;Fabio Sterpone;Olivia Berthoumieu

  • Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Phuong H. Nguyen;Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy;Bikash R. Sahoo;Jie Zheng

  • PEP-FOLD: an online resource for de novo peptide structure prediction

    Julien Maupetit;Philippe Derreumaux;Pierre Tuffery

  • Inhibition of protein aggregation and amyloid formation by small molecules.

    Andrew J Doig;Philippe Derreumaux;Philippe Derreumaux

  • A fast method for large-scale de novo peptide and miniprotein structure prediction.

    Julien Maupetit;Philippe Derreumaux;Pierre Tufféry

  • A coarse‐grained protein force field for folding and structure prediction

    Julien Maupetit;P. Tuffery;Philippe Derreumaux

  • Molecular mechanism of the inhibition of EGCG on the Alzheimer Aβ(1-42) dimer.

    Tong Zhang;Jian Zhang;Philippe Derreumaux;Philippe Derreumaux;Yuguang Mu

  • Why Is Research on Amyloid-β Failing to Give New Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease?

    Andrew J. Doig;Maria P. del Castillo-Frias;Olivia Berthoumieu;Olivia Berthoumieu;Bogdan Tarus

  • Carbon nanotube inhibits the formation of β-sheet-rich oligomers of the Alzheimer's amyloid-β(16-22) peptide.

    Huiyu Li;Yin Luo;Philippe Derreumaux;Guanghong Wei

  • Effects of all-atom force fields on amyloid oligomerization: replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations of the Aβ16–22 dimer and trimer

    Phuong H. Nguyen;Phuong H. Nguyen;Mai Suan Li;Philippe Derreumaux;Philippe Derreumaux

  • The OPEP protein model: from single molecules, amyloid formation, crowding and hydrodynamics to DNA/RNA systems.

    Fabio Sterpone;Simone Melchionna;Pierre Tuffery;Samuela Pasquali

  • Understanding amyloid fibril nucleation and aβ oligomer/drug interactions from computer simulations.

    Phuong Nguyen;Philippe Derreumaux;Philippe Derreumaux

  • Pathway Complexity of Alzheimer's β-Amyloid Aβ16-22 Peptide Assembly

    Sébastien Santini;Guanghong Wei;Normand Mousseau;Philippe Derreumaux

  • In Silico Assembly of Alzheimer's Aβ16-22 Peptide into β-Sheets

    Sébastien Santini;Normand Mousseau;Philippe Derreumaux

  • HiRE-RNA: a high resolution coarse-grained energy model for RNA.

    Samuela Pasquali;Philippe Derreumaux

  • High-Resolution Structures of the Amyloid-β 1-42 Dimers from the Comparison of Four Atomistic Force Fields.

    Viet Hoang Man;Phuong H. Nguyen;Philippe Derreumaux

  • Role of the Region 23-28 in Aβ Fibril Formation: Insights from Simulations of the Monomers and Dimers of Alzheimers Peptides Aβ40 and Aβ42

    Adrien Melquiond;Xiao Dong;Normand Mousseau;Philippe Derreumaux

  • From polypeptide sequences to structures using Monte Carlo simulations and an optimized potential

    Philippe Derreumaux

Frequent Co-Authors

Guanghong Wei
Guanghong Wei Fudan University
Peter Faller
Peter Faller University of Strasbourg
Junmei Wang
Junmei Wang University of Pittsburgh
Andrew J. Doig
Andrew J. Doig University of Manchester
David J. Wales
David J. Wales University of Cambridge
Birgit Strodel
Birgit Strodel Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jiří Šponer
Jiří Šponer Masaryk University
Sauro Succi
Sauro Succi Italian Institute of Technology
Nigel M. Hooper
Nigel M. Hooper Manchester Academic Health Science Centre
Claire Rampon
Claire Rampon Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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