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List of works by Luís M. S. Loura

A photophysical study of the polyene antibiotic filipin. Self-aggregation and filipin--ergosterol interaction.

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Absence of clustering of phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)-bisphosphate in fluid phosphatidylcholine

scientific article published on 21 April 2006

Advanced FRET methodologies: protein-lipid selectivity detection and quantification

scientific article published on 01 January 2012

Behavior of fluorescent cholesterol analogues dehydroergosterol and cholestatrienol in lipid bilayers: a molecular dynamics study

scientific article published on 06 May 2013

Behaviour of NBD-head group labelled phosphatidylethanolamines in POPC bilayers: a molecular dynamics study

scientific article published on 01 August 2015

Binding assays of inhibitors towards selected V-ATPase domains

scientific article published on 21 July 2006

Characterization of DNA/lipid complexes by fluorescence resonance energy transfer.

scientific article published on November 2003

Characterization of peptide-induced morphological alterations in membranes by fluorescence resonance energy transfer

scientific article published on January 2009

Cholesterol modulates the organization of the gammaM4 transmembrane domain of the muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

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Ciprofloxacin interactions with bacterial protein OmpF: modelling of FRET from a multi-tryptophan protein trimer.

scientific article published on 9 August 2007

Dehydroergosterol structural organization in aqueous medium and in a model system of membranes

scientific article published on May 1997

Dependence of M13 major coat protein oligomerization and lateral segregation on bilayer composition

scientific article published on October 2003

Diphenylhexatriene membrane probes DPH and TMA-DPH: A comparative molecular dynamics simulation study.

scientific article published on 27 July 2016

Effect of amphipathic HIV fusion inhibitor peptides on POPC and POPC/cholesterol membrane properties: a molecular simulation study.

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

Effect of ionic strength and presence of serum on lipoplexes structure monitorized by FRET

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Electrostatically driven lipid-protein interaction: Answers from FRET

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Electrostatically driven lipid–lysozyme mixed fibers display a multilamellar structure without amyloid features

scientific article published on 01 February 2014

Exclusion of a cholesterol analog from the cholesterol-rich phase in model membranes.

scientific article published in April 2001

FRET analysis of domain formation and properties in complex membrane systems

scientific article published on 30 October 2008

FRET in Membrane Biophysics: An Overview.

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FRET studies of lipid-protein aggregates related to amyloid-like fibers

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Fluid-fluid membrane microheterogeneity: a fluorescence resonance energy transfer study

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Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer to Characterize Cholesterol-Induced Domains

Fluorescence methods for lipoplex characterization.

scientific article published on 29 July 2011

Fluorescence of nitrobenzoxadiazole (NBD)-labeled lipids in model membranes is connected not to lipid mobility but to probe location.

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer to characterize cholesterol-induced domains

scientific article published on January 2007

Fluorescent membrane probes' behavior in lipid bilayers: insights from molecular dynamics simulations.

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Förster resonance energy transfer as a tool for quantification of protein-lipid selectivity.

scientific article published in January 2013

HIV fusion inhibitor peptide T-1249 is able to insert or adsorb to lipidic bilayers. Putative correlation with improved efficiency

scientific article published in November 2004

How to tackle the issues in free energy simulations of long amphiphiles interacting with lipid membranes: convergence and local membrane deformations.

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Influence of the sterol aliphatic side chain on membrane properties: a molecular dynamics study

scientific article published on 10 August 2015

Interaction of 7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl-labeled fatty amines with 1-palmitoyl, 2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine bilayers: a molecular dynamics study

scientific article published on 02 August 2011

Interaction of NBD-labelled fatty amines with liquid-ordered membranes: a combined molecular dynamics simulation and fluorescence spectroscopy study

scientific article published on 01 November 2015

Interaction of peptides with binary phospholipid membranes: application of fluorescence methodologies.

scientific article published in January 2003

Interaction of the Indole Class of Vacuolar H+-ATPase Inhibitors with Lipid Bilayers†

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

Is there a preferential interaction between cholesterol and tryptophan residues in membrane proteins?

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Lactose permease lipid selectivity using Förster resonance energy transfer.

scientific article published on 19 May 2010

Lateral distribution of NBD-PC fluorescent lipid analogs in membranes probed by molecular dynamics-assisted analysis of Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) and fluorescence quenching.

scientific article published on 8 November 2012

Lipid rafts have different sizes depending on membrane composition: a time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer study.

scientific article published on 12 January 2005

Liposome complexation efficiency monitored by FRET: effect of charge ratio, helper lipid and plasmid size

scientific article published on 30 January 2007

Location and dynamics of acyl chain NBD-labeled phosphatidylcholine (NBD-PC) in DPPC bilayers. A molecular dynamics and time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy study

scientific article published on 27 October 2006

Membrane lipid domains and rafts: current applications of fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy and imaging.

scientific article published on 03 August 2008

Membrane microheterogeneity: Förster resonance energy transfer characterization of lateral membrane domains

scientific article published on 21 October 2009

Membrane protein-lipid selectivity: enhancing sensitivity for modeling FRET data.

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Modeling FRET to investigate the selectivity of lactose permease of Escherichia coli for lipids

scientific article published on 15 May 2014

Molecular dynamics simulation of HIV fusion inhibitor T-1249: insights on peptide-lipid interaction.

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Molecular dynamics simulations of T-20 HIV fusion inhibitor interacting with model membranes

scientific article published on 06 August 2011

NBD-labeled cholesterol analogues in phospholipid bilayers: insights from molecular dynamics

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

Non-Uniform Membrane Probe Distribution in Resonance Energy Transfer: Application to Protein–Lipid Selectivity

Nonequilibrium phenomena in the phase separation of a two-component lipid bilayer

scientific article published on February 2002

Orientation of nitro-group governs the fluorescence lifetime of nitrobenzoxadiazole (NBD)-labeled lipids in lipid bilayers

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Partition of membrane probes in a gel/fluid two-component lipid system: a fluorescence resonance energy transfer study

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Phosphatidylethanolamine-lactose permease interaction: a comparative study based on FRET.

scientific article published on 27 November 2012

Phospholipid-lactose permease interaction as reported by a head-labeled pyrene phosphatidylethanolamine: a FRET study.

scientific article published on 21 May 2013

Photophysical Behavior of a Dimeric Cyanine Dye (BOBO-1) Within Cationic Liposomes

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Pinched multilamellar structure of aggregates of lysozyme and phosphatidylserine-containing membranes revealed by FRET.

scientific article published on 25 July 2008

Quantification of Protein-Lipid Selectivity using FRET: Application to the M13 Major Coat Protein.

scientific article published on July 2004

Quantification of protein-lipid selectivity using FRET.

scientific article published on March 2010

Quantitative Assessment of Methods Used To Obtain Rate Constants from Molecular Dynamics Simulations—Translocation of Cholesterol across Lipid Bilayers

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

Recent developments in molecular dynamics simulations of fluorescent membrane probes.

scientific article published on 27 June 2011

Resonance energy transfer in a model system of membranes: application to gel and liquid crystalline phases

scientific article published on October 1996

Role of helix 0 of the N-BAR domain in membrane curvature generation.

scientific article published on 16 January 2008

Sensing hydration and behavior of pyrene in POPC and POPC/cholesterol bilayers: a molecular dynamics study

scientific article published on 26 December 2012

Sifuvirtide screens rigid membrane surfaces. establishment of a correlation between efficacy and membrane domain selectivity among HIV fusion inhibitor peptides.

scientific article published on 15 April 2008

Simple estimation of Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) orientation factor distribution in membranes

scientific article published on 19 November 2012

Structure and dynamics of the gammaM4 transmembrane domain of the acetylcholine receptor in lipid bilayers: insights into receptor assembly and function.

scientific article published in July 2006

T-20 and T-1249 HIV fusion inhibitors' structure and conformation in solution: a molecular dynamics study

scientific article published in April 2008

The Secret Lives of Fluorescent Membrane Probes as Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

scientific article published on 28 July 2020