Publications
2024
- Poudel, B. and Vanegas, J. M. Structural Rearrangement of the AT1 Receptor Modulated by Membrane Thickness and Tension. J. Phys. Chem. B 128 (39) 9470-9481. (2024) [PDF]
- Prignano, L. A., Stevens, M. J., Vanegas, J. M., Rempe, S. B., and Dempski, R. E. Metadynamics Simulations Reveal Mechanisms of Na+ and Ca2+ Transport in Two Open States of the Channelrhodopsin Chimera. PLOS One 19 (9), e0309553. (2024) [PDF]
- Leverant, C. J., Richards, D., Spoerke, E. D., Alcala, R., Jiang, Y.-B., Percival, S. J., Vanegas, J. M., and Rempe, S. B. Nanoconfinement of Carbon Dioxide within Interfacial Aqueous/Ionic Liquid Systems. Langmuir 40 (20), 10615–10622. (2024) [PDF]
- Kim, S. W., Elsayed, M. M., Nichols, N. S., Lakoba, T., Vanegas, J. M., Wexler, C., Kotov, V. N., and Del Maestro, A. Atomically Thin Superfluid and Solid Phases for Atoms on Strained Graphene. Phys. Rev. B 109 (6), 064512. (2024) [PDF]
2023
- Poudel, B., Monteith, H. L., Sammon, J. P., Whiting, J. J., Moorman, M. W., Vanegas, J. M., and Rempe, S. B. Energetics of High Temperature Degradation of Fentanyl into Primary and Secondary Products. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 25 (45), 30880–86. (2023) [PDF]
- Sharma, A., Leverant, C. J., Richards, D., Beamis, C. P., Spoerke, E. D., Percival, S. J., Rempe, S. L., and Vanegas, J. M. Transport and Energetics of Carbon Dioxide in Ionic Liquids at Aqueous Interfaces. J. Phys. Chem. B 127, 10573-10582. (2023) [PDF]
- Poudel, B., Rajeshwar T., R, and Vanegas, J. M. Membrane mediated mechanical stimuli produces distinct active-like states in the AT1 receptor. Nat. Commun. 14, 4690. (2023) [PDF]
- Sharma, A., Anishkin, A., Sukharev, S., and Vanegas, J. M. Tight hydrophobic core and flexible helices yield MscL with a high tension gating threshold and a membrane area mechanical strain buffer. Front. Chem. 11, 1159032. (2023) [PDF]
- Sharma, A., Chiang, R., Manginell, M., Nardi, I., Coker, E. N., Vanegas, J. M., Rempe, S. B., Bachand, G. D. Carbonic Anhydrase Robustness for Use in Nanoscale CO2 Capture Technologies. ACS Omega 8, 37830-37841. (2023) [PDF]
- Back, D., O'Donnell, T. J., Axt, K. K., Gurr, J. R., Vanegas, J. M., Williams, P. G., and Philmus, B. Identification, Heterologous Expression, and Characterization of the Tolypodiol Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Through an Integrated Approach. ACS Chem. Biol. 18, 1797–1807 (2023) [PDF]
- Kwok, E., Otto, S. C., Khuu, P., Carpenter, A. P., Codding, S. J., Reardon, P. N., Vanegas, J. M., Kumar, T. M., Kuykendall, C. J., Mehl, R. A., Baio, J., and Johnson, C. P. The Dysferlin C2A Domain Binds PI(4,5)P2 and Penetrates Membranes. J. Mol. Biol. 435, 168193 (2023) [PDF]
- Pirhadi, E., Vanegas, J. M., Farin, M., Schertzer, J. W., and Yong, X. Effect of Local Stress on Accurate Modeling of Bacterial Outer Membranes Using All-Atom Molecular Dynamics. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 19 (1), 363-372 (2023) [PDF]
- Elsayed, M. M., Kim, S. W. Vanegas, J. M., and Kotov, V. N. Polarization Charge around Impurities in Two-Dimensional Anisotropic Dirac Systems. Phys. Rev. B 108 (24), 245414 (2023) [PDF]
2022
- Vanegas, J. M., Peterson, D., Lakoba, T., and Kotov, V. N. Spinodal de-wetting of light liquids on graphene. J. Phys. Condens. Mat. 34, 175001 (2022) [PDF]
- Del Maestro, A. G., Wexler, C., Vanegas, J. M., Lakoba, T., and Kotov, V. N. A Perspective on Collective Properties of Atoms on 2D Materials. Adv. Electron. Mater., 8, 202100607 (2022) [PDF]
2021
- Yu, J., Lauricella, E., Elsayed, M., Shepherd Jr., K., Nichols, N. S., Lombardi, T., Kim, S.-W., Wexler, C., Vanegas, J. M., Lakoba, T., Kotov, V. N., and Del Maestro, A. G. Two-Dimensional Bose-Hubbard Model for Helium on Graphene. Phys. Rev. B 103, 235414 (2021) [PDF]
- **Rajeshwar T., R., Anishkin, A., Sukharev, S. and Vanegas, J.M. Mechanical Activation of MscL Revealed by a Locally Distributed Tension Molecular Dynamics Approach. Biophys. J. 19, 232-242 (2021) [PDF] **Highlighted under 'New and Notable' in the Biophys. J. January 2021 issue (see here).
2020
- Winkeljohn, C. M., Himberg, B., and Vanegas, J.M. Balance of Solvent and Chain Interactions Determines the Local Stress State of Simulated Membranes. J. Phys. Chem. B 124, 32, 6963–6971 (2020) [PDF]
- Lubkowski, J., Vanegas, J. M., Chan, W.-K., Lorenzi, P. L., Weinstein, J. N., Sukharev, S., Fushman, D., Rempe, S. B., Anishkin, A., and Wlodawer, A. The mechanism of catalysis by L-asparaginase. Biochemistry 59, 1927-1945 (2020) [PDF]
2019
- Chaudhari, M. I., Vanegas, J. M., Pratt, L. R., Muralidharan, A., and Rempe, S. B. Hydration Mimicry by Membrane Ion Channels Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 71, 1-25 (2020) [PDF]
- Torres-Sanchez, A., Vanegas, J. M., Purohit, P. K., Arroyo, M. Combined molecular/continuum modeling reveals the role of friction during fast unfolding of coiled-coil proteins Soft Matter 15, 4961-4975 (2019) [PDF]
2018
- Wen, P.-C., Vanegas, J. M., Rempe, S. B. and Tajkhorshid, E. Probing key elements of teixobactin–lipid II interactions in membranes Chem. Sci. 9, 6997-7008 (2018) [PDF]
- Fu, Y., Jiang, Y., Dunphy, D., Xiong, H., Coker, E., Chou, S., Zhang, H., Vanegas, J. M., Croissant, J., Cecchi, J., Rempe, S. B., and Brinker, C. J. Ultra-thin, enzymatic, nano-stabilized liquid membrane for CO2 separation. Nature Commun. 9, 990 (2018) [PDF]
- Vanegas, J. M., Heinrich, F., Rogers, D. M., Carson, B. D., La Bauve, S., Vernon, B. C., Akgun, B., Satija, S., Zheng, A., Kielian, M., Rempe, S. B., and Kent, M. S. Study of Dengue E insertion into lipid bilayers by neutron reflectivity and molecular dynamics simulations. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1860, 1216 – 1230 (2018) [PDF]
2016
- Torres-Sanchez, A., Vanegas, J. M., and Arroyo, M. Geometric derivation of the microscopic stress: A covariant central force decomposition. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 93, 224 – 239 (2016) [PDF]
2015
- Torres-Sanchez, A., Vanegas, J. M., and Arroyo, M. Examining the mechanical equilibrium of microscopic stresses in molecular simulations. Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 258102 (2015). [PDF]
- Anishkin, A., Vanegas, J. M., Rogers, D. M., Lorenzi, P. L., Chan, W. K., Purwaha, P., Weinstein, J. N., Sukharev, S., and Rempe, S. B. Catalytic role of the substrate defines specificity of therapeutic L-asparaginase. J. Mol. Biol. 427, (17), 2867–2885 (2015) [PDF]
2014
- Vanegas, J. M. and Arroyo, M. Force transduction and lipid binding in MscL: A continuum-molecular approach. PLoS ONE, 9 (12), e113947. (2014) [PDF]
- Vanegas, J. M., Torres-Sanchez, A., and Arroyo, M. Importance of force decomposition for local stress calculations in biomembrane molecular simulations. J. Chem. Theory Comput., 10, 691-702. (2014) [PDF]
2012
- Vanegas, J. M., Contreras, M. F., Faller, R., and Longo, M. L. Role of unsaturated lipid and ergosterol in ethanol tolerance of model yeast biomembranes. Biophys. J., 102, 507-516. (2012) [PDF]
2011
- Vanegas, J. M., Longo, M. L., and Faller, R. Crystalline, ordered and disordered lipid membranes: Convergence of stress profiles due to ergosterol. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 3720-3723. (2011) [PDF]
2010
- Vanegas, J. M., Faller, R., and Longo, M. L. Influence of ethanol on lipid/sterol membranes: Phase diagram construction from AFM imaging. Langmuir, 26, 10415-10418. (2010) [PDF]
2009
- Goksu, I., Vanegas, J. M., Blanchette, C. D., Lin, W-C., and Longo, M. L. AFM for structure and dynamics of biomembranes. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1788, 254-266. (2009) [PDF]
Patents
- Michael S. Kent, Susan L. Rempe, Juan M. Vanegas. US11197854B1 - Inhibitors for targeting flaviviruses.
- Susan L. Rempe, Ying-Bing Jiang, Juan M. Vanegas, Jeffrey C. Brinker, Joseph L. Cecchi. US20200047132A1 - Enzymatically active high-flux selectively gas-permeable membranes for enhanced oil recovery and carbon capture.