Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

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Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Molecular Biology, 67 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 15 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (60 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (37 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (28 papers). Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (60 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (37 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (28 papers). Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Romania. Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar's co-authors include Marcus Elstner, Minoru Sugihara, P. Entel, Tetsuji Okada, Volker Buß, Jeremy C. Smith, Stephen H. White, Stefan Fischer, Coral del Val and Sándor Suhai and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar

104 papers receiving 2.9k citations

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The Retinal Conformation and its Environment in Rhodopsin in Light of a New 2.2 Å Crystal Structure

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar Germany	28	2.2k	1.6k	380	313	179	104	2.9k
Thomas Huber United States	34	3.2k 1.4×	1.1k 0.7×	224 0.6×	214 0.7×	153 0.9×	90	4.0k
David T. Lodowski United States	25	2.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	89 0.2×	217 0.7×	177 1.0×	41	3.3k
Alan Grossfield United States	32	2.8k 1.3×	822 0.5×	883 2.3×	414 1.3×	483 2.7×	81	3.9k
Jiayun Chen China	11	4.6k 2.1×	2.2k 1.4×	187 0.5×	244 0.8×	162 0.9×	25	5.1k
Ulrich Haupts Germany	22	1.7k 0.8×	948 0.6×	301 0.8×	370 1.2×	211 1.2×	28	2.8k
Ramona Schlesinger Germany	27	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	238 0.6×	219 0.7×	188 1.1×	76	2.3k
Irina D. Pogozheva United States	28	3.9k 1.8×	1.3k 0.8×	171 0.5×	291 0.9×	216 1.2×	83	4.9k
Dale F. Mierke United States	40	3.8k 1.7×	1.3k 0.8×	167 0.4×	557 1.8×	224 1.3×	180	5.1k
Andrei L. Lomize United States	28	4.0k 1.8×	1.1k 0.7×	268 0.7×	429 1.4×	238 1.3×	63	4.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bondar, Ana‐Nicoleta & Jeremy C. Smith. (2025). Bacteriorhodopsin proton-pumping mechanism: Successes and challenges in computational approaches. Biophysical Journal. 124(22). 3813–3826. 2 indexed citations

Bondar, Ana‐Nicoleta, Julie Dam, Zafiroula Georgoussi, et al.. (2024). ERNEST COST action overview on the (patho)physiology of GPCRs and orphan GPCRs in the nervous system. British Journal of Pharmacology. 182(14). 3178–3210. 4 indexed citations

Harris, Andrew, et al.. (2024). The retinal chromophore environment in an inward light-driven proton pump studied by solid-state NMR and hydrogen-bond network analysis. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(36). 24090–24108. 3 indexed citations

Morizumi, Takefumi, Hai Li, Elena G. Govorunova, et al.. (2023). Structures of channelrhodopsin paralogs in peptidiscs explain their contrasting K+ and Na+ selectivities. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4365–4365. 15 indexed citations

Karathanou, Konstantina, et al.. (2023). Graph-Based Analyses of Dynamic Water-Mediated Hydrogen-Bond Networks in Phosphatidylserine: Cholesterol Membranes. Biomolecules. 13(8). 1238–1238. 1 indexed citations

Govorunova, Elena G., Oleg A. Sineshchekov, Leonid S. Brown, Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar, & John L. Spudich. (2022). Structural Foundations of Potassium Selectivity in Channelrhodopsins. mBio. 13(6). e0303922–e0303922. 14 indexed citations

Krishnamurthy, Srinath, Marios Frantzeskos Sardis, Nikolaos Eleftheriadis, et al.. (2022). Preproteins couple the intrinsic dynamics of SecA to its ATPase cycle to translocate via a catch and release mechanism. Cell Reports. 38(6). 110346–110346. 12 indexed citations

Brown, Leonid S., et al.. (2022). Conserved hydrogen-bond motifs of membrane transporters and receptors. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1864(6). 183896–183896. 10 indexed citations

Karathanou, Konstantina & Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar. (2022). Algorithm to catalogue topologies of dynamic lipid hydrogen-bond networks. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1864(4). 183859–183859. 3 indexed citations

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Karathanou, Konstantina, et al.. (2020). Proton Binding at Protein and Membrane Interfaces. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 179a–179a. 1 indexed citations

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Val, Coral del & Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar. (2020). Diversity and sequence motifs of the bacterial SecA protein motor. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1862(10). 183319–183319. 3 indexed citations

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Harris, Andrew, et al.. (2017). Molecular details of the unique mechanism of chloride transport by a cyanobacterial rhodopsin. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(5). 3184–3199. 23 indexed citations

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Val, Coral del & Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar. (2017). Charged groups at binding interfaces of the PsbO subunit of photosystem II: A combined bioinformatics and simulation study. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1858(6). 432–441. 14 indexed citations

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Bondar, Ana‐Nicoleta, et al.. (2017). Motions of the SecA protein motor bound to signal peptide: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1860(2). 416–427. 10 indexed citations

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Bondar, Ana‐Nicoleta. (2016). Biophysical mechanism of rhomboid proteolysis: Setting a foundation for therapeutics. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 60. 46–51. 8 indexed citations

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Jardón‐Valadez, Eduardo, Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar, & Douglas J. Tobias. (2014). Electrostatic interactions and hydrogen bond dynamics in chloride pumping by halorhodopsin. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1837(12). 1964–1972. 8 indexed citations

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Val, Coral del, et al.. (2013). Channelrhodopsins: A bioinformatics perspective. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1837(5). 643–655. 12 indexed citations

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Andersson, Magnus, Ana‐Nicoleta Bondar, J. Alfredo Freites, et al.. (2012). Proton-Coupled Dynamics in Lactose Permease. Structure. 20(11). 1893–1904. 52 indexed citations

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Bondar, Ana‐Nicoleta & Holger Dau. (2012). Extended protein/water H-bond networks in photosynthetic water oxidation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1817(8). 1177–1190. 73 indexed citations

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Bondar, Ana‐Nicoleta, et al.. (2005). Mechanism of a Molecular Valve in the Halorhodopsin Chloride Pump. Structure. 13(4). 617–627. 36 indexed citations

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