Michael C. Pitman

3.4k citations

47 papers · 2.4k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 22

Molecular Biology top 5%
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 2%
Immunology top 10%
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 10%
Materials Chemistry

Co-authors: Scott E. Feller Alan Grossfield Benjamin P. Thornton Václav Větvička G D Ross Rachel Goldman Adri C. T. van Duin Frank Suits
Topics: Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (21 papers)Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (17 papers)Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers)
Cited by: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Molecular Biology Hardware and Architecture
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal of the American Chemical Society Journal of Biological Chemistry
Partner nations: United States Russia Germany

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Michael C. Pitman

46 papers receiving 2.4k citations

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Analysis of the sugar specificity and molecular location of the β-glucan-binding lectin site of complement receptor type 3 (CD11b/CD18)

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Activation Mediated by Internal Hydration 2019 ·Biophysical Journal ·Steven D.E. Fried,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Michael C. Pitman,Andrey V. Struts,(unknown),Michael F. Brown	4
2	Hydration Mediated G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Activation 2016 ·Biophysical Journal ·(unknown),(unknown),Andrey V. Struts,Michael C. Pitman,Michael F. Brown	5
3	Global Fold of Human Cannabinoid Type 2 Receptor Probed by Solid-State NMR and Molecular Dynamics Simulations 2015 ·Biophysical Journal ·Tomohiro Kimura,(unknown),Diane L. Lynch,Dow P. Hurst,Alan Grossfield,Michael C. Pitman,Patricia H. Reggio,Alexei Yeliseev,Klaus Gawrisch	13
4	A Usual G‐Protein‐Coupled Receptor in Unusual Membranes 2015 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·(unknown),Yunjiang Jiang,Wan Zheng,Liangju Kuang,(unknown),Michael C. Pitman,Michael F. Brown,Hongjun Liang	16
5	Structural Basis of G Protein-coupled Receptor-Gi Protein Interaction 2014 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·(unknown),Zhuanhong Qiao,Jian Cai,Diane L. Lynch,Alan Grossfield,(unknown),Dow P. Hurst,Michael C. Pitman,Zhao-Hui Song,Patricia H. Reggio	28
6	Performance of Hybrid Programming Models for Multiscale Cardiac Simulations: Preparing for Petascale Computation 2011 ·IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering ·Bernard J. Pope,Blake G. Fitch,Michael C. Pitman,John Jeremy Rice,Matthias Reumann	13
7	Orthogonal recursive bisection as data decomposition strategy for massively parallel cardiac simulations 2011 ·Biomedizinische Technik/Biomedical Engineering ·Matthias Reumann,Blake G. Fitch,Aleksandr Rayshubskiy,Michael C. Pitman,John Jeremy Rice	6
8	Petascale computation performance of lightweight multiscale cardiac models using hybrid programming models 2011 ·PubMed ·Bernard J. Pope,Blake G. Fitch,Michael C. Pitman,John Jeremy Rice,Matthias Reumann	1
9	A Lipid Pathway for Ligand Binding Is Necessary for a Cannabinoid G Protein-coupled Receptor 2010 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Dow P. Hurst,Alan Grossfield,Diane L. Lynch,Scott E. Feller,Tod D. Romo,Klaus Gawrisch,Michael C. Pitman,Patricia H. Reggio	175
10	Binding of Antimicrobial Lipopeptides To Lipid Bilayers Characterized By Microsecond Molecular Dynamics Simulations 2010 ·Biophysical Journal ·(unknown),Tod D. Romo,Michael C. Pitman,Alan Grossfield	1
11	Secondary-Structure Analysis of Human Peripheral Cannabinoid Receptor CB2 Based on Solid-State 13C-,15N-MAS NMR and Molecular Dynamics Simulations 2010 ·Biophysical Journal ·Tomohiro Kimura,(unknown),Diane L. Lynch,Dow P. Hurst,Alan Grossfield,Michael C. Pitman,Patricia H. Reggio,Alexei Yeliseev,Klaus Gawrisch	1
12	Concerted Interconversion between Ionic Lock Substates of the β2 Adrenergic Receptor Revealed by Microsecond Timescale Molecular Dynamics 2010 ·Biophysical Journal ·Tod D. Romo,Alan Grossfield,Michael C. Pitman	59
13	A Microsecond Time Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation of B2AR in a Membrane 2009 ·Biophysical Journal ·Tod D. Romo,Alan Grossfield,Michael C. Pitman,Xavier Deupí,Arnau Cordomí,Brian K. Kobilka	1
14	Structural And Dynamic Effects Of Cholesterol At Preferred Sites Of Interaction With Rhodopsin Identified From Microsecond Length Molecular Dynamics Simulations 2009 ·Biophysical Journal ·George Khelashvili,Alan Grossfield,Scott E. Feller,Michael C. Pitman,Harel Weinstein	77
15	Structural and dynamic effects of cholesterol at preferred sites of interaction with rhodopsin identified from microsecond length molecular dynamics simulations 2008 ·Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·George Khelashvili,Alan Grossfield,Scott E. Feller,Michael C. Pitman,Harel Weinstein	96
16	Internal Hydration Increases during Activation of the G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin 2008 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Alan Grossfield,Michael C. Pitman,Scott E. Feller,Olivier Soubias,Klaus Gawrisch	119
17	Convergence of molecular dynamics simulations of membrane proteins 2007 ·Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Alan Grossfield,Scott E. Feller,Michael C. Pitman	146
18	Dynamic Structure of Retinylidene Ligand of Rhodopsin Probed by Molecular Simulations 2007 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·(unknown),Alan Grossfield,Scott E. Feller,Michael C. Pitman,Michael F. Brown	34
19	Blue Matter, an application framework for molecular simulation on Blue Gene 2003 ·Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing ·Blake G. Fitch,Robert S. Germain,M. Mendell,Jed W. Pitera,Michael C. Pitman,Aleksandr Rayshubskiy,Yuk Y. Sham,Frank Suits,William C. Swope,T. J. Christopher Ward,(unknown),Ruhong Zhou	53
20	FLASHFLOOD: A 3D Field-based similarity search and alignment method for flexible molecules 2001 ·Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design ·Michael C. Pitman,Wolfgang Huber,Hans W. Horn,A. Krämer,Julia E. Rice,William C. Swope	19

About Michael C. Pitman

Michael C. Pitman is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Hardware and Architecture and Molecular Biology, having authored 47 papers that have together received 2.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (21 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (17 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (665 citations), Molecular Biology (1.5k citations) and Hardware and Architecture (84 citations). Michael C. Pitman has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Russia and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Scott E. Feller, Alan Grossfield, Benjamin P. Thornton, Václav Větvička, G D Ross, Rachel Goldman, Adri C. T. van Duin, Frank Suits, Klaus Gawrisch and Tod D. Romo. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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