Michael C. Pitman

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Michael C. Pitman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael C. Pitman has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Michael C. Pitman's work include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (21 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (17 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers). Michael C. Pitman is often cited by papers focused on Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (21 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (17 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers). Michael C. Pitman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Germany. Michael C. Pitman's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

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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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael C. Pitman United States	22	1.5k	665	223	203	194	47	2.4k
Joshua Buckner United States	4	2.1k 1.3×	299 0.4×	151 0.7×	237 1.2×	253 1.3×	5	2.9k
Jong Cheol Jeong United States	9	2.4k 1.5×	299 0.4×	160 0.7×	228 1.1×	257 1.3×	19	3.3k
Scott A. Hollingsworth United States	17	2.0k 1.3×	516 0.8×	120 0.5×	112 0.6×	398 2.1×	31	3.2k
José D. Faraldo‐Gómez United States	37	3.2k 2.1×	299 0.4×	183 0.8×	249 1.2×	284 1.5×	92	4.1k
Vincent Raussens Belgium	32	2.5k 1.6×	313 0.5×	120 0.5×	182 0.9×	315 1.6×	76	4.2k
Huan Rui United States	21	2.7k 1.8×	409 0.6×	126 0.6×	352 1.7×	219 1.1×	39	3.5k
Martin Jakab Austria	23	3.2k 2.0×	474 0.7×	284 1.3×	382 1.9×	99 0.5×	66	4.5k
Suren A. Tatulian United States	34	2.5k 1.6×	248 0.4×	326 1.5×	386 1.9×	224 1.2×	93	3.6k
Jianping Wu China	31	3.7k 2.4×	859 1.3×	194 0.9×	75 0.4×	255 1.3×	110	5.1k

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Fried, Steven D.E., et al.. (2019). G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Activation Mediated by Internal Hydration. Biophysical Journal. 116(3). 207a–207a. 4 indexed citations

Struts, Andrey V., et al.. (2016). Hydration Mediated G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Activation. Biophysical Journal. 110(3). 83a–83a. 5 indexed citations

Kimura, Tomohiro, Diane L. Lynch, Dow P. Hurst, et al.. (2015). Global Fold of Human Cannabinoid Type 2 Receptor Probed by Solid-State NMR and Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Biophysical Journal. 108(2). 251a–251a. 13 indexed citations

Jiang, Yunjiang, Wan Zheng, Liangju Kuang, et al.. (2015). A Usual G‐Protein‐Coupled Receptor in Unusual Membranes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(2). 588–592. 16 indexed citations

Qiao, Zhuanhong, Jian Cai, Diane L. Lynch, et al.. (2014). Structural Basis of G Protein-coupled Receptor-Gi Protein Interaction. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(29). 20259–20272. 28 indexed citations

Pope, Bernard J., Blake G. Fitch, Michael C. Pitman, John Jeremy Rice, & Matthias Reumann. (2011). Performance of Hybrid Programming Models for Multiscale Cardiac Simulations: Preparing for Petascale Computation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 58(10). 2965–2969. 13 indexed citations

Reumann, Matthias, Blake G. Fitch, Aleksandr Rayshubskiy, Michael C. Pitman, & John Jeremy Rice. (2011). Orthogonal recursive bisection as data decomposition strategy for massively parallel cardiac simulations. Biomedizinische Technik/Biomedical Engineering. 56(3). 129–145. 6 indexed citations

Pope, Bernard J., Blake G. Fitch, Michael C. Pitman, John Jeremy Rice, & Matthias Reumann. (2011). Petascale computation performance of lightweight multiscale cardiac models using hybrid programming models. PubMed. 2011. 433–436. 1 indexed citations

Hurst, Dow P., Alan Grossfield, Diane L. Lynch, et al.. (2010). A Lipid Pathway for Ligand Binding Is Necessary for a Cannabinoid G Protein-coupled Receptor. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(23). 17954–17964. 175 indexed citations

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Romo, Tod D., et al.. (2010). Binding of Antimicrobial Lipopeptides To Lipid Bilayers Characterized By Microsecond Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Biophysical Journal. 98(3). 81a–81a. 1 indexed citations

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Kimura, Tomohiro, Diane L. Lynch, Dow P. Hurst, et al.. (2010). Secondary-Structure Analysis of Human Peripheral Cannabinoid Receptor CB2 Based on Solid-State 13C-,15N-MAS NMR and Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Biophysical Journal. 98(3). 625a–625a. 1 indexed citations

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Romo, Tod D., Alan Grossfield, & Michael C. Pitman. (2010). Concerted Interconversion between Ionic Lock Substates of the β2 Adrenergic Receptor Revealed by Microsecond Timescale Molecular Dynamics. Biophysical Journal. 98(1). 76–84. 59 indexed citations

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Romo, Tod D., Alan Grossfield, Michael C. Pitman, et al.. (2009). A Microsecond Time Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation of B2AR in a Membrane. Biophysical Journal. 96(3). 340a–340a. 1 indexed citations

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Khelashvili, George, Alan Grossfield, Scott E. Feller, Michael C. Pitman, & Harel Weinstein. (2009). Structural And Dynamic Effects Of Cholesterol At Preferred Sites Of Interaction With Rhodopsin Identified From Microsecond Length Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Biophysical Journal. 96(3). 678a–678a. 77 indexed citations

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Khelashvili, George, Alan Grossfield, Scott E. Feller, Michael C. Pitman, & Harel Weinstein. (2008). Structural and dynamic effects of cholesterol at preferred sites of interaction with rhodopsin identified from microsecond length molecular dynamics simulations. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 76(2). 403–417. 96 indexed citations

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Grossfield, Alan, Michael C. Pitman, Scott E. Feller, Olivier Soubias, & Klaus Gawrisch. (2008). Internal Hydration Increases during Activation of the G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin. Journal of Molecular Biology. 381(2). 478–486. 119 indexed citations

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Grossfield, Alan, Scott E. Feller, & Michael C. Pitman. (2007). Convergence of molecular dynamics simulations of membrane proteins. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 67(1). 31–40. 146 indexed citations

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Grossfield, Alan, et al.. (2007). Dynamic Structure of Retinylidene Ligand of Rhodopsin Probed by Molecular Simulations. Journal of Molecular Biology. 372(4). 906–917. 34 indexed citations

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Fitch, Blake G., Robert S. Germain, M. Mendell, et al.. (2003). Blue Matter, an application framework for molecular simulation on Blue Gene. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 63(7-8). 759–773. 53 indexed citations

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Pitman, Michael C., Wolfgang Huber, Hans W. Horn, et al.. (2001). FLASHFLOOD: A 3D Field-based similarity search and alignment method for flexible molecules. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 15(7). 587–612. 19 indexed citations

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