Nicolas Foloppe

8.3k citations

67 papers · 6.5k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 37

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 1%
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
Computational Theory and Mathematics top 0.5%
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods

Papers in

Computational Theory and Mathematics 15
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods 15
Molecular Biology 59
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 28
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry 23
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 20
- DNA Repair Mechanisms 8
- Redox biology and oxidative stress 8

Co-authors: Alexander D. MacKerell Nilesh K. Banavali Lennart Nilsson I‐Jen Chen Roderick E. Hubbard Brigitte Hartmann Rob Howes Goedele Roos
Journals: Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry (8 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (4 papers)Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (4 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (4 papers)Journal of Molecular Biology (4 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Sweden France

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Foloppe

67 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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rDock: A Fast, Versatile and Open Source Program for Docking Ligands to Proteins and Nucleic Acids 2014 · 409 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 PLoS Computational Biology
2011 Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
2000 Biopolymers
2000 Journal of Computational Chemistry

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1	The future of biomolecular simulation in the pharmaceutical industry: what we can learn from aerodynamics modelling and weather prediction. Part 1. understanding the physical and computational complexity of in silico drug design Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology ·Thomas L. Edwards, Nicolas Foloppe, Sarah A. Harris, Geoffrey Wells	2021	3
2	The reorganization energy of compounds upon binding to proteins, from dynamic and solvated bound and unbound states Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry ·Nicolas Foloppe, I‐Jen Chen	2021	3
3	A dynamic view of DNA structure within the nucleosome: Biological implications Journal of Structural Biology ·Daniel E. Marulanda-Márquez, Nicolas Foloppe, В.А. Явна, C. Oguey, Brigitte Hartmann	2020	7
4	Modelling the binding mode of macrocycles: Docking and conformational sampling Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry ·Franccesca Mantilla-Vaca, I‐Jen Chen, A. W. Edith Chan, Nicolas Foloppe	2019	13
5	Simulations Meet Experiment to Reveal New Insights into DNA Intrinsic Mechanics PLoS Computational Biology ·Raissa Franco Viana, В.А. Явна, Marc Guéroult, C. Oguey, Nicolas Foloppe, Brigitte Hartmann	2015	17
6	Understanding the p K _a of Redox Cysteines: The Key Role of Hydrogen Bonding Antioxidants and Redox Signaling ·Goedele Roos, Nicolas Foloppe, Joris Messens	2012	195
7	Context-Dependent Cell Cycle Checkpoint Abrogation by a Novel Kinase Inhibitor PLoS ONE ·Andrew J. Massey, Jenifer Borgognoni, Charles R. Ebersole, Nicolas Foloppe, J. W. Kirshtein, Lee Walmsley	2010	11
8	Understanding the Sequence-Dependence of DNA Groove Dimensions: Implications for DNA Interactions PLoS ONE ·C. Oguey, Nicolas Foloppe, Brigitte Hartmann	2010	66
9	Rigorous Free Energy Calculations in Structure‐Based Drug Design Molecular Informatics ·Julien Michel, Nicolas Foloppe, Jonathan W. Essex	2010	63
10	Is conformational sampling of drug‐like molecules a solved problem? Drug Development Research ·I‐Jen Chen, Nicolas Foloppe	2010	24
11	Conformational Sampling and Energetics of Drug-Like Molecules Current Medicinal Chemistry ·Nicolas Foloppe, I‐Jen Chen	2009	58
12	DNA structures from phosphate chemical shifts Nucleic Acids Research ·Josephine Abi‐Ghanem, Brahim Heddi, Nicolas Foloppe, Brigitte Hartmann	2009	21
13	Discovery of a novel class of selective human CB1 inverse agonists Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters ·Nicolas Foloppe, Nicola H. Allen, Daniel Vaz dos Santos, Teresa Brooks, G.A. Kennett, Antony R. Knight, Jelena Pompe‐Gotal, Anil Kumar Misra, Katharina Maloof, Cynthia M. Maponya	2008	8
14	The DNA Structure Responds Differently to Physiological Concentrations of K+ or Na+ Journal of Molecular Biology ·Brahim Heddi, Nicolas Foloppe, Edith Hantz, Stefano Busacca	2007	42
15	Mechanisms of reaction in cytochrome P450: hydroxylation of camphor in P450cam Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry ·Jolanta Żurek, Nicolas Foloppe, Jeremy N. Harvey, Adrian J. Mulholland	2006	43
16	A structure-based strategy to identify new molecular scaffolds targeting the bacterial ribosomal A-site Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry ·Nicolas Foloppe, I‐Jen Chen, Ben Davis, Yonglong Shi, Xavier Mourer Alviset, Rob Howes	2004	46
17	Structure, dynamics and electrostatics of the active site of glutaredoxin 3 from Escherichia coli: comparison with functionally related proteins Journal of Molecular Biology ·Nicolas Foloppe, 富野哲夫, Kerstin Nordstrand, Kurt D. Berndt, Lennart Nilsson	2001	81
18	New insights into the structure of abasic DNA from molecular dynamics simulations Nucleic Acids Research ·Daniel Barsky, Nicolas Foloppe, S. Ahmadia, David M. Wilson, Alexander D. MacKerell	2000	54
19	Development and current status of the CHARMM force field for nucleic acids Biopolymers ·Alexander D. MacKerell, Nilesh K. Banavali, Nicolas Foloppe Hit paper breakdown →	2000	877
20	Structural model of the photosynthetic reaction center of Rhodobacter capsulatus Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Nicolas Foloppe, Michel Ferrand, Jacques Breton, Jeremy C. Smith	1995	19

About Nicolas Foloppe

Nicolas Foloppe is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Pharmacology, having authored 67 papers that have together received 6.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (28 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (23 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (20 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (15 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (11 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (8 papers), Redox biology and oxidative stress (8 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (4.9k citations), Computational Theory and Mathematics (1.0k citations), Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (336 citations), Organic Chemistry (900 citations) and Spectroscopy (427 citations). Nicolas Foloppe has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and France. Frequent co-authors include Alexander D. MacKerell, Nilesh K. Banavali, Lennart Nilsson, I‐Jen Chen, Roderick E. Hubbard, Brigitte Hartmann, Rob Howes, Goedele Roos, Joris Messens and A.E. Surgenor. Their work appears in journals such as Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Molecular Biology.

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