Mortaza Derakhshani-Molayousefi Source Confirmed

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Researcher

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

faculty

4 h-index 17 pubs 67 cited

Research Areas

Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior Protein Structure and Dynamics Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery Computational Drug Discovery Methods Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications

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Mortaza Derakhshani-Molayousefi's research investigates the molecular dynamics and conformational changes of biological systems, particularly focusing on lipid-protein interactions and the behavior of membrane components. His work explores how factors like cholesterol concentration affect the structure and function of lipid bilayers and proteins, such as metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 and multidrug resistance protein 1 (P-glycoprotein). Derakhshani-Molayousefi also examines the application of these insights to optimize drug delivery systems, specifically through the use of liposomes. He has published on topics including the characterization of amorphous shapes and the mesoscopic assembly of reverse micelles. His research network includes collaborators from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, such as Ugochi H. Isu and Mahmoud Moradi, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications. Derakhshani-Molayousefi has an h-index of 4 and has published 17 papers.

Metrics

  • h-index: 4
  • Publications: 17
  • Citations: 67

Selected Publications

  • BPS2025 - Exploring lipid-protein interactions and nucleotide binding in multidrug resistance protein 1: Insights from molecular dynamics and free energy perturbation simulations (2025) DOI
  • BPS2025 - Optimizing liposomal drug delivery systems through cholesterol dynamics: Insights from coarse-grained simulations (2025) DOI
  • Shape of AOT Reverse Micelles: The Mesoscopic Assembly Is More Than the Sum of the Parts (2024) DOI
  • Cholesterol Dependence of the Conformational Changes in Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 1 (2024) DOI
  • The effect of cholesterol concentration on planar and spherical lipid bilayers (2024) DOI
  • Structural effects of ALS-associated mutations on profilin (2023) DOI
  • Cholesterol dependence on the conformational changes of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 (mGLuR1) (2023) DOI
  • How to Characterize Amorphous Shapes: The Tale of a Reverse Micelle (2022) DOI
  • Characterizing the roles of chemo-mechanical couplings in the differential behavior of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein (2022) DOI
  • Structural dynamics of prefusion spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants (2022) DOI
  • How to Characterize Amorphous Shapes: The Tale of a Reverse Micelle (2021) DOI
  • How to Characterize Amorphous Shapes: The Tale of a Reverse Micelle (2021) DOI

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Ugochi H. Isu University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 4 shared publications Mahmoud Moradi University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 3 shared publications Adithya Polasa University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 3 shared publications Ehsan Khodadadi University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications Ehsaneh Khodadadi University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications Vivek Govind Kumar University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications Seyed Hamid Tabari University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications Shadi A. Badiee University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications

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