Virginie Dufresne

X-ray structures of general anaesthetics bound to a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel

Hugues Nury, Catherine Van Renterghem, Yun Weng et al. · Nature · 2011 · 416 citations · Full text

Medicine, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology +16

Molecular tuning of fast gating in pentameric ligand-gated ion channels

Thomas Grütter, Lia Prado de Carvalho, Virginie Dufresne et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2005 · 121 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

Pore conformations and gating mechanism of a Cys-loop receptor

Yoav Paas, Gilad Gibor, Régis Grailhe et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2005 · 71 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Biophysics, Neuroscience +17

A chimera encoding the fusion of an acetylcholine-binding protein to an ion channel is stabilized in a state close to the desensitized form of ligand-gated ion channels

Thomas Grütter, Lia Prado de Carvalho, Virginie Dufresne et al. · Comptes Rendus Biologies · 2005 · 37 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +15

Electron microscopic evidence for nucleation and growth of 3D acetylcholine receptor microcrystals in structured lipid–detergent matrices

Yoav Paas, Jean Cartaud, Michel Recouvreur et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2003 · 34 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Biophysics +12