Computational Evaluation of a Biomimetic Kinetic Façade Inspired by the Venus Flytrap for Daylight and Glare Performance by Fataneh Farmani, Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Morteza Khalaji Assadi, Soroush Hassanzadeh

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Inference of mechanical forces through 3D reconstruction of the closing motion in venus flytrap leaves by Satoru Tsugawa, Hiroki Asakawa, Michiko Hirata, Tomonobu Nonoyama, Zichen Kang, Masatsugu Toyota, Hiraku Suda

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Association of Acute Interstitial Nephritis with Carnivora, a Venus Flytrap Extract, in a 30-Year-Old Man with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma by Susan Ziolkowski, Catherine Moore

“…The patient had taken several medications including a higher dose of Carnivora, a Venus flytrap extract, composed of numerous amino acids. …”
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Mechanism of Motile Plants and Robots Inspired by Plants by Xiangli Zeng, Keisuke Morishima

“…Here, three different motile plants, bird of paradise (<i>Strelitzia reginae</i>), the waterwheel plant (<i>Aldrovanda vesiculosa</i>), and the Venus flytrap (<i>Dionaea muscipula</i>), are introduced. …”
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A cretaceous fly trap? remarkable abdominal modification in a fossil wasp by Qiong Wu, Lars Vilhelmsen, Xiaoqin Li, De Zhuo, Dong Ren, Taiping Gao

“…Nothing similar is known from any other insect; the rounded abdominal apparatus, combined with the setae along the edges, is reminiscent of a Venus flytrap. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that the new family is a separate lineage close to the base of Chrysidoidea. …”
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Bioinspired learning and memory in ionogels through fast response and slow relaxation dynamics of ions by Ning Zhou, Ting Cui, Zhouyue Lei, Peiyi Wu

“…Notably, the ionogels enable a robotic arm to mimic the selective capture behavior of a Venus flytrap. This work bridges the gap between biological intelligence and artificial systems, offering promising applications in bioinspired, energy-efficient sensing, learning, and memory.…”
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Investigating the interaction between umami peptides and umami receptor T1R1/T1R3-VFT: a computational approach by Hengli Meng, Zhiyong Cui, Yingqiu Li, Yanyang Yu, Shui Jiang, Yuan Liu

“…In this study, a computer simulation method was used to investigate the mechanism of interaction between umami peptides and T1R1/T1R3-Venus-flytrap domain (VFT) receptor. The binding site, conformational changes, and binding free energy between umami peptides and T1R1/T1R3-VFT were analyzed through molecular modeling, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics simulations. …”
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Role of Ca2+ and L-Phe in regulating functional cooperativity of disease-associated "toggle" calcium-sensing receptor mutations. by Chen Zhang, Nagaraju Mulpuri, Fadil M Hannan, M Andrew Nesbit, Rajesh V Thakker, Donald Hamelberg, Edward M Brown, Jenny J Yang

“…Mutations at the hinge region of the N-terminal Venus flytrap domain (VFTD) produce either receptor inactivation (L173P, P221Q) or activation (L173F, P221L) related to hypercalcemic or hypocalcemic disorders. …”
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Steviol rebaudiosides bind to four different sites of the human sweet taste receptor (T1R2/T1R3) complex explaining confusing experiments by Shuang Hao, Brian Guthrie, Soo-Kyung Kim, Sergej Balanda, Jan Kubicek, Babar Murtaza, Naim A. Khan, Pouyan Khakbaz, Judith Su, William A. Goddard

“…Abstract Sucrose provides both sweetness and energy by binding to both Venus flytrap domains (VFD) of the heterodimeric sweet taste receptor (T1R2/T1R3). …”
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Inosine-5′-monophosphate interacts with the TAS1R3 subunit to enhance sweet taste detection by Christine Belloir, Lucie Moitrier, Adeline Karolkowski, Nicolas Poirier, Fabrice Neiers, Loïc Briand

“…Umami and sweet taste detection is mediated by the activation of the TAS1R1/TAS1R3 and TAS1R2/TAS1R3 receptors, respectively. TAS1R2-Venus flytrap domain (VFT) constitutes the primary ligand-binding site for most of the sweeteners whereas TAS1R1-VFT contains the orthosteric binding site for umami compounds. …”
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