Publications
Computer Simulations of Proton Transport Through the M2 Channel of the Influenza A Virus. In: Viral Membrane Proteins: Structure, Function and Drug Design. Viral Membrane Proteins: Structure, Function and Drug Design. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers; 2004.
. A Computational Study of the Closed and Open States of the Influenza A M2 Proton Channel. Biophys J. 2005 ;89:2402-11.
. Computational Studies of Proton Transport through the M2 Channel. FEBS Lett. 2003 ;552:23-7.
. A Computer Simulation Study of the Hydrated Proton in a Synthetic Proton Channel. Biophys J. 2003 ;85:864-75.
. Flexible Simple Point-charge Water Model with Improved Liquid-State Properties. J Chem Phys. 2006 ;124:024503.
. Charge Delocalization in Proton Channels, II: The Synthetic LS2 Channel and Proton Selectivity. Biophys J. 2007 ;92:61-9.
. An Improved Multistate Empirical Valence Bond Model for Aqueous Proton Solvation and Transport. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2008 ;112:467-482.
. Proton Transfer Studied Using a Combined Ab Initio Reactive Potential Energy Surface with Quantum Path Integral Methodology. J. Chem. Theor. Comp. 2010 ;6:2566–2580.
Fascin and α-Actinin-bundled Networks Contain Intrinsic Structural Features That Drive Protein Sorting. Current Biology. 2016 ;26(20):2697–2706.
. Designing Free Energy Surfaces that Match Experimental Data with Metadynamics. J. Chem. Theor. Comp. 2015 ;11.
. Efficient and Minimal Method to Bias Molecular Simulations with Experimental Data. J. Chem. Theor. Comp. 2014 ;10(8):3023–3030.
. Improved Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics by Minimally Biasing with Experimental Data. J. Chem. Phys. 2017 ;146.
. Prion-like low complexity regions enable avid virus-host interactions during HIV-1 infection. Nat. Commun. 2022 ;13:5879.
Proton Induced Conformational and Hydration Dynamics in the Influenza A M2 Channel. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019 ;141(29):11667–11676.
. Influenza A M2 Inhibitor Binding Understood through Mechanisms of Excess Proton Stabilization and Channel Dynamics. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020 ;142(41):17425–17433.
. Multiscale Simulation of an Influenza A M2 Channel Mutant Reveals Key Features of Its Markedly Different Proton Transport Behavior. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022 ;144(2):769–776.
. Modulating the Chemical Transport Properties of a Transmembrane Antiporter via Alternative Anion Flux. J Am. Chem. Soc. 2018 ;140(48):16535–16543.
. Local conformational dynamics regulating transport properties of a Cl–/H+ antiporter. J. Comput. Chem. 2020 ;41(6):513–519 .
. The structure of phosphatidylinositol remodeling MBOAT7 reveals its catalytic mechanism and enables inhibitor identification. Nat. Commun. 2023 ;14:3533.
Mechanism of Phosphate Release from Actin Filaments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Submitted .
. Spatial Heterogeneity in Ionic Liquids. In: Ionic Liquids IV. Not Just Solvents Anymore. Ionic Liquids IV. Not Just Solvents Anymore. Washington DC: American Chemical Society; 2007. pp. 272-307.
. Proton Transport Pathway in the ClC Cl–/H+ Antiporter. Biophys. J. 2009 ;97:121-131.
. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polyglutamine Aggregation using Solvent-Free Multiscale Coarse-Grained Models. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2010 ;114:8735–8743.
. Tail Aggregation and Domain Diffusion in Ionic Liquids. J Phys Chem B. 2006 ;110:18601-8.
. Unique Spatial Heterogeneity in Ionic Liquids. J Am Chem Soc. 2005 ;127:12192-3.
. Effective Force Coarse-Graining. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2009 ;11:2002-2015.
. Understanding ionic liquids through atomistic and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Acc Chem Res. 2007 ;40:1193-9.
. Multiscale Coarse-Graining of Ionic Liquids. J Phys Chem B. 2006 ;110:3564-75.
. Transferable Coarse-Grained Models for Ionic Liquids. J. Chem. Theor. Comp. 2009 ;5:1091-1098.
. A Linear-scaling Self-consistent Generalization of the Multistate Empirical Valence Bond Method for Multiple Excess Protons in Aqueous Systems. J Chem Phys. 2005 ;122:144105.
. Unusual ‘Amphiphilic’ Association of Hydrated Protons in Strong Acid Solution. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008 ;130:3120-3126.
. Structure and Function of Lipid Droplet Assembly Complexes. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 2023 ;80:102606.
. Predicting the Sensitivity of Multiscale Coarse-grained Models to their Underlying Fine-grained Model Parameters. J. Chem. Theory Comp. . 2015 ;11:3547-3560.
. On the Representability Problem and the Physical Meaning of Coarse-Grained Models. J. Chem. Phys. 2016 ;145(044108):1-12.
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