Publications
] . Coarse-Graining of Condensed Phase and Biomolecular Systems. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group; 2009.
. Advances In Coarse-Grained Modeling of Bio-Macromolecular Complexes. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 2018 ;52:119-126.
. Atomic-scale Characterization of Mature HIV-1 Capsid Stabilization by Inositol Hexakisphosphate (IP6). Science Advances. 2020 ;6(36).
. Binding Mechanism of the Matrix Domain of HIV-1 Gag to Lipid Membranes. eLife . 2020 ;9.
. Cholesterol Alters the Membrane Orientation and Activity of the Influenza Virus M2 Amphipathic Helix. J. Phys. Chem. B . 2020 ;124(31):6738-6747 .
. Coarse-grained Force Fields from the Perspective of Statistical Mechanics: Better Understanding the Origins of a MARTINI Hangover. J. Chem. Theory Comp. Submitted .
. Constructing Many-body Mesoscopic Models of Fluids from Bottom-up Coarse-graining. J. Chem. Phys. Submitted .
. Density Functional Theory-based Quantum Mechanics/Coarse-grained Molecular Mechanics: Theory and Implementation. J. Chem. Theory Comp. 2020 ;16(10):6329–6342.
. Electrostatic Interactions Between the Bni1p Formin FH2 Domain and Actin Influence Actin Filament Nucleation. Structure. 2015 ;23.
. Ena/VASP processive elongation is modulated by avidity on actin filaments bundled by the filopodia crosslinker fascin. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 2019 ;30(7).
. Generalized Langevin Equation Analysis of Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics. J. Chem. Phys. Submitted .
. Influenza A M2 Inhibitor Binding Understood through Mechanisms of Excess Proton Stabilization and Channel Dynamics. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020 ;142(41):17425–17433.
. Insights into the Cooperative Nature of ATP Hydrolysis in Actin Filaments. Biophysical Journal. 2018 ;115(18):1589-1602.
. Integrin-Based Mechanosensing through Conformational Activation. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. Submitted .
. Interactions of Protein Kinase C-α C1A and C1B Domains with Membranes: A Combined Computational and Experimental Study. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014 ;136(33):11757–11766.
. Interfacial solvation and slow transport of hydrated excess protons in non-ionic reverse micelles. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2020 .
. Membrane-Mediated Forces Can Stabilize Tubular Assemblies of I-BAR Proteins. Biophys. J. Submitted .
. A Minimal Experimental Bias on the Hydrogen Bond Greatly Improves Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Water. J. Chem. Theory. Comp. 2020 ;16(9):5675–5684 .
. Molecular Origins of the Barriers to Proton Transport in Acidic Aqueous Solutions. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2020 ;124(40):8868–8876.
. Molecular transport through membranes: Accurate permeability coefficients from multidimensional potentials of mean force and local diffusion constants. J. Chem. Phys. 2018 ;149.
. Multiconfigurational Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics. J. Chem. Theory Comp. 2019 ;15(5):3306–3315.
. Multiscale model of integrin adhesion assembly. POLS Computational Biology. 2019 ;15(6):e1007077.
. Multiscale Simulation of Actin Filaments and Actin-Associated Proteins. Biophys Rev. 2018 ;10:1521-1535.
. Multiscale Simulation Reveals Passive Proton Transport Through SERCA on the Microsecond Timescale. Biophys. J. 2020 ;119(5):1033-1040.
. A New One-Site Coarse-Grained Model for Water: Bottom-Up Many-body Projected Water (BUMPer). I. General Theory and Model. Submitted .
. Off-Pathway Assembly: A Broad-Spectrum Mechanism of Action for Drugs That Undermine Controlled HIV-1 Viral Capsid Formation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019 ;141(26):10214-10224.
. Organizing Membrane-Curving Proteins: The Emerging Dynamical Picture. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 2018 ;51:99-105 .
. Path Integral Coarse-graining Replica Exchange Method for Enhanced Sampling. J. Chem. Theor. Comp. 2014 ;10 (9 ):3634–3640.
. Quantum Theory of Multiscale Coarse-graining. J. Chem. Phys. 2018 ;148:102335.
. Reactive Coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics. J. Chem. Theory. Comp. 2020 ;16(4):2541−2549.
. Solvent-Free Highly Coarse-Grained Models for Charged Lipid Systems. J. Chem. Theor. Comp. . 2014 ;(10):4730-4744.
. Structural Asymmetry in Fast- And Slow-Severing Actin-Cofilactin Boundaries. Biophys. J. Submitted .
. Structural Basis for Polarized Elongation of Actin Filaments. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 2020 .
. Systematic Coarse-Grained Lipid Force Fields with Semiexplicit Solvation via Virtual Sites. J Chem Theory Comput. 2019 ;15(3):2087–2100.
. Temperature and Phase Transferable Bottom-up Coarse-Grained Models. J. Chem. Theory Comp. In Press .
. Transferable Reactive Potentials Derived from Asymptotic Density Functional Theory. Phys Rev. Lett. Submitted .
. Transition-Tempered Metadynamics: Robust, Convergent Metadynamics via On-The-Fly Transition Barrier Estimation. J. Chem. Theor. Comp. 2014 .
. TRIM5α Self-Assembly and Compartmentalization of the HIV-1 Viral Capsid. Nature Comm. 2020 ;11:1-10.
. Ultra-Coarse-Grained Liquid State Models with Implicit Hydrogen Bonding. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2018 ;14(12):6159-6174.
. Ultra-Coarse-Grained Models Allow for an Accurate and Transferable Treatment of Interfacial Systems. J. Chem. Theory Comp. 2018 ;14(4):2180-2197.
. Unraveling the Mystery of ATP Hydrolysis in Actin Filaments. J. Am. Chem. Soc. . 2014 ;136(37):13053–13058.
. Water Assisted Proton Transport in Confined Nanochannels. J. Phys. Chem. C. 2020 ;124:16186−16201.