Publications
Structural Basis for Polarized Elongation of Actin Filaments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2020 ;117(48):30458–30464.
. Single Molecule Studies Reveal A Hidden Key Step in the Activation Mechanism of Membrane-Bound Protein Kinase C alpha. Biochemistry. 2014 ;53:1697-1713.
. Synthesis, Characterization and Simulation of Four-Armed Megamolecules. Biomacromolecules. 2021 ;22(6):2363–2372.
A Systematic Methodology for Defining Coarse-grained Sites in Large Biomolecules. Biophys. J. 2008 ;95:5073-5083.
. Strain and Rapture of HIV-1 Capsids During Uncoating. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 2022 ;119(10):e2117781119.
. Structure of the Liquid−Vacuum Interface of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: A Molecular Dynamics Study. J Phys Chem B. 2006 ;110:1800-6.
. Storage of an Excess Proton in the Hydrogen-bonded Network of the D-pathway of Cytochrome c Oxidase: Identification of a Protonated Water Cluster. J Am Chem Soc [Internet]. 2007 ;129:2910-3.
. Structure and Dynamics of Concentrated Hydrochloric Acid Solutions. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2010 ;114:9555–9562.
. 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.
. The structure of phosphatidylinositol remodeling MBOAT7 reveals its catalytic mechanism and enables inhibitor identification. Nat. Commun. 2023 ;14:3533.
Structure and Function of Lipid Droplet Assembly Complexes. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 2023 ;80:102606.
. Semiclassical Theory of Fermi Resonance between Stretching and Bending Modes in Polyatomic Molecules. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 1985 ;82:4064-4072.
. Semiclassical Dressed State Theory for the Vibrational Excitation of a Morse Oscillator by Radiation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 1985 ;89:2208-2213.
. Superposition State Molecular Dynamics. J. Chem. Theory Comp. 2005 ;1:36-40.
. Simulating Protein Mediated Hydrolysis of ATP and Other Nucleoside Triphosphates by Combining QM/MM Molecular Dynamics with Advances in Metadynamics. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2017 ;13.
. Studies on the Influence of Nonlinearity in Classical Activated Rate Processes. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 1992 ;96:5460-5470.
. Solvent-Free Highly Coarse-Grained Models for Charged Lipid Systems. J. Chem. Theor. Comp. . 2014 ;(10):4730-4744.
. The Semiclassical Calculation of Nonadiabatic Tunneling Rates. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 1998 ;108:1055-1062.
. Structure and Dynamics of Hydronium in the Ion Channel Gramicidin A. Biophys J. 1996 ;70:2043-51.
. A Semiclassical Reactive Flux Method for the Calculation of Condensed Phase Activated Rate Constants. Chem. Phys. 1994 ;180:167-180.
. Self-consistent Harmonic Theory of Solvation in Glassy Systems: Classical Solvation. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 2000 ;112:3267-3279.
. Self-consistent Harmonic Theory of Solvation in Glassy Systems: Quantum Solvation. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 2000 ;112:3280-3284.
. On the Structure and Dynamics of Ionic Liquids. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2004 ;108:1744-1752.
. Structure and Dynamics of the Actin Filament. J. Mol. Biol. 2010 ;396:252–263.
. Systematic Coarse-Grained Lipid Force Fields with Semiexplicit Solvation via Virtual Sites. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2019 ;15(3):2087–2100.
. Semiclassical Molecular Dynamics Computation of Spontaneous Light Emission in the Condensed Phase: Resonance Raman Spectra. J. Chem. Phys. 2001 ;114:7130-7143.
. Structural Basis of Membrane Bending by the N-BAR Protein Endophilin. Cell. 2012 ;149.
. The Self-Consistent Charge Density Functional Tight Binding Method Applied to Liquid Water and the Hydrated Excess Proton: Benchmark Simulations. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2010 ;114:6922-6931.
. Special Pair Dance and Partner Selection: Elementary Steps in Proton Transport in Liquid Water. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2008 ;112:9456-9466.
. Systematic Multiscale Parameterization of Heterogeneous Elastic Network Models of Proteins. Biophys. J. 2008 ;95:4183–4192.
. Systematic Coarse-graining of a Multi-component Lipid Bilayer. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2009 ;113:1501-1510.
. Smart Resolution Replica Exchange: an Efficient Algorithm for Exploring Complex Energy Landscapes. J Chem Phys. 2007 ;126:045106.
. Static and Dynamic Correlations in Water: Classical Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Run at an Elevated Temperature May Not Capture Well Explicit Nuclear Quantum Effects at Ambient Temperature. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2022 ;18(4):2124–2131.
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Statistical Mechanical Design Principles for Coarse-grained Interactions Across Different Conformational Free Energy Surfaces. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023 ;14(6):1354–1362.
. Simple Reversible Molecular Dynamics Algorithms for Nos[e-acute]–Hoover Chain Dynamics. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 1997 ;107:9514-9526.
. A Solvent Free Lipid Bilayer Model Using Multiscale Coarse-graining. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2009 ;113:4443-4455.
. Systematic Coarse-Graining of Nanoparticle Interactions in Molecular Dynamics Simulation. J Phys Chem B. 2005 ;109:17019-24.
. Structural Asymmetry in Fast- And Slow-Severing Actin-Cofilactin Boundaries. J. Biol. Chem. 2021 ;296:100337.
. Simulating Accidental Fires and Explosions. Computing in Science and Engineering. 2000 ;2:64-76.
. Structural Characterization of Protonated Water Clusters Confined in HZSM-5 Zeolites. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021 ;143(27):10203–10213.
. The SARS-Cov-2 Nucleoprotein Associates With Anionic Lipid Membranes. J. Bio. Chem. Submitted .
. Structure of SARS-CoV-2 M protein in lipid nanodiscs. eLife. 2022 ;11:e81702.
. A Second Generation Multi-State Empirical Valence Bond Model for Proton Transport in Aqueous Systems. J. Chem. Phys. 2002 ;117:5839-5849.
. Solvated Excess Proton as the Active Site in Methanol Dehydration: Beyond the Hydrated Hydronium Ion. Submitted .
. Semiclassical Approximations to Quantum Dynamical Time Correlation Functions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 1996 ;104:273-285.
. Solvent Free Ionic Solution Models from Multiscale Coarse-Graining. J Chem Theory Comput. 2013 ;9:172-178.
. Structure of Hydrated Na−Nafion Polymer Membranes. J Phys Chem B. 2005 ;109:24244-53.
. Systematic Coarse-graining of Biomolecular and Soft Matter Systems. MRS Bulletin. 2007 ;32:929-934.
. A Second Generation Mesoscopic Lipid Bilayer Model: Connections to Field-Theory Descriptions of Membranes and Nonlocal Hydrodynamics. J Chem Phys. 2006 ;124:64906.
. Systematic Multiscale Simulation of Membrane Protein Systems. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 2009 ;19:138-144.
. The Simulation of Biomolecular Systems at Multiple Length and Time Scales. Int. J. for Multiscale Comp. Eng. 2004 ;2:291-311.
. Simulation of Proton Transport in Proton Exchange Membranes with Reactive Molecular Dynamics. Fuel Cells. 2016 ;0000:1-9.
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