Physics of Proteins III: Folding, Structure and Stability

Presentations

• The Speed Limit of Protein Folding: Alpha-Helix Initiation Modeled and Observed

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 11:15 AM – March 22, 2011, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Milo Lin

    • Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology, California Institute of Technology

  • Omar Mohammed

    • Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology, California Institute of Technology

  • Ahmed Zewail

    • Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology, California Institute of Technology

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• Protein folding microenvironments within the cytoplasm of living cells

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 11:27 AM – March 22, 2011, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Minghao Guo

  • Apratim Dhar

  • Martin Gruebele

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• First step in folding of nonconstitutive membrane proteins: spontaneous insertion of a polypeptide into a lipid bilayer and formation of helical structure

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 11:39 AM – March 22, 2011, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Yana Reshetnyak

    • Physics, URI

  • Alexander Karabadzhak

    • Physics, URI

  • Dhammika Weerakkody

    • Physics, URI

  • Donald Engelman

    • Yale Univ.

  • Vladislav Markin

    • Univ of Texas Southwestern Med School

  • Oleg Andreev

    • Physics, URI
    • University of Rhode Island

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• Protein barrel fluctuations and the barrel permeability: A comparison between Green and Red Fluorescent proteins

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 11:51 AM – March 22, 2011, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Chola Regmi

    • Department of Physics, Florida International University

  • Prem Chapagain

    • Department of Physics, Florida International University

  • Bernard Gerstman

    • Department of Physics, Florida International University
    • Florida International University

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• Heterogeneous helical propensity and its effects on dimerization and the stability of a model protein dimer

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 12:03 PM – March 22, 2011, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Yuba Bhandari

    • Department of Physics, Florida International University

  • Prem Chapagain

    • Department of Physics, Florida International University

  • Bernard Gerstman

    • Department of Physics, Florida International University
    • Florida International University

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• Protein-like folding and free energy landscape of a homopolymer chain

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 12:15 PM – March 22, 2011, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Mark Taylor

    • Dept. of Physics, Hiram College, Hiram, OH

  • Wolfgang Paul

    • Martin-Luther-Universitat, Halle, Germany

  • Kurt Binder

    • Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat, Mainz, Germany

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• Unfolding Kinetics of Egg Protein

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 12:27 PM – March 22, 2011, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Dipti Sharma

    • UML

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• Probing the dynamics of biomolecules in liquid water by terahertz spectroscopy

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 12:39 PM – March 22, 2011, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Nguyen Vinh

    • Physics Department, UCSB

  • S. James Allen

    • Department of Physics, UCSB
    • Department of Physics, University of CA, Santa Barbara
    • Department of Physics - UCSB
    • Physics Department, UCSB
    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Kevin Plaxco

    • UC Santa Barbara
    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSB

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• MD-simulations of Beta-Amyloid Protein Insertion Efficiency and Kinetics into Neuronal Membrane Mimics

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 12:51 PM – March 22, 2011, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Liming Qiu

    • Texas Tech University

  • Creighton Buie

    • Texas Tech University

  • Mark Vaughn

    • Texas Tech University

  • Kwan Cheng

    • Texas Tech University

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• Characterization of Polyethylene Glycol Modified Hemoglobins

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 1:03 PM – March 22, 2011, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Gil Salazar

    • Physics Department Georgia Southern University

  • James Barr

    • Physics Department Georgia Southern University

  • Wayne Morgan

    • Physics Department Georgia Southern University

  • Li Ma

    • Physics Department Georgia Southern Univ.
    • Physics Department Georgia Southern University

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• Multi-scale structure of a protein (histone H3.1) via a knowledge-based potential

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 1:15 PM – March 22, 2011, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Ras Pandey

    • University of Southern Mississippi

  • Barry Farmer

    • Air Force Research Laboratory

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• Calculating the shift in pKa of the position 66 for an Staphylococcal nuclease mutant with the Replica Exchange Free Energy Perturbation method

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 1:27 PM – March 22, 2011, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Danial Sabri Dashti

    • Physics Department and Quantum Theory Project at University of Florida

  • Adrian Roitberg

    • Quantum Theory Project at University of Florida

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• Brownian dynamics simulations of amelogenin microribbons formation

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 1:39 PM – March 22, 2011, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Wei Li

    • Lehigh University

  • Anthony Perez Lopez

    • Lehigh University

  • Ya Liu

    • Lehigh University

  • Amit Chakrabarti

    • Kansas State University
    • Dept. of Physics, Kansas State University

  • James Gunton

    • Lehigh University

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• Stability of proteins inside a hydrophobic cavity

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 1:51 PM – March 22, 2011, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Mithun Radhakrishna

    • Columbia University

  • Sumit Sharma

    • Princeton University

  • Sanat Kumar

    • Columbia University

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• Wang-Landau sampling of protein adsorption using the HP model

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 2:03 PM – March 22, 2011, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Ying-Wai Li

    • Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia

  • D.P. Landau

    • Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia
    • Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia

  • T. Wuest

    • Swiss Federal Research Institute

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