The Luthey-Schulten Group


Recent Publications:

R.W. Alexander, J. Eargle, and Z. Luthey-Schulten
Experimental and computational analysis of tRNA dynamics
FEBS Letters, in press

A. Sethi, J. Eargle, A. Black, and Z. Luthey-Schulten
Dynamical Networks in tRNA:protein complexes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(16):6620-6625, 2009
Supplementary Material

E. Roberts, J.E. Stone, L. Sepulveda, W.W. Hwu, and Z. Luthey-Schulten
Long time-scale simulations of in vivo diffusion using GPU hardware
In The Eighth IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Computational Biology, 2009

E. Roberts, A. Sethi, J. Montoya, C.R. Woese, and Z. Luthey-Schulten
Molecular signatures of ribosomal evolution
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(37):13953-8, 2008
Supplementary Material

J. Eargle, A. Black, A. Sethi, L. Trabuco, and Z. Luthey-Schulten
Dynamics of recognition between tRNA and Elongation Factor Tu
J Mol Biol, 377(5):1382-405, 2008

D.C. Mathew and Z. Luthey-Schulten
On the physical basis of the amino acid polar requirement
J Mol Evol 66(5):519-28, 2008

T.V. Pogorelov, F. Autenrieth, E. Roberts, and Z. Luthey-Schulten
Cytochrome c2 exit strategy: dissociation studies and evolutionary implications
J Phys Chem B, 111(3):618-634, 2007

R. Amaro, A. Sethi, R. Myers, Jo V Davisson, and Z. Luthey-Schulten
A network of conserved interactions regulates the allosteric signal in a glutamine amidotransferase
Biochemistry, 46(8):2156-2173, 2007

E. Roberts, J. Eargle, D. Wright, and Z. Luthey-Schulten
MultiSeq: Unifying sequence and structure data for evolutionary analysis
BMC Bioinformatics, 7:382, 2006

J. Eargle and Z. Luthey-Schulten
Visualizing the dual space of biological molecules
Comput Biol Chem, 30:219-226, 2006

J. Eargle, D. Wright, and Z. Luthey-Schulten
Multiple alignment of protein structures and sequences for VMD
Bioinformatics, 22(4):504-506, 2006

P. O'Donoghue, A. Sethi, C. R. Woese, and Z. Luthey-Schulten
The evolutionary history of Cys-tRNACys formation
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 102(52):19003-19008, 2005
Supplementary Material
- Poster based on this work (PDF)
- M. jannaschii SepRS Theoretical Model (PDB).
- M. jannaschii SepCysS Theoretical Models: apo monomer (PDB), dimer with substrates (PDB).
- Parameter file for o-phosphoserine(SEP)-adenosine-5'-monophosphate and o-phosphoserine attached to cytosine from the CCA end of the tRNA (inp).
- Topology file for o-phosphoserine(SEP)-adenosine-5'-monophosphate and o-phosphoserine attached to cytosine from the CCA end of the tRNA (inp).

R.S. Meyers, R. Amaro, Z. Luthey-Schulten, and V.J. Davisson
Reaction Coupling through Interdomain Contacts in Imidazole Glycerol Phosphate Synthase
Biochemistry
, 13; 44(36):11974-85, 2005

R. Amaro, R.S. Myers, Z. Luthey-Schulten, and V.J. Davisson
Structural elements in IGP synthase exclude water to optimize ammonia transfer
Biophys J.
, 89(1):475-87, 2005

A. Sethi, P. O'Donoghue, and Z. Luthey-Schulten
Evolutionary profiles from the QR factorization of multiple sequence alignments
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
, 102, 4045-4050, 2005.
Supplementary Material

P. O'Donoghue and Z. Luthey-Schulten
Evolutionary profiles derived from the QR factorization of multiple structural alignments
gives an economy of information
J. Mol. Biol.
, 346, 875-894, 2005

Authenrieth F., Tajkhorshid E., Schulten K., and Luthey-Schulten Z.
Role of water in transient cytochrome c2 docking
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
, 108, 20376-20387, 2004
Supplementary Material

Amaro R. and Luthey-Schulten Z.,
Molecular dynamics simulations of substrate channeling through an alpha-beta barrel protein,
Chemical Physics
, 307, 147-155, 2004.

Authenrieth F., Tajkhorshid E., Baudry J., and Luthey-Schulten Z.,
Classical force field parameters for the heme prosthetic group of cytochromec,
Journal of Computational Chemistry
, 25: 1613-1622, 2004. Supplementary Material

Pogorelov T.V. and Luthey-Schulten Z.,
Variations in the fast folding rates of the lambda-repressor: a hybrid molecular dynamics study,
Biophysical Journal
, 87: 207-214, 2004.

Papoian G. A., Ulander J., Eastwood M.P., Luthey-Schulten Z., and Wolynes P.G.
Water in protein structure prediction,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
101(10):3352-3357, 2004.

Fujitsuka Y., Takada S., Luthey-Schulten Z.A., and Wolynes P.G.
Optimizing physical energy functions for protein folding,
Proteins: Structure, Function, & Bioinformatics.
54(1):88-103, 2004.

O'Donoghue P. and Luthey-Schulten Z.
On the Evolution of Structure in the Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases.
Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev.
67: 550-573, 2003. Supplementary Material.

Amaro R., Tajkhorshid E., and Luthey-Schulten Z.,
Developing an energy landscape for the novel function of a (beta/alpha)(8) barrel:
Ammonia conduction through HisF.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
100(13):7599-7604, 2003.

Eastwood MP, Hardin C, Luthey-Schulten Z, and Wolynes PG.
Statistical mechanical refinement of protein structure prediction schemes II:
Mayer cluster expansion approach. J. Chem. Phys.
118(18): 8500-8512, 2003.

Wang J., Luthey-Schulten Z., and Suslick K. Is the olfactory receptor a metalloprotein?
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
100(6): 3035-3039, 2003.

Hardin C., Eastwood M.P., Prentiss M. C., Luthey-Schulten Z., and Wolynes P.G.
Associative memory Hamiltonians for structure prediction without homology: alpha/beta proteins,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
100(4): 1679-1684, 2003.

NSF-NIH Report 2003: Accelerating Mathematical-Biological Linkages

Eastwood MP, Hardin C, Luthey-Schulten Z, and Wolynes PG.
Statistical mechanical refinement of protein structure prediction schemes: Cumulant expansion approach.
Journal of Chemical Physics.
117(9):4602-4615, 2002.

Hardin C., Pogorelov TV, Luthey-Schulten Z.
Ab initio protein structure prediction.
Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol.
12(2):176-181, 2002.

Hardin C, Eastwood MP, Prentiss M, Luthey-Schulten Z, and Wolynes PG.
Folding funnels: The key to robust protein structure prediction.
J. Comp. Chem.
23(1):138-146, 2002.

M. Eastwood, C. Hardin, Z. Luthey-Schulten, and P. Wolynes.
Evaluating protein structure-prediction schemes using energy landscape theory.
IBM J. Res. & Dev.
45: 475-497, 2001.

P. O'Donoghue, R. E. Amaro, and Z. Luthey-Schulten.
On the Structure of HisH: Protein Structure Prediction in the
Context of Structural and Functional Genomics.
J. Struct. Biol.
134: 257-268, 2001.

C. Hardin, M. Eastwood, Z. Luthey-Schulten and P. G. Wolynes,
"Associative Memory Hamiltonians for Structure Prediction without
Homology: Alpha-helical Proteins",
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
97, 14235, 2000.

P.O'Donoghue and Z. Luthey-Schulten, "Barriers to Forced Transitions in Polysaccharides",
J. Phys. Chem. B
, 104, 10398, 2000.

S. Takada, Z. Luthey-Schulten, and P.G. Wolynes, "Folding
Dynamics with Nonadditive Forces" A Simulation Study of a
Designed Helical Protein and a Random Heteropolymer",
J. Chem. Phys.
110, 11616-11629, 1999.

K. Koretke, Z. Luthey-Schulten, P. G. Wolynes,
"Self-Consistently Optimized Energy Functions for Protein
Structure Prediction by Molecular Dynamics",
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
95, 2932, 1998.

A. Panchenko, Z. Luthey-Schulten, R. Cole, P.G. Wolynes,
"The Foldon Universe: A Survey of Structural Similarity and
Self-Recognition of Independently Folding Units",
J. Mol. Biol.,
272, 95-105, 1997.

J. Onuchic, Z. Luthey-Schulten, P. G. Wolynes, "Theory of
Protein Folding: The Energy Landscape Perspective",
Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem.
48, 539-600, 1997.

A. Panchenko, Z. Luthey-Schulten, P. G Wolynes, " Foldons,
Protein Structural Modules, and Exons",
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
93, 2008, 1996.

K. Koretke, Z. Luthey-Schulten, P. G. Wolynes,
"Self-Consistently Optimized Statistical Mechanical Energy
Functions for Sequence-Structure Alignment",
Protein Science,
5, 1043-1059, 1996.

J. Onuchic, P. G. Wolynes, Z. Luthey-Schulten, and N. Socci,
"Towards an Outline of the Topography of a Realistic Protein Folding Funnel",
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
92, 3626-3630, 1995.

Z. Luthey-Schulten, B. Ramierez, and P. G. Wolynes,
"Helix-Coil, Liquid Crystal, and Spin Glass Transitions of a Collapsed Heteropolymer,"
J. Phys. Chem.
99, 2177, 1995.

R. Goldstein, Z. Luthey-Schulten, P.G. Wolynes, " Protein
Tertiary Structure Recognition using Optimized Hamiltonians
with Local Interactions",
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
89, 9029-9033, 1992.

R. Goldstein, Z. Luthey-Schulten, P. G. Wolynes, "Optimal
Protein Folding Codes from Spin Glass Theory",
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
89, 4918-4922, 1992.

K. Schulten, A. Bruenger, W. Nadler, and Z.
Schulten,"Generalized Moment Description of Brownian
Dynamics in Biological Systems", Synergetics - From
Microscopic to Macroscopic Order, pp. 80-89, E. Frehland
(editor), Springer Verlag, 1984.

K. Schulten, Z. Schulten, and A. Szabo, "Dynamics of
Reactions Involving Diffusive Barrier Crossing",
Journal of Chemical Physics.
74, 4426-4432, 1981.


 

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