Research Areas:
Molecular Mechanism of Membrane Transporters
Membrane Activation of Blood Coagulation Factors
Permeation, Selectivity, and gating of Aquaporin water channels
Molecular basis of
function of retinal proteins: MD study
of Rhodopsin, Bacteriorhodopsin and
the Purple Membrane
Publications:
Complete list of publications
Last 5 years
2008
Distinct structural and adhesive roles of Ca2+ in membrane binding of blood coagulation factors. Yoshiaki Zenmei Ohkubo and Emad Tajkhorshid. Structure, 16:72-81, 2008.
Substrate binding and formation of an occluded state in the leucine transporter. L. Celik, B. Schiott, and E. Tajkhorshid. Biophysical Journal, 94:1600-1612, 2008.
Diffusion of glycerol through Escherichia coli aquaglyceroporin GlpF. Jerome Henin, Emad Tajkhorshid, Klaus Schulten, and Christophe Chipot. Biophysical Journal, 94:832-839, 2008.
Gas conduction of lipid bilayers and membrane channels. Y. Wang, Y. Zenmei Ohkubo, and E. Tajkhorshid. In Scott Feller, editor, Current Topics in Membranes: Computational Modeling of Membrane Bilayers. Elsevier, 2008. In press.
Indirect role of Ca2+ in the assembly of extracelluar matrix proteins. Jiankuai Diao and Emad Tajkhorshid. Biophysical Journal, 2008. In press.
Blood clotting reactions on nanoscale phospholipid bilayers. J. H. Morrissey, V. Pureza, R. L. Davis-Harrison, S. G. Sligar, Y. Z. Ohkubo, and E. Tajkhorshid. Trombosis Research, 2008. In press.
Resolution enhancement in solid-state NMR spectra of oriented membrane proteins by anisotropic differential linebroadening. T. Vosegaard, K. Bertelsen, J. M. Pedersen, L. Thøgersen, B. Schiøtt, E. Tajkhorshid, T. Skrydstrup, and N. Chr. Nielsen. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008. In press.
Mechanism of signal propagation upon retinal isomerization: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations of rhodopsin restrained by normal modes. Basak Isin, Klaus Schulten, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Ivet Bahar. Biophysical Journal, 95:789-803, 2008.
2007
Mechanics of force propagation in TonB-dependent outer membrane transport. James Gumbart, Michael C. Wiener, and Emad Tajkhorshid. Biophysical Journal, 93:496-504, 2007.
Molecular mechanisms of conduction and selectivity in aquaporin water channels. Yi Wang and Emad Tajkhorshid. Journal of Nutrition, 137:1509S-1515S, 2007.
Exploring gas permeability of cellular membranes and membrane channels with molecular dynamics. Yi Wang, Jordi Cohen, Walter F. Boron, Klaus Schulten, and Emad Tajkhorshid. Journal of Structural Biology, 157:534-544, 2007.
Sugar transport across lactose permease probed by steered molecular dynamics. Morten Ø. Jensen, Ying Yin, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Journal, 93:92-102, 2007.
2006
Structural mechanism of plant aquaporin gating. S. Törnroth-Horsefield, Y. Wang, K. Hedfalk, U. Johanson, M. Karlsson, E. Tajkhorshid, R. Neutze, and P. Kjellbom. Nature, 439:688-694, 2006.
Towards theoretical analysis of long-range proton transfer kinetics in biomolecular pumps. P. H. Koenig, N. Ghosh, M. Hoffmann, M. Elstner, E. Tajkhorshid, Th. Frauenheim, and Q. Cui. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 110:548-563, 2006.
Color tuning in rhodopsins: the mechanism for the spectral shift between bacteriorhodopsin and sensory rhodopsin II. Michael Hoffmann, Marius Wanko, Paul Strodel, Peter H. Koenig, Thomas Frauenheim, Klaus Schulten, Walter Thiel, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Marcus Elstner. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128:10808-10818, 2006.
Sugar binding and protein conformational changes in lactose permease. Ying Yin, Morten Ø. Jensen, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Journal, 91:3972-3985, 2006.
Mechanism of gating and ion conductivity of a possible tetrameric pore in Aquaporin-1. Jin Yu, Andrea J. Yool, Klaus Schulten, and Emad Tajkhorshid. Structure, 14:1411-1423, 2006.
Dynamics of K+ ion conduction through Kv1.2. Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Journal, 91:L72-L74, 2006.
2005
What makes an aquaporin a glycerol channel: A comparative study of AqpZ and GlpF. Yi Wang, Klaus Schulten, and Emad Tajkhorshid. Structure, 13:1107-1118, 2005.
Kinetic theory and simulation of single-channel water transport. Emad Tajkhorshid, Fangqiang Zhu, and Klaus Schulten. In S. Yip, editor, Handbook of Materials Modeling, Vol. I: Methods and Models, pp. 1797-1822. Springer, Netherlands, 2005.
Molecular dynamics simulations of proteins in lipid bilayers. James Gumbart, Yi Wang, Alekseij Aksimentiev, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Klaus Schulten. Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 15:423-431, 2005.
Towards understanding membrane channels. Emad Tajkhorshid, Jordi Cohen, Aleksij Aksimentiev, Marcos Sotomayor, and Klaus Schulten. In Boris Martinac and Andrzej Kubalski, editors, Bacterial ion channels and their eukaryotic homologues, pp. 153-190. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2005.
Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD. James C. Phillips, Rosemary Braun, Wei Wang, James Gumbart, Emad Tajkhorshid, Elizabeth Villa, Christophe Chipot, Robert D. Skeel, Laxmikant Kale, and Klaus Schulten. Journal of Computational Chemistry, 26:1781-1802, 2005.
Determination of structural and functional overlap/divergence of five proto-type galectins by analysis of the growth-regulatory interaction with ganglioside GM1 in silico and in vitro human neuroblastoma cells. S. Andre, H. Kaltner, M. Lensch, R. Russwurm, H.-C. Siebert, Emad Tajkhorshid, A. J. R. Heck, M. von Knebel-Doeberitz, H.-J. Gabius, and J. Kopitz. Int. J. Cancer, 114:46-57, 2005.
2004
Molecular basis of proton blockage in aquaporins. N. Chakrabarti, E. Tajkhorshid, B. Roux, and R. Pomes. Structure, 12:65-74, 2004.
Role of hydrogen-bond network in energy storage of bacteriorhodopsin's light-driven proton pump revealed by ab initio normal mode analysis. Shigehiko Hayashi, Emad Tajkhorshid, Hideki Kandori, and Klaus Schulten. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126:10516-10517, 2004.
The mechanism of proton exclusion in aquaporin channels. Boaz Ilan, Emad Tajkhorshid, Klaus Schulten, and Gregory A. Voth. PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 55:223-228, 2004.
Theory and simulation of water permeation in aquaporin-1. Fangqiang Zhu, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Journal, 86:50-57, 2004.
Classical force field parameters for the heme prosthetic group of cytochrome c. F. Autenrieth, E. Tajkhorshid, J. Baudry, and Z. Luthey-Schulten. Journal of Computational Chemistry, 25:1613-1622, 2004.
Complementarities and convergence of results in bacteriorhodopsin trimer simulations. Jerome Baudry, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Journal, 87:1394-1395, 2004.
Theory and simulation of water permeation in aquaporin-1. Fangqiang Zhu, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Journal, 86:50-57, 2004.
Role of water in transient cytochrome c2 docking. Felix Autenrieth, Emad Tajkhorshid, Klaus Schulten, and Zaida Luthey-Schulten. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108:20376-20387, 2004.