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Yi Zhang

Home Department: Biophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Office Address: 3111 Beckman Institute

Email Address: yizhang@ks.uiuc.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in Biophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018
• B.A. in Mathematics, University of Arizona, 2013
• B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Arizona, 2013

Research Interests

• 26S Proteasome
• Protein Folding

Publications

• Recognition of Poly-ubiquitins by the Proteasome through Protein Re-folding Guided by Electrostatic and Hydrophobic Interactions.
  Yi Zhang*, Lela Vukovic*, Till Rudack*, Wei Han, and Klaus Schulten
  Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120:8137-8146, 2016. Special Issue: McCammon Festschrift.


• Disulfide Bridges: Bringing together Frustrated Structure in a Bioactive Peptide
  Yi Zhang, Klaus Schulten, Martin Gruebele, Paramjit S. Bansal, David Wilson, and Norelle L. Daly
  Biophysical Journal, 110:1744-1752, 2016.
  Cover article, highlighted in the Biophysical Society Blog and the PSC Highlights.


• Fast Pressure-jump All-atom Simulations and Experiments Reveal Site-specific Protein Dehydration-folding Dynamics
  Maxim B. Prigozhin*, Yi Zhang*, Klaus Schulten, Martin Gruebele, and Taras V. Pogorelov
  PNAS, 116(12):5356-5361, 2019.
  


• In-Cell Protein-Protein Contacts: Transient Interactions in the Crowd
  Meredith M. Rickard, Yi Zhang, Martin Gruebele, and Taras V. Pogorelov
  Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10(18):5667-5673, 2019.
  


• Crowding, Sticking, and Partial Folding of GTT WW Domain in a Small Cytoplasm Model
  Meredith M. Rickard, Yi Zhang, Taras V. Pogorelov, and Martin Gruebele
  Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 124,23:4732-4740, 2020.
  

* equal contribution

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Presentations

• Recognition of Poly-ubiquitins by the Proteasome

    Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting, 2015, Baltimore, Maryland (poster)


• Disulfide Bridges: Bringing together Frustrated Structure in a Bioactive Peptide

    Biophysical Society 60th Annual Meeting, 2016, Los Angeles, California (poster)
    11th Annual Conference on Protein Folding, Assemblies and Molecular Motions, 2016, Notre Dame, Indiana (poster)