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Dongping Zhong is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research expertise spans biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with a strong focus on molecular biology and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their work covers several key scientific topics, including:

  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Photosynthetic processes and mechanisms
  • Light effects on plants
  • Photochemistry and electron transfer studies
  • Spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies
  • Photochromic and fluorescence chemistry
  • Advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques

Dongping Zhong has contributed significantly to various publication venues. The most frequent among these are:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Dongping Zhong include:

  • "Photoenzymatic enantioselective intermolecular radical hydroamination," 2023, Nature Catalysis
  • "Visualizing the DNA repair process by a photolyase at atomic resolution," 2023, Science
  • "Ultrafast Dynamics and Catalytic Mechanism of Fatty Acid Photodecarboxylase," 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Study liquid-liquid phase separation with optical microscopy: A methodology review," 2023, APL Bioengineering
  • "Effects of nonequilibrium fluctuations on ultrafast short-range electron transfer dynamics," 2020, Nature Communications

Throughout their career, Dongping Zhong has collaborated frequently with several researchers. The most common co-authors include:

  • Bei Ding
  • Lijuan Wang
  • Xiu-Wen Kang
  • Yifei Zhang
  • Zhongneng Zhou

Best Publications

  • Mapping hydration dynamics around a protein surface

    Luyuan Zhang;Lijuan Wang;Ya Ting Kao;Weihong Qiu

  • Biological water: A critique

    Dongping Zhong;Samir Kumar Pal;Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Direct observation of thymine dimer repair in DNA by photolyase

    Ya Ting Kao;Chaitanya Saxena;Lijuan Wang;Aziz Sancar

  • Ultrafast dynamics of flavins in five redox states

    Ya Ting Kao;Chaitanya Saxena;Ting Fang He;Lijun Guo

  • Hydration dynamics and time scales of coupled water-protein fluctuations.

    Tanping Li;Ali A. Hassanali;Ya-Ting Kao;Dongping Zhong

  • Femtosecond dynamics of flavoproteins: charge separation and recombination in riboflavine (vitamin B2)-binding protein and in glucose oxidase enzyme.

    Dongping Zhong;Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Dynamics and mechanism of repair of ultraviolet-induced (6–4) photoproduct by photolyase

    Jiang Li;Zheyun Liu;Chuang Tan;Xunmin Guo

  • Protein hydration dynamics and molecular mechanism of coupled water-protein fluctuations

    Luyuan Zhang;Yi Yang;Ya-Ting Kao;Lijuan Wang

  • Searching for a photocycle of the cryptochrome photoreceptors

    Bin Liu;Hongtao Liu;Dongping Zhong;Chentao Lin

  • Femtosecond studies of protein–ligand hydrophobic binding and dynamics: Human serum albumin

    Dongping Zhong;Abderrazzak Douhal;Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Dynamics and mechanism of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer repair by DNA photolyase

    Zheyun Liu;Chuang Tan;Xunmin Guo;Ya Ting Kao

  • Femtosecond Real-Time Probing of Reactions. 23. Studies of Temporal, Velocity, Angular, and State Dynamics from Transition States to Final Products by Femtosecond-Resolved Mass Spectrometry

    Dongping Zhong;Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Protein surface hydration mapped by site-specific mutations

    Weihong Qiu;Ya Ting Kao;Luyuan Zhang;Yi Yang

  • Ultrafast Dynamics and Anionic Active States of the Flavin Cofactor in Cryptochrome and Photolyase

    Ya Ting Kao;Chuang Tan;Sang Hun Song;Nuri Öztürk

  • Ultrafast solvation dynamics of human serum albumin: correlations with conformational transitions and site-selected recognition.

    Weihong Qiu;Luyuan Zhang;Oghaghare Okobiah;Yi Yang

  • Reaction mechanism of Drosophila cryptochrome

    Nuri Ozturk;Christopher P. Selby;Yunus Annayev;Dongping Zhong

  • Dynamics and mechanism of ultrafast water–protein interactions

    Yangzhong Qin;Lijuan Wang;Dongping Zhong

  • Femtosecond dynamics of rubredoxin: Tryptophan solvation and resonance energy transfer in the protein

    Dongping Zhong;Samir Kumar Pal;Deqiang Zhang;Sunney I. Chan

  • Femtosecond studies of tryptophan solvation: correlation function and water dynamics at lipid surfaces

    Wenyun Lu;Jongjoo Kim;Weihong Qiu;Dongping Zhong

  • Femtosecond real-time probing of reactions. XXI. Direct observation of transition-state dynamics and structure in charge-transfer reactions

    P. Y. Cheng;D. Zhong;Ahmed H. Zewail

Frequent Co-Authors

Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ahmed H. Zewail
Ahmed H. Zewail California Institute of Technology
Wenyun Lu
Wenyun Lu Princeton University
Samir Kumar Pal
Samir Kumar Pal S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
Jiali Gao
Jiali Gao University of Minnesota
Qihuang Gong
Qihuang Gong Peking University
Abderrazzak Douhal
Abderrazzak Douhal University of Castilla-La Mancha
Chentao Lin
Chentao Lin University of California, Los Angeles
Ming-Daw Tsai
Ming-Daw Tsai Academia Sinica
Majed Chergui
Majed Chergui École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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