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89
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2121
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767

Overview

Emad Tajkhorshid is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on molecular biology and its related subfields.

Their work addresses a variety of topics within these disciplines, including lipid membrane structure and behavior, protein structure and dynamics, drug transport and resistance mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, ion channel regulation and function, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Emad Tajkhorshid has contributed to numerous scholarly publications. Selected recent papers include:

  • Scalable molecular dynamics on CPU and GPU architectures with NAMD, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Structural and functional diversity calls for a new classification of ABC transporters, 2020, FEBS Letters
  • Aβ(1-42) tetramer and octamer structures reveal edge conductivity pores as a mechanism for membrane damage, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Structural insights into photosystem II assembly, 2021, Nature Plants
  • Structures of the TMC-1 complex illuminate mechanosensory transduction, 2022, Nature

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable frequent co-authors include Shashank Pant, Po-Chao Wen, Sepehr Dehghani-Ghahnaviyeh, Ali Rasouli, and Hale S. Hasdemir.

Emad Tajkhorshid's work is also published in several prominent venues. The most frequent publication platforms include Biophysical Journal, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD

    James C. Phillips;Rosemary Braun;Wei Wang;James C. Gumbart

  • Scalable molecular dynamics on CPU and GPU architectures with NAMD.

    James C. Phillips;David J. Hardy;Julio D.C. Maia;John E. Stone

  • Control of the selectivity of the aquaporin water channel family by global orientational tuning.

    Emad Tajkhorshid;Peter Nollert;Morten Ø. Jensen;Larry J. W. Miercke

  • Structural mechanism of plant aquaporin gating

    Susanna Törnroth-Horsefield;Yi Wang;Kristina Hedfalk;Urban Johanson

  • Free energy calculation from steered molecular dynamics simulations using Jarzynski's equality

    Sanghyun Park;Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi;Emad Tajkhorshid;Klaus Schulten

  • Rapid parameterization of small molecules using the Force Field Toolkit.

    Christopher G. Mayne;Jan Saam;Klaus Schulten;Emad Tajkhorshid

  • Energetics of glycerol conduction through aquaglyceroporin GlpF

    Morten Ø. Jensen;Sanghyun Park;Emad Tajkhorshid;Klaus Schulten

  • THEORY AND SIMULATION OF WATER PERMEATION IN AQUAPORIN-1

    Fangqiang Zhu;Emad Tajkhorshid;Klaus Schulten

  • Pressure-Induced Water Transport in Membrane Channels Studied by Molecular Dynamics

    Fangqiang Zhu;Emad Tajkhorshid;Klaus Schulten

  • Estrogen receptor alpha somatic mutations Y537S and D538G confer breast cancer endocrine resistance by stabilizing the activating function-2 binding conformation

    Sean W Fanning;Christopher G Mayne;Venkatasubramanian Dharmarajan;Kathryn E Carlson

  • Structural basis for iron piracy by pathogenic Neisseria

    Nicholas Noinaj;Nicole C. Easley;Muse Oke;Naoko Mizuno

  • Serotonin transporter-ibogaine complexes illuminate mechanisms of inhibition and transport.

    Jonathan A. Coleman;Dongxue Yang;Zhiyu Zhao;Po Chao Wen

  • X-ray structures define human P2X 3 receptor gating cycle and antagonist action

    Steven E. Mansoor;Wei Lü;Wout Oosterheert;Wout Oosterheert;Mrinal Shekhar

  • Characterization of Lipid-Protein Interactions and Lipid-Mediated Modulation of Membrane Protein Function through Molecular Simulation.

    Melanie P. Muller;Melanie P. Muller;Tao Jiang;Chang Sun;Muyun Lihan

  • Structural and functional diversity calls for a new classification of ABC transporters.

    Christoph Thomas;Stephen G. Aller;Konstantinos Beis;Konstantinos Beis;Elisabeth P. Carpenter

  • Collective diffusion model for water permeation through microscopic channels

    Fangqiang Zhu;Emad Tajkhorshid;Klaus Schulten

  • Energy transduction and alternating access of the mammalian ABC transporter P-glycoprotein

    Brandy Verhalen;Reza Dastvan;Sundarapandian Thangapandian;Yelena Peskova

  • Molecular dynamics simulations of membrane channels and transporters.

    Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi;James Gumbart;Po Chao Wen;Marcos Sotomayor

  • Structure of the Alternative Complex III in a Supercomplex with Cytochrome Oxidase

    Chang Sun;Samir Benlekbir;Padmaja Venkatakrishnan;Yuhang Wang

  • Color tuning in rhodopsins: the mechanism for the spectral shift between bacteriorhodopsin and sensory rhodopsin II.

    Michael Hoffmann;Marius Wanko;Paul Strodel;Peter H. König

  • Classical force field parameters for the heme prosthetic group of cytochrome c.

    Felix Autenrieth;Emad Tajkhorshid;Jerome Baudry;Zaida Luthey-Schulten

  • Molecular dynamics simulations of proteins in lipid bilayers

    James Gumbart;Yi Wang;Alekseij Aksimentiev;Emad Tajkhorshid

  • Exploring gas permeability of cellular membranes and membrane channels with molecular dynamics.

    Yi Wang;Jordi Cohen;Walter F. Boron;Klaus Schulten

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Schulten
Klaus Schulten University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Geoffrey L. Greene
Geoffrey L. Greene University of Chicago
James H. Morrissey
James H. Morrissey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Hassane S. Mchaourab
Hassane S. Mchaourab Vanderbilt University
Christophe Chipot
Christophe Chipot University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Benoît Roux
Benoît Roux University of Chicago
Chad M. Rienstra
Chad M. Rienstra University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert B. Gennis
Robert B. Gennis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Birgit Schiøtt
Birgit Schiøtt Aarhus University
Eric Gouaux
Eric Gouaux Oregon Health & Science University

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