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63
Citations
13747
World Ranking
10245
National Ranking
4469

Overview

Feng Ding is affiliated with Clemson University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, medicine, and materials science, with a significant focus on molecular biology and physiology among subfields. The scientist's work includes contributions to biomaterials, materials chemistry, and neurology.

The primary topics explored by Feng Ding include:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Protein structure and dynamics
  • Aerogels and thermal insulation
  • Supramolecular self-assembly in materials
  • RNA research and splicing
  • Nanoparticle-based drug delivery
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Feng Ding has published across a range of venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

  • Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
  • Biophysical Journal
  • UNC Libraries
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent representative papers authored or co-authored by Feng Ding illustrate the diversity of their research interests and are as follows:

  • Chemical and Biophysical Signatures of the Protein Corona in Nanomedicine, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • RNA-Puzzles Round IV: 3D Structure Predictions of Four Ribozymes and Two Aptamers, 2020, RNA
  • Anionic Nanoplastic Exposure Induces Endothelial Leakiness, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Accelerated Amyloid Beta Pathogenesis by Bacterial Amyloid FapC, 2020, Advanced Science
  • Amyloid Aggregation under the Lens of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Frequent collaborators with whom Feng Ding has worked include:

  • Yunxiang Sun
  • Pu Chun Ke
  • Nikolaos K. Andrikopoulos
  • Sizhao Zhang
  • Fengjuan Huang

The multidisciplinary nature of Feng Ding's research integrates experimental and computational approaches, addressing complex topics such as protein dynamics and disease mechanisms along with materials chemistry relevant to drug delivery and nanomedicine.

Best Publications

  • Automated minimization of steric clashes in protein structures.

    Srinivas Ramachandran;Pradeep Kota;Feng Ding;Nikolay V. Dokholyan

  • Eris: an automated estimator of protein stability.

    Shuangye Yin;Feng Ding;Nikolay V Dokholyan

  • Engineered Allosteric Activation of Kinases in Living Cells

    Andrei Karginov;Feng Ding;Pradeep Kota;Nikolay Dokholyan

  • Topological determinants of protein folding

    Nikolay V. Dokholyan;Lewyn Li;Feng Ding;Eugene I. Shakhnovich

  • Ab Initio Folding of Proteins with All-Atom Discrete Molecular Dynamics

    Feng Ding;Douglas Tsao;Huifen Nie;Nikolay V. Dokholyan

  • Mechanism for the α‐helix to β‐hairpin transition

    Feng Ding;Jose M. Borreguero;Sergey V. Buldyrey;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Implications of peptide assemblies in amyloid diseases

    Pu Chun Ke;Marc Antonie Sani;Feng Ding;Aleksandr Kakinen

  • Ab initio RNA folding by discrete molecular dynamics: From structure prediction to folding mechanisms

    Feng Ding;Shantanu Sharma;Poornima Chalasani;Vadim V. Demidov

  • RNA-Puzzles: A CASP-like evaluation of RNA three-dimensional structure prediction

    José Almeida Cruz;Marc Frédérick Blanchet;Michal Boniecki;Janusz M. Bujnicki;Janusz M. Bujnicki

  • iFoldRNA: three-dimensional RNA structure prediction and folding

    Shantanu Sharma;Feng Ding;Nikolay V. Dokholyan

  • Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Amyloid β Dimer Formation

    B. Urbanc;L. Cruz;F. Ding;F. Ding;D. Sammond

  • Emergence of Protein Fold Families through Rational Design

    Feng Ding;Nikolay V Dokholyan

  • Discrete molecular dynamics: an efficient and versatile simulation method for fine protein characterization.

    David Shirvanyants;Feng Ding;Douglas Tsao;Srinivas Ramachandran

  • Molecular dynamics simulation of the SH3 domain aggregation suggests a generic amyloidogenesis mechanism.

    Feng Ding;Nikolay V. Dokholyan;Nikolay V. Dokholyan;Sergey V. Buldyrev;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Modeling Backbone Flexibility Improves Protein Stability Estimation

    Shuangye Yin;Feng Ding;Nikolay V. Dokholyan

  • RNA-Puzzles Round II: assessment of RNA structure prediction programs applied to three large RNA structures

    Zhichao Miao;Ryszard W. Adamiak;Marc Frédérick Blanchet;Michal Boniecki

  • RNA-Puzzles Round III: 3D RNA structure prediction of five riboswitches and one ribozyme

    Zhichao Miao;Ryszard W. Adamiak;Ryszard W. Adamiak;Maciej Antczak;Robert T. Batey

  • Folding Trp-cage to NMR resolution native structure using a coarse-grained protein model.

    Feng Ding;Sergey V. Buldyrev;Nikolay V. Dokholyan

  • Dynamical roles of metal ions and the disulfide bond in Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase folding and aggregation.

    Feng Ding;Nikolay V. Dokholyan

  • Direct Molecular Dynamics Observation of Protein Folding Transition State Ensemble

    Feng Ding;Nikolay V. Dokholyan;Sergey V. Buldyrev;H. Eugene Stanley

Frequent Co-Authors

Nikolay V. Dokholyan
Nikolay V. Dokholyan Pennsylvania State University
Thomas P. Davis
Thomas P. Davis University of Queensland
Kevin M. Weeks
Kevin M. Weeks University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sergey V. Buldyrev
Sergey V. Buldyrev Yeshiva University
Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Eugene I. Shakhnovich Harvard University
H. Eugene Stanley
H. Eugene Stanley Boston University
Anthony W. Purcell
Anthony W. Purcell Monash University
Jozef Adamcik
Jozef Adamcik ETH Zurich

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