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Gary P. Drobny is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines, notably focusing on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, materials science, and physics and astronomy.

Their work concentrates on several key topics, including:

  • Origins and Evolution of Life
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Diatoms and Algae Research
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics

Main subfields of study include molecular biology, biomaterials, astronomy and astrophysics, spectroscopy, and materials chemistry.

Gary P. Drobny has contributed to research published in a variety of scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication sites include:

  • ChemBioChem
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Langmuir
  • npj Computational Materials
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Gary P. Drobny include:

  • Studies of Dynamic Binding of Amino Acids to TiO2 Nanoparticle Surfaces by Solution NMR and Molecular Dynamics Simulations, 2020, Langmuir
  • Molecular recognition and specificity of biomolecules to titanium dioxide from molecular dynamics simulations, 2020, npj Computational Materials
  • A Step toward Molecular Evolution of RNA: Ribose Binds to Prebiotic Fatty Acid Membranes, and Nucleosides Bind Better than Individual Bases Do, 2020, ChemBioChem
  • Binding of Dipeptides to Fatty Acid Membranes Explains Their Colocalization in Protocells but Does Not Select for Them Relative to Unjoined Amino Acids, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Backbone Structure of Diatom Silaffin Peptide R5 in Biosilica Determined by Combining Solid-State NMR with Theoretical Sum-Frequency Generation Spectra, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

They have collaborated frequently with researchers including Mengjun Xue, Roy A. Black, Sarah L. Keller, Janani Sampath, and Jim Pfaendtner.

Best Publications

  • Assignment of the non-exchangeable proton resonances of d(C-G-C-G-A-A-T-T-C-G-C-G) using two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance methods.

    Dennis R. Hare;David E. Wemmer;Shan-Ho Chou;Gary Drobny

  • Fourier transform multiple quantum nuclear magnetic resonance

    Gary Drobny;Alexander Pines;Steven Sinton;Daniel P. Weitekamp

  • Solution Structure of a Cisplatin-Induced DNA Interstrand Cross-Link

    Huifang Huang;Leiming Zhu;Brian R. Reid;Gary P. Drobny

  • Optimization of two-dimensional homonuclear relayed coherence transfer NMR spectroscopy

    Ad Bax;Gary Drobny

  • The Amide 15N Chemical Shift Tensors of Four Peptides Determined from 13C Dipole-Coupled Chemical Shift Powder Patterns

    Terrence G. Oas;Cynthia J. Hartzell;Frederick W. Dahlquist;Gary P. Drobny

  • Quantum Description of High‐Resolution NMR in Liquids

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  • Structure and Dynamics of Hydrated Statherin on Hydroxyapatite As Determined by Solid-State NMR†

    Joanna R. Long;Wendy J. Shaw;Patrick S. Stayton;Gary P. Drobny

  • Determination of the nitrogen-15 and carbon-13 chemical shift tensors of L-[13C]alanyl-L-[15N]alanine from the dipole-coupled powder patterns

    C. J. Hartzell;M. Whitfield;T. G. Oas;G. P. Drobny

  • Windowless dipolar recoupling: the detection of weak dipolar couplings between spin 12 nuclei with large chemical shift anisotropies

    D.M. Gregory;D.J. Mitchell;J.A. Stringer;S. Kiihne

  • Chimeric peptides of statherin and osteopontin that bind hydroxyapatite and mediate cell adhesion.

    Michele Gilbert;Wendy J. Shaw;Joanna R. Long;Kjell E. Nelson

  • Sum frequency generation and solid-state NMR study of the structure, orientation, and dynamics of polystyrene-adsorbed peptides

    Tobias Weidner;Nicholas F. Breen;Kun Li;Gary P. Drobny

  • Molecular Recognition at the Protein-Hydroxyapatite Interface

    Patrick S. Stayton;Gary P. Drobny;Wendy J. Shaw;Joanna R. Long

  • Determination of local structure in solid nucleic acids using double quantum nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

    D. M. Gregory;M. A. Mehta;J. C. Shiels;G. P. Drobny

  • A peptide that inhibits hydroxyapatite growth is in an extended conformation on the crystal surface

    Joanna R. Long;John L. Dindot;Henry Zebroski;Suzanne Kiihne

  • The carbonyl 13C chemical shift tensors of five peptides determined from 15N dipole-coupled chemical shift powder patterns

    Terrence G. Oas;Cynthia J. Hartzell;Thomas J. McMahon;Gary P. Drobny

  • Solid-state NMR studies of DNA structure and dynamics

    Todd M. Alam;Gary P. Drobny

  • Determination of statherin N-terminal peptide conformation on hydroxyapatite crystals

    Wendy J. Shaw;Joanna R. Long;John L. Dindot;Allison A. Campbell

  • Folding of the C-terminal bacterial binding domain in statherin upon adsorption onto hydroxyapatite crystals

    Gil Goobes;Rivka Goobes;Ora Schueler-Furman;David Baker

  • The theory of oscillator-coupled magnetic resonance with potential applications to molecular imaging

    John A. Sidles;Joseph L. Garbini;Gary P. Drobny

  • Prebiotic amino acids bind to and stabilize prebiotic fatty acid membranes

    Caitlin E Cornell;Roy A Black;Mengjun Xue;Helen E Litz

  • The dynamic impact of CpG methylation in DNA.

    Karen B. Geahigan;Gary A. Meints;Mary E. Hatcher;John Orban

  • STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF BIOMATERIALS USING DOUBLE-QUANTUM SOLID-STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY

    G.P. Drobny;J.R. Long;T. Karlsson;W. Shaw

  • Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences

    Thomas Engel;Gary Drobny;Philip Reid

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick S. Stayton
Patrick S. Stayton University of Washington
Gabriele Varani
Gabriele Varani University of Washington
Steffen J. Glaser
Steffen J. Glaser Technical University of Munich
Wendy J. Shaw
Wendy J. Shaw Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
David E. Wemmer
David E. Wemmer University of California, Berkeley
David G. Castner
David G. Castner University of Washington
Tobias Weidner
Tobias Weidner Aarhus University
Snorri Th. Sigurdsson
Snorri Th. Sigurdsson University of Iceland
Alexander Pines
Alexander Pines University of California, Berkeley
Larry C. Sieker
Larry C. Sieker University of Washington

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