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Overview

Hue Sun Chan is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has published extensively in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their primary subfield of study is Molecular Biology, with additional contributions to Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Food Science.

The scientist's research focuses on topics including RNA Research and Splicing, Protein Structure and Dynamics, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies, Enzyme Structure and Function, Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions, and Proteins in Food Systems.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • eLife
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Hue Sun Chan has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, notably:

  • Jonas Wessén
  • Tanmoy Pal
  • Suman Das
  • Yi-Hsuan Lin
  • Mingjie Zhang

Recent papers by Hue Sun Chan cover studies on intrinsically disordered proteins and phase separation phenomena. Selected recent publications include:

  • Comparative roles of charge, π, and hydrophobic interactions in sequence-dependent phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Analytical Formulation and Field-Theoretic Simulation of Sequence-Specific Phase Separation of Protein-Like Heteropolymers with Short- and Long-Spatial-Range Interactions, 2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Analytical Theory for Sequence-Specific Binary Fuzzy Complexes of Charged Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Biological condensates form percolated networks with molecular motion properties distinctly different from dilute solutions, 2023, eLife
  • Subcompartmentalization of polyampholyte species in organelle-like condensates is promoted by charge-pattern mismatch and strong excluded-volume interaction, 2021, Physical Review E

Best Publications

  • From Levinthal to pathways to funnels

    Ken A. Dill;Hue Sun Chan

  • Principles of protein folding--a perspective from simple exact models.

    Ken A. Dill;Sarina Bromberg;Kaizhi Yue;Klaus M. Fiebig

  • Cooperativity in protein-folding kinetics.

    Ken A. Dill;Klaus M. Fiebig;Hue Sun Chan

  • Protein folding in the landscape perspective: Chevron plots and non‐arrhenius kinetics

    Hue Sun Chan;Ken A. Dill

  • Structural and hydrodynamic properties of an intrinsically disordered region of a germ cell-specific protein on phase separation

    Jacob P Brady;Patrick J Farber;Ashok Sekhar;Yi-Hsuan Lin

  • Polymer principles in protein structure and stability

    Hue Sun Chan;Ken A. Dill

  • Origins of structure in globular proteins.

    Hue Sun Chan;Ken A. Dill

  • The Protein Folding Problem

    Hue Sun Chan;Ken A. Dill

  • Transition states and folding dynamics of proteins and heteropolymers

    Hue Sun Chan;Ken A. Dill

  • A test of lattice protein folding algorithms

    Kaizhi Yue;Klaus M. Fiebig;Paul D. Thomas;Hue Sun Chan

  • Comparative roles of charge, π, and hydrophobic interactions in sequence-dependent phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins.

    Suman Das;Yi-Hsuan Lin;Robert M Vernon;Julie D Forman-Kay

  • Modeling evolutionary landscapes: mutational stability, topology, and superfunnels in sequence space.

    Erich Bornberg-Bauer;Hue Sun Chan

  • Phase Separation and Single-Chain Compactness of Charged Disordered Proteins Are Strongly Correlated

    Yi-Hsuan Lin;Hue Sun Chan

  • Sequence-Specific Polyampholyte Phase Separation in Membraneless Organelles

    Yi-Hsuan Lin;Julie D. Forman-Kay;Hue Sun Chan

  • Polyelectrostatic interactions of disordered ligands suggest a physical basis for ultrasensitivity.

    Mikael Borg;Tanja Mittag;Tony Pawson;Mike Tyers

  • The effects of internal constraints on the configurations of chain molecules

    Hue Sun Chan;Ken A. Dill

  • Intrachain loops in polymers: Effects of excluded volume

    Hue Sun Chan;Ken A. Dill

  • ‘‘Sequence space soup’’ of proteins and copolymers

    Hue Sun Chan;Ken A. Dill

  • Theories for Sequence-Dependent Phase Behaviors of Biomolecular Condensates.

    Yi-Hsuan Lin;Julie D. Forman-Kay;Hue Sun Chan

  • Cooperativity, local-nonlocal coupling, and nonnative interactions: principles of protein folding from coarse-grained models.

    Hue Sun Chan;Zhuqing Zhang;Stefan Wallin;Zhirong Liu

  • Polymer principles of protein calorimetric two‐state cooperativity

    Hüseyin Kaya;Hue Sun Chan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken A. Dill
Ken A. Dill Stony Brook University
Zhirong Liu
Zhirong Liu Peking University
Julie D. Forman-Kay
Julie D. Forman-Kay University of Toronto
Erich Bornberg-Bauer
Erich Bornberg-Bauer University of Münster
Roland Winter
Roland Winter TU Dortmund University
Mingjie Zhang
Mingjie Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Mike Tyers
Mike Tyers University of Montreal
Peter Tompa
Peter Tompa Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley B. Prusiner University of California, San Francisco
Alan R. Davidson
Alan R. Davidson University of Toronto

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