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Overview

Martin Zacharias is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany and has a research focus primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work prominently resides in Molecular Biology, with additional contributions in Materials Chemistry, Physiology, Cell Biology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's investigations cover a variety of main topics, including:

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior

Martin Zacharias has contributed to numerous publications over the years. Recent papers include:

  • "CHARMM-GUI supports the Amber force fields," 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • "Fatal amyloid formation in a patient's antibody light chain is caused by a single point mutation," 2020, eLife
  • "Molecular and Spectroscopic Characterization of Green and Red Cyanine Fluorophores from the Alexa Fluor and AF Series," 2021, ChemPhysChem
  • "Accurate modeling of DNA conformational flexibility by a multivariate Ising model," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Structures of peptide-free and partially loaded MHC class I molecules reveal mechanisms of peptide selection," 2020, Nature Communications

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Martin Zacharias include:

  • Shuyu Chen
  • Manuel Hitzenberger
  • Maria Reif
  • Korbinian Liebl
  • Sebastian Springer

The scientist's work appears regularly in specific publication venues with multiple contributions to each. These venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Journal of Computational Chemistry

Best Publications

  • NWChem: Past, present, and future

    E. Aprà;E. J. Bylaska;W. A. de Jong;N. Govind

  • Separation‐shifted scaling, a new scaling method for Lennard‐Jones interactions in thermodynamic integration

    M. Zacharias;T. P. Straatsma;J. A. McCammon

  • Protein–protein docking with a reduced protein model accounting for side-chain flexibility

    Martin Zacharias

  • CHARMM-GUI supports the Amber force fields

    Jumin Lee;Manuel Hitzenberger;Manuel Rieger;Nathan R. Kern

  • A family of macrodomain proteins reverses cellular mono-ADP-ribosylation

    Gytis Jankevicius;Markus Hassler;Barbara Golia;Vladimir Rybin

  • A molecular mechanics/grid method for evaluation of ligand–receptor interactions

    Brock A. Luty;Zelda R. Wasserman;Pieter F. W. Stouten;C. Nicholas Hodge

  • Single-molecule dissection of stacking forces in DNA

    Fabian Kilchherr;Christian Wachauf;Benjamin Pelz;Matthias Rief;Matthias Rief

  • A statistical analysis of random mutagenesis methods used for directed protein evolution.

    Tuck Seng Wong;Danilo Roccatano;Martin Zacharias;Ulrich Schwaneberg

  • EPSVR and EPMeta: prediction of antigenic epitopes using support vector regression and multiple server results

    Shide Liang;Shide Liang;Dandan Zheng;Daron M Standley;Bo Yao

  • Multiple molecular architectures of the eye lens chaperone αB-crystallin elucidated by a triple hybrid approach.

    Nathalie Braun;Martin Zacharias;Jirka Peschek;Andreas Kastenmüller

  • Accounting for conformational changes during protein-protein docking.

    Martin Zacharias

  • Multidomain structure and correlated dynamics determined by self-consistent FRET networks

    Björn Hellenkamp;Philipp Wortmann;Florian Kandzia;Martin Zacharias

  • Conformational Flexibility of the MHC Class I α1-α2 Domain in Peptide Bound and Free States: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

    Martin Zacharias;Sebastian Springer

  • The interface of protein-protein complexes: analysis of contacts and prediction of interactions.

    R. P. Bahadur;M. Zacharias

  • Community-wide assessment of protein-interface modeling suggests improvements to design methodology

    Sarel J. Fleishman;Sarel J. Fleishman;Timothy A. Whitehead;Eva Maria Strauch;Jacob E. Corn;Jacob E. Corn

  • Bulge-Induced Bends in RNA: Quantification by Transient Electric Birefringence

    Martin Zacharias;Paul J. Hagerman

  • Cryo-EM structure of a transthyretin-derived amyloid fibril from a patient with hereditary ATTR amyloidosis

    Matthias Schmidt;Sebastian Wiese;Volkan Adak;Jonas Engler

  • Computational prediction of protein–protein binding affinities

    Till Siebenmorgen;Martin Zacharias

  • Energy minimization in low‐frequency normal modes to efficiently allow for global flexibility during systematic protein–protein docking

    Andreas May;Martin Zacharias

  • Dissecting protein–RNA recognition sites

    Ranjit Prasad Bahadur;Martin Zacharias;Joël Janin

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes Buchner
Johannes Buchner Technical University of Munich
Danilo Roccatano
Danilo Roccatano University of Lincoln
Bernd Reif
Bernd Reif Technical University of Munich
Ulrich Schwaneberg
Ulrich Schwaneberg RWTH Aachen University
Haruki Nakamura
Haruki Nakamura Osaka University
Paul A. Bates
Paul A. Bates The Francis Crick Institute
Jeffrey J. Gray
Jeffrey J. Gray Johns Hopkins University
Juan Fernández-Recio
Juan Fernández-Recio Spanish National Research Council
Shoshana J. Wodak
Shoshana J. Wodak Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Zhiping Weng
Zhiping Weng University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

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