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Overview

Mordechai Sheves is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focused on neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and engineering. Within these domains, Sheves has contributed extensively to the understanding of cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, electrical and electronic engineering, electrochemistry, and biomedical engineering.

Their most frequent publication venues include Scientific Reports, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, arXiv (Cornell University), and Small.

The main topics of Mordechai Sheves's work can be summarized as follows:

  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • David Cahen
  • Ishita Das
  • Israel Pecht
  • Jerry A. Fereiro
  • Sudipta Bera

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Mordechai Sheves include:

  • "Coherent Electron Transport across a 3 nm Bioelectronic Junction Made of Multi-Heme Proteins" (2020) published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • "Solid-State Protein Junctions: Cross-Laboratory Study Shows Preservation of Mechanism at Varying Electronic Coupling" (2020) published in iScience
  • "Rhodopsin-bestrophin fusion proteins from unicellular algae form gigantic pentameric ion channels" (2022) published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • "Phototrophy by antenna-containing rhodopsin pumps in aquatic environments" (2023) published in Nature
  • "What Can We Learn from Protein-Based Electron Transport Junctions?" (2021) published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Best Publications

  • Helix movement is coupled to displacement of the second extracellular loop in rhodopsin activation.

    Shivani Ahuja;Viktor Hornak;Elsa C Y Yan;Elsa C Y Yan;Natalie Syrett

  • Protein bioelectronics: a review of what we do and do not know.

    Christopher D Bostick;Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay;Israel Pecht;Mordechai Sheves

  • Spin-dependent electron transmission through bacteriorhodopsin embedded in purple membrane

    Debabrata Mishra;Tal Z. Markus;Ron Naaman;Matthias Kettner

  • Electronic Transport via Proteins

    Nadav Amdursky;Debora Marchak;Lior Sepunaru;Israel Pecht

  • Factors affecting the C = N stretching in protonated retinal Schiff base: a model study for bacteriorhodopsin and visual pigments.

    Timor Baasov;Noga Friedman;Mordechai Sheves

  • Proteins as electronic materials: electron transport through solid-state protein monolayer junctions.

    Izhar Ron;Lior Sepunaru;Stella Itzhakov;Tatyana Belenkova

  • Coupling of retinal isomerization to the activation of rhodopsin.

    Ashish B. Patel;Evan Crocker;Markus Eilers;Amiram Hirshfeld

  • Energy coupling in an ion pump: The reprotonation switch of bacteriorhodopsin

    Mikio Kataoka;Hironari Kamikubo;Fumio Tokunagga;Leonid S. Brown

  • Controlling the pKa of the bacteriorhodopsin Schiff base by use of artificial retinal analogues.

    Mordechai Sheves;Amnon Albeck;Noga Friedman;Michael Ottolenghi

  • Location of Trp265 in metarhodopsin II : Implications for the activation mechanism of the visual receptor rhodopsin

    Evan Crocker;Markus Eilers;Shivani Ahuja;Viktor Hornak

  • Proteins as solid-state electronic conductors.

    Izhar Ron;Israel Pecht;Mordechai Sheves;David Cahen

  • Opsin shifts in bovine rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin. Comparison of two external point-charge models

    Michael G. Motto;Mordechai Sheves;Kazuo Tsujimoto;Valeria Balogh-Nair

  • Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) as an electronic conduction medium: current transport through bR-containing monolayers.

    Yongdong Jin;Noga Friedman;Mordechai Sheves;Tao He

  • Bacteriorhodopsin as an electronic conduction medium for biomolecular electronics

    Yongdong Jin;Tal Honig;Izhar Ron;Noga Friedman

  • Molecular dynamics study of bacteriorhodopsin and artificial pigments.

    William Humphrey;Ilya Logunov;Klaus Schulten;Mordechai Sheves

  • Following evolution of bacteriorhodopsin in its reactive excited state via stimulated emission pumping.

    Sanford Ruhman;Bixue Hou;Noga Friedman;Michael Ottolenghi

  • Electronic Transport via Homopeptides: The Role of Side Chains and Secondary Structure

    Lior Sepunaru;Sivan Refaely-Abramson;Robert Lovrinčić;Yulian Gavrilov

  • Alteration of pKa of the bacteriorhodopsin protonated Schiff base. A study with model compounds

    Timor Baasov;Mordechai Sheves

  • Following photoinduced dynamics in bacteriorhodopsin with 7-fs impulsive vibrational spectroscopy.

    Anat Kahan;Omer Nahmias;Noga Friedman;Mordechai Sheves

  • Location of the Retinal Chromophore in the Activated State of Rhodopsin

    Shivani Ahuja;Evan Crocker;Markus Eilers;Viktor Hornak

  • Proteins as Bioelectronic Materials: Electron Transport Through Solid-State, Protein Monolayer Junctions

    Izhar Ron;Lior Sepunaro;Stella Izhakov;Noga Friedman

Frequent Co-Authors

David Cahen
David Cahen Weizmann Institute of Science
Michael Ottolenghi
Michael Ottolenghi Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel Pecht
Israel Pecht Weizmann Institute of Science
Sanford Ruhman
Sanford Ruhman Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Friedrich Siebert
Friedrich Siebert University of Freiburg
Steven O. Smith
Steven O. Smith Stony Brook University
David S. Kliger
David S. Kliger University of California, Santa Cruz
Janos K. Lanyi
Janos K. Lanyi University of California, Irvine
Lev Weiner
Lev Weiner Weizmann Institute of Science
Ellen Wachtel
Ellen Wachtel Weizmann Institute of Science

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