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Overview

Robert L. Jernigan is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on molecular biology. Additional subfields include materials chemistry, spectroscopy, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and cell biology.

The scientist's main areas of work cover several topics, notably protein structure and dynamics, enzyme structure and function, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, genomics and phylogenetic studies, machine learning in bioinformatics, advanced proteomics techniques and applications, and microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction.

Frequent coauthors include Kejue Jia, Andrzej Kloczkowski, Pranav M. Khade, Ambuj Kumar, and Eshel Faraggi.

Jernigan's publications frequently appear in Biophysical Journal, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Methods in Molecular Biology, Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Jernigan include:

  • Protein folds vs. protein folding: Differing questions, different challenges (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Improved global protein homolog detection with major gains in function identification (2023), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Modeling SARS-CoV-2 proteins in the CASP-commons experiment (2021), Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
  • New amino acid substitution matrix brings sequence alignments into agreement with structure matches (2021), Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
  • Non-coding RNA in raw and commercially processed milk and putative targets related to growth and immune-response (2021), BMC Genomics

In 1999, Robert L. Jernigan was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Estimation of effective interresidue contact energies from protein crystal structures: quasi-chemical approximation

    Sanzo Miyazawa;Robert L. Jernigan

  • Anisotropy of Fluctuation Dynamics of Proteins with an Elastic Network Model

    A.R. Atilgan;S.R. Durell;R.L. Jernigan;M.C. Demirel

  • Residue-residue potentials with a favorable contact pair term and an unfavorable high packing density term, for simulation and threading.

    Sanzo Miyazawa;Sanzo Miyazawa;Robert L. Jernigan;Robert L. Jernigan

  • Conformational Energies of n-Alkanes and the Random Configuration of Higher Homologs Including Polymethylene

    A. Abe;R. L. Jernigan;P. J. Flory

  • A role for surface hydrophobicity in protein-protein recognition.

    L. Young;R.L. Jernigan;D.G. Covell

  • Inter-residue potentials in globular proteins and the dominance of highly specific hydrophilic interactions at close separation

    I. Bahar;I. Bahar;R.L. Jernigan

  • Structure-derived potentials and protein simulations

    Robert L Jernigan;Ivet Bahar

  • Global ribosome motions revealed with elastic network model.

    Yongmei Wang;A.J. Rader;Ivet Bahar;Robert L. Jernigan

  • Crystal structures of the CusA efflux pump suggest methionine-mediated metal transport

    Feng Long;Chih-Chia Su;Michael T. Zimmermann;Scott E. Boyken

  • Conformations of folded proteins in restricted spaces

    David G. Covell;Robert L. Jernigan

  • Protein elastic network models and the ranges of cooperativity.

    Lei Yang;Guang Song;Robert L. Jernigan

  • Dynamics of large proteins through hierarchical levels of coarse‐grained structures

    Pemra Doruker;Robert L. Jernigan;Ivet Bahar

  • Collective Motions in HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase: Examination of Flexibility and Enzyme Function

    Ivet Bahar;Burak Erman;Robert L. Jernigan;Ali Rana Atilgan

  • GOR V server for protein secondary structure prediction

    Taner Z. Sen;Robert L. Jernigan;Jean Garnier;Andrzej Kloczkowski

  • How well can we understand large-scale protein motions using normal modes of elastic network models?

    Lei Yang;Guang Song;Robert L. Jernigan

  • Crystal structure of the CusBA heavy-metal efflux complex of Escherichia coli

    Chih-Chia Su;Feng Long;Michael T. Zimmermann;Kanagalaghatta R. Rajashankar

  • Coagulation factors V and VIII and ceruloplasmin constitute a family of structurally related proteins.

    William R. Church;Robert L. Jernigan;Jay Toole;Rodney M. Hewick

  • RNABindR: a server for analyzing and predicting RNA-binding sites in proteins.

    Michael Terribilini;Jeffry D. Sander;Jae-Hyung Lee;Peter Zaback

  • Self-consistent estimation of inter-residue protein contact energies based on an equilibrium mixture approximation of residues.

    Sanzo Miyazawa;Robert L. Jernigan

  • Efficient generation of feasible pathways for protein conformational transitions.

    Moon K. Kim;Robert L. Jernigan;Gregory S. Chirikjian

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivet Bahar
Ivet Bahar University of Pittsburgh
Akinori Sarai
Akinori Sarai Kyushu Institute of Technology
Andrzej Kolinski
Andrzej Kolinski University of Warsaw
Vasant Honavar
Vasant Honavar Pennsylvania State University
Ruth Nussinov
Ruth Nussinov National Institutes of Health
Victor B. Zhurkin
Victor B. Zhurkin National Institutes of Health
Paul J. Flory
Paul J. Flory Stanford University
Ozlem Keskin
Ozlem Keskin Koç University
Gregory S. Chirikjian
Gregory S. Chirikjian University of Delaware
Burak Erman
Burak Erman Koç University

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