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  • 2017 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Valerie Daggett is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine.

Their main areas of study involve Molecular Biology, Physiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Psychiatry and Mental Health. Research topics cover a diverse range including Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, protein structure and dynamics, cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, dementia and cognitive impairment research, oral microbiology and periodontitis research, and muscle physiology and disorders.

Frequent publication venues for Valerie Daggett include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Protein Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Journal of Physiology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Valerie Daggett are:

  • Matthew C. Childers
  • Tatum Prosswimmer
  • Dylan Shea
  • Michael Regnier
  • James D. Bryers

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Valerie Daggett include:

  • "SOBA: Development and testing of a soluble oligomer binding assay for detection of amyloidogenic toxic oligomers," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Myosin dynamics during relaxation in mouse soleus muscle and modulation by 2'-deoxy-ATP," 2020, The Journal of Physiology
  • "Amyloid-β Oligomers: Multiple Moving Targets," 2022, Biophysica
  • "Mechanistic insights into the role of amyloid-β in innate immunity," 2024, Scientific Reports
  • "Edge Strand Dissociation and Conformational Changes in Transthyretin under Amyloidogenic Conditions," 2020, Biophysical Journal

Valerie Daggett received the award of Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • The molecular basis for the chemical denaturation of proteins by urea

    Brian J. Bennion;Valerie Daggett

  • Calibration and Testing of a Water Model for Simulation of the Molecular Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids in Solution

    Michael Levitt;Miriam Hirshberg;Ruth Sharon;Keith E. Laidig

  • Is there a unifying mechanism for protein folding

    Valerie Daggett;Alan R. Fersht

  • Protein folding and unfolding at atomic resolution.

    Alan R. Fersht;Valerie Daggett

  • Potential energy function and parameters for simulations of the molecular dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids in solution

    Michael Levitt;Miriam Hirshberg;Ruth Sharon;Valerie Daggett

  • The complete folding pathway of a protein from nanoseconds to microseconds

    Ugo Mayor;Nicholas R. Guydosh;Christopher M. Johnson;J. Günter Grossmann

  • The molecular mechanism of stabilization of proteins by TMAO and its ability to counteract the effects of urea.

    Qin Zou;Brian J. Bennion;Valerie Daggett;Kenneth P. Murphy

  • The present view of the mechanism of protein folding

    Valerie Daggett;Alan Fersht

  • Protein folding and unfolding in microseconds to nanoseconds by experiment and simulation

    Ugo Mayor;Christopher M. Johnson;Valerie Daggett;Alan R. Fersht

  • Increasing temperature accelerates protein unfolding without changing the pathway of unfolding.

    Ryan Day;Brian J Bennion;Sihyun Ham;Valerie Daggett

  • From conversion to aggregation: Protofibril formation of the prion protein

    Mari L. DeMarco;Valerie Daggett

  • Counteraction of urea-induced protein denaturation by trimethylamine N-oxide: A chemical chaperone at atomic resolution

    Brian J. Bennion;Valerie Daggett

  • Distance restraints from crosslinking mass spectrometry: Mining a molecular dynamics simulation database to evaluate lysine–lysine distances

    Eric D. Merkley;Steven Rysavy;Abdullah Kahraman;Ryan P. Hafen

  • Characterization of the transition state of protein unfolding by use of molecular dynamics: chymotrypsin inhibitor 2

    Aijun Li;Valerie Daggett

  • Unifying features in protein-folding mechanisms

    Stefano Gianni;Nicholas R. Guydosh;Faaizah Khan;Teresa D. Caldas

  • The molecular basis for the inverse temperature transition of elastin.

    Bin Li;Darwin O.V Alonso;Valerie Daggett

  • Identification and characterization of the unfolding transition state of chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 by molecular dynamics simulations.

    Aijun Li;Valerie Daggett

  • Molecular dynamics simulations of helix denaturation.

    Valerie Daggett;Michael Levitt

  • Methods for molecular dynamics simulations of protein folding/unfolding in solution.

    David A C Beck;Valerie Daggett

  • Can Non-Mechanical Proteins Withstand Force? Stretching Barnase by Atomic Force Microscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulation

    Robert B. Best;Bin Li;Annette Steward;Valerie Daggett

  • STRUCTURE OF THE TRANSITION STATE FOR FOLDING OF A PROTEIN DERIVED FROM EXPERIMENT AND SIMULATION

    Valerie Daggett;Aijun Li;Laura S. Itzhaki;Daniel E. Otzen

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan R. Fersht
Alan R. Fersht University of Cambridge
Michael Levitt
Michael Levitt Stanford University
Stefano Gianni
Stefano Gianni Sapienza University of Rome
Christopher M. Johnson
Christopher M. Johnson MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Michael Regnier
Michael Regnier University of Washington
William W. Parson
William W. Parson University of Washington
Jane Clarke
Jane Clarke University of Cambridge
Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley B. Prusiner University of California, San Francisco
Gabriele Varani
Gabriele Varani University of Washington
Byron Caughey
Byron Caughey National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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