Biophysical Society 60th Annual Meeting

Protein Structure and Conformation III (Boards B1 - B21) 1857-Pos Board B1 PHOTO-ISOMERIZATION OF PROLYCOPENE IN CHLOROPLAST OCCURS THROUGH THE TRIPLET STATE: IMPLICATIONS ON CAROTENOID BIOSYN- THESIS. Vijaya Lakshmi Kanchustambham 1858-Pos Board B2 FUNCTION OF TYR185 IN STABILIZING THE ISOMERIZATION EQUILIB- RIUM OF THE RETINAL CHROMOPHORE IN THE BACTERIORHODOPSIN GROUND STATE. Xiaoyan Ding, Bo Peng, Yujiao Gao, Haolin Cui, Dinu Iuga, Peter Judge, Anthony Watts, Xin Zhao 1859-Pos Board B3 TRYTOPHAN MUTANTS PROBE THE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STATUS OF A COPPER BINDING, CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE ASSEMBLY PROTEIN FROM BACILLUS SUBTILIS (I.E., BSSCO). Bruce C. Hill , Shina Hussain, Diann Andrews 1860-Pos Board B4 PRESSURE-INDUCED SPECTRAL SHIFTS IN GFP MUTANTS EXPLAINED BY MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS. Emanuela Jacchetti, Edi Gabellieri, Patrizia Cioni, Ranieri Bizzarri, Riccardo Nifosi 1861-Pos Board B5 ON THE ORIGIN OF THE EXTENDED STOKE’S SHIFTS IN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS. Prem Chapagain , Chola Regmi, Bernard Gerstman 1862-Pos Board B6 EDUCATION TRAVEL AWARDEE INTERDOMAIN INTERACTIONS AND THE MECHANISM OF STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN RFAH.  Jeevan B. Gc , Bernard S. Gerstman, Prem P. Board B7 TOOLKIT FOR MULTI-CONFORMATION BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE DETERMINATION BY HIGH-PRECISION FRET AND MOLECULAR SIMULA- TIONS. Mykola Dimura , Stanislav Kalinin, Thomas Peulen, Holger Gohlke, Claus A. M. Seidel 1864-Pos Board B8 UNDERSTANDING SECONDARY STRUCTURE HYDROGEN BONDS OF PEP- TIDES USING STEERED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS (SMD).  Ferdiemar C. Guinto , C. Michael McCallum 1865-Pos Board B9 WHY DOES NATURE TIE-UP PROTEINS? STRUCTURAL INSIGHTS FROM SO- LUTION STUDIES OF A KNOTTED METHYLTRANSFERASE. David J. Burban , Patricia A. Jennings 1866-Pos Board B10 BUILDING GRAPHS TO DESCRIBE DYNAMICS, KINETICS AND ENERGETICS IN THE D-ALA:D-LAC LIGASE VANA. Guillaume Bouvier, Nathalie Duclert-Savatier, Michael Nilges, Thérèse E. Malliavin 1867-Pos Board B11 COMPLEX LASSO: NEW ENTANGLED MOTIFS IN PROTEINS.  Joanna I. Sulkowska 1868-Pos Board B12 COARSE MASTER EQUATION-BASED ANALYSIS OF N-METHYLATION AND TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON THE DYNAMICS OF CYCLIC PEPTIDES.  Aoife Crowe, Goar Sánchez-Sanz, Bartlomiej Tywoniuk, Denis C. Shields, Nicolae-Viorel Buchete 1869-Pos Board B13 INSIGHT INTO THE STRUCTURE OF LUNG SURFACTANT PROTEIN B (SP-B). Tadiwos G. Asrat , Dr.Valeri Booth Chapagain 1863-Pos

1870-Pos Board B14 STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF LIPOCALIN-TYPE PROSTAGLANDIN D SYN- THASE COMPLEXED WITH PROSTAGLANDIN J 2 . Shigeru Shimamoto , Yuta Nakahata, Yusuke Nakagawa, Yutaro Fukuda, Kosuke Aritake, Yoshihiro Urade, Yuji Hidaka 1871-Pos Board B15 THE BIO3D PROJECT: INTERACTIVE TOOLS FOR STRUCTURAL BIOINFOR- MATICS. Lars Skjærven , Shashank Jariwala, Xin-Qiu Yao, Julien Idé, Barry J. Grant 1872-Pos Board B16 PROBING LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS OF AN OXYGEN-BINDING HEME- PROTEIN USING A SPECTROSCOPICALLY ACTIVE UNNATURAL AMINO ACID. Daniyal Tariq 1873-Pos Board B17 STRUCTURAL INSIGHT INTO SPLIT GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN.  Alan Deng , Steven G. Boxer 1874-Pos Board B18 STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMICAL ASPECTS OF ELECTROSTATIC INTER- ACTIONS BY APPLYING ASPHERICAL ATOMMODEL IN HIV-1 PROTE- ASE. Prashant Kumar , Paulina Maria Dominiak 1875-Pos Board B19 PROBING THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF ALPHA HELICES VIA BUCKLING SIMULATIONS. Nicholas Jin , Markus Deserno 1876-Pos Board B20 HETEROTRIMERIC G-PROTEIN ALPHA (α) SUBUNIT FROM A. THALIANA FORMS TRIMERIC STRUCTURES IN SOLUTION. Ersoy Cholak , Ines Karmous, Bihter Avşar, Zehra Sayers 1877-Pos Board B21 PROTONATION AND DEPROTONATION REACTION OF ASPARTIC ACID SIDE CHAIN MODULATED BY THE SURROUNDING DIELECTRIC MEDIUM - AB INITIO QUANTUM CHEMICAL STUDIES ON ASPARTIC ACID IN SIXTEEN DIFFERENT SOLVENTS AND TWO PROTEIN STRUCTURES. Akshay Bhatnagar , Sruthi Varanasi, Dhruv Pramod Ghiya, Chaitanya Gali Sai Ganesh, Debashree Bandyopadhyay Protein Dynamics and Allostery III (Boards B22 - B39) 1878-Pos Board B22 OXIDATION EFFECTS ON THE VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR A2 DOMAIN INVESTIGATED BY MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS. Gianluca Board B23 INSIGHT INTO A RAPID HEME TRANSFER REACTION BETWEEN NEAR TRANSPORTER DOMAINS OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS: A THEORETI- CAL STUDY USING QM/MM AND MD SIMULATIONS. Yoshitaka Moriwaki , Tohru Terada, Kouhei Tsumoto, Kentaro Shimizu 1880-Pos Board B24 THE COUPLING OF ATP HYDROLYSIS TO RNA TRANSLOCATION IN DENGUE VIRUS NS3 HELICASE: INSIGHTS FROMMOLECULAR DYNAMICS. Martin McCullagh , Russell Davidson 1881-Pos Board B25 ALLOSTERIC NETWORKS IN THE NUCLEOSOME CORE PARTICLE. Samuel Bowerman , Jeff Wereszczynski 1882-Pos Board B26 INVESTIGATING DYNAMICS OF HLA MOLECULES BY ENERGY DISSIPA- TION. Elif Naz Bingol, Onur Sercinoglu, Pemra Ozbek Interlandi 1879-Pos

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