Biophysical Society 63rd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Protein Structure and Conformation I (Boards B1 - B34) 226-Pos Board B1 A NEW AMINO ACID SIMILARITY MATRIX BASED ON SEQUENCE COR- RELATIONS AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES YIELDS COMPLETE SEQUENCE- STRUCTURE CONGRUENCE. Kejue Jia 227-Pos Board B2 STRUCTURAL MODELING OF THE REFLECTIN PROTEIN. Dillion Fox , Loukas Petridis, Jeremy Smith, Alison Sweeney 228-Pos Board B3 MODELING ELECTROSTATIC FORCE IN PROTEIN-PROTEIN RECOGNI- TION. Mihiri Shashikala Hewa Bosthanthirige , Arghya Chakravorty, Emil Alexov 229-Pos Board B4 COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF BACKBONE CHIRAL INVERSIONS ON POLYPEPTIDE STRUCTURE. Gül H. Zerze , Pablo Debene- detti, Frank Stillinger 230-Pos Board B5 TRAVEL AWARDEE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF GP120 AND GP41 OF HIV ENV PROVIDE INSIGHTS INTO STRAIN SPECIFICITY AND THE ROLE OF THE MEMBRANE ENVIRONMENT. Louis R. Hollingsworth IV, Justin A. Lemkul, Richard D. Gandour, David R. Bevan, Anne M. Brown 231-Pos Board B6 TRAVEL AWARDEE ATOMIC SIMULATIONS OF TRP-CAGE FOLDING BY UMBRELLA SAMPLING USING Q FUNCTION AS REACTION COORDINATE. Hamed Meshkin , Fangqiang Zhu 232-Pos Board B7 MULTIPLE-WALKER CURVILINEAR-PATH UMBRELLA SAMPLING SIMULA- TIONS: TO TRACE PROTEIN-PROTEIN DISSOCIATION TRAJECTORIES AND COMPUTE POTENTIAL OF MEAN FORCE. Dhananjay C. Joshi , Jung-Hsin Lin 233-Pos Board B8 ON RESTRAINTS IN END-POINT PROTEIN-LIGAND BINDING FREE ENERGY CALCULATIONS. WilliamMenzer, Bing Xie , David D.L. Minh 234-Pos Board B9 PROTEINS THAT TELL TIME. Andy LiWang 235-Pos Board B10 MOLECULAR BASIS OF LIGAND SELECTIVITY IN AMINOGLYCOSIDE ACET- YLTRANSFERASES. Prashasti Kumar, Matthew J. Cuneo, Brinda Selvaraj, Engin H. Serpersu 236-Pos Board B11 STRUCTURAL BASIS OF ENDOCRINE FGF RECOGNITION BY BETA- KLOTHO. Sangwon Lee 237-Pos Board B12 TRAVEL AWARDEE STRUCTURAL REARRANGEMENTS IN THE C-TERMINAL DOMAIN HOMO- LOG OF ORANGE CAROTENOID PROTEIN ARE CRUCIAL FOR CAROTENOID TRANSFER. Dvir Harris , Adjele Wilson, Fernando Muzzopappa, Nikolai N. Sluchanko, Thomas Friedrich, Eugene G. Maksimov, Diana Kirilovsky, Noam Adir 238-Pos Board B13 TRAVEL AWARDEE A NEW OPEN STRUCTURE OF THE INSULIN DEGRADING ENZYME PROVIDES INSIGHTS INTO THE CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION OF THE MOLECULE. Nicolae Sapoval , Esmael J. Haddadian, Wei Jen Tang

239-Pos Board B14 STRUCTURE OF A NON-CANONICAL AND FLEXIBLE MIDDLE DOMAIN IN INNER-EAR PROTOCADHERIN-15. Brandon L. Neel , Carissa F. Klanseck, Marcos Sotomayor 240-Pos Board B15 SELENIUM NMR SPECTROSCOPY: A VERSATILE PROBE FOR BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES. Sharon Rozovsky 241-Pos Board B16 TRANSIENT STRUCTURAL DISTORTION AND OLIGOMERIZATION OF THE CAPSID FORMING PROTEIN ARC IS ATTENUATED BY LIGAND BINDING. Lau Dalby Nielsen, Simon Erlendsson, Kaare Teilum 242-Pos Board B17 THE EFFECT OF LITHIUM BINDING ON SECONDARY AND TERTIARY STRUC- TURE, HYDROPHOBICITY, THERMODYNAMICS, AND INTERACTIONS WITH INTERACTING PARTNERS OF DREAM. Samiol Azam , Jaroslava Miksovska 243-Pos Board B18 INVESTIGATING HOW PROTEIN MIXTURES INTERACT WITH GOLD NANOPARTICLES. Rebecca A. Hill , Katarina J. Boulet, Randika Perera, Mack B. Davidson, Nicholas C. Fitzkee 244-Pos Board B19 ION-DEPENDENT BINDING-SITE CONFIGURATIONS IN EF-HAND PROTEINS MEASURED WITH ULTRAFAST INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY. Sean Edington, Thomas R. Middendorf, David Brent Halling, Richard W. Aldrich, Carlos R. Baiz 245-Pos Board B20 ALKALINE CONFOMER OF HUMAN DIMERIC CYTOCHROME C.  Haotian Lei , Bruce E. Bowler 246-Pos Board B21 PRODUCTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HTLV-1-ENCODED MITO- CHONDRIAL PROTEIN P13II. Elka R. Georgieva , Peter P. Borbat, Shuyang Zhang, Andrzej Rajca, Jack H. Freed 247-Pos Board B22 HIGH CONCENTRATION OF INERT SOLUTES (FICOL 70 AND POLYETHE- LENE GLYCOL 6000) STABILIZE THE NATIVE FORM OF CLARIAS GARIEPIA- NUS GST (CGGST). Adedayo A. Fodeke , Olusanjo I. Adewale, Temidayo Ogumoyole 248-Pos Board B23 INVESTIGATING THE FUNCTION OF MUTL CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN MISMATCH REPAIR USING SMFRET. Sharonda J. LeBlanc , Pengyu Hao, Malikiya A. Hinds, Andi N. Morgan, Korene Gbozah, Keith R. Weninger, Dorothy A. Erie 249-Pos Board B24 INHERENT FLEXIBILITY AND OLIGOMERIZATION OF CLIC5A AND CLIC6 - A COMPARATIVE STATIC AND DYNAMIC STRUCTURAL STUDY. Alisa Ferofon- tov, Milit Marom, Moshe Giladi, Yoni Haitin 250-Pos Board B25 INTEGRATIVE METHODS FOR PROTEIN DYNAMICS AND AGGREGA- TION. Carlo Camilloni 251-Pos Board B26 TRAVEL AWARDEE INVESTIGATION OF EXTRACELLULAR GATE MOVEMENT IN A GLUTAMATE HOMOLOGUE. Erika Riederer , Francis Valiyaveetil

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