Biophysical Society 63rd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

291-Pos Board B66 FOURIER-TRANSFORM INFRARED (FTIR) SPECTROSCOPY TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUE FOR ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERISTIC INFRARED BANDS OF PEPTIDE LINKAGE USING DRIED PROTEINS.  Jasmeet Kaur , Shalmoli Bhat- tacharyya 292-Pos Board B67 TOWARD ACCURATE PREDICTION AND DESIGN OF KINKED ALPHA HELI- CES IN MEMBRANE PROTEINS. Brittany Lasher , Rebecca F. Alford, Jeffrey J. Gray 293-Pos Board B68 A THERMODYNAMICALLY-RIGOROUS, BIOLOGICALLY-DRIVEN ENERGY FUNCTION FOR MEMBRANE PROTEIN MODELING AND DESIGN.  Rebecca F. Alford , Patrick Fleming, Karen G. Fleming, Jeffrey J. Gray 294-Pos Board B69 MOLECULAR MODELS OF HUMAN ELASTIN AND ELASTIN BIOMATERI- ALS. Anna Tarakanova 295-Pos Board B70 HPV VLPS AS SCAFFOLDS FOR VACCINE DESIGN. Thomas Jordan , Carolyn Barcellona, Danielle Basore, Charlie Clark, Zeyuan Guo, Sharon Isern, Kripa Nand, Gabi Rabasa, Terrence Shoemaker, Giffin Werner, Kai Xia, Xinmeng Yuan, Robert J. Linhardt, Scott Michael, Christopher Bystroff 296-Pos Board B71 REDEFINING THE PROTEIN KINASE CONFORMATIONAL SPACE WITH MA- CHINE LEARNING. Peter Man-Un Ung, Rayees Rahman, Avner Schlessinger 297-Pos Board B72 ELONGATED DENATURED CONFORMATION OF APOAZURIN: CROWD- ING AND UREA INTERPLAY. Dirar M. Homouz , Fabio Zegarra, Michael Kovermann, Andrei G. Gasic, Lucas Babel, Pernilla E. Wittung-Stafshede, Margaret S. Cheung 298-Pos Board B73 EXTENSION PROTEIN ENGINEERING IMPROVES PROTEIN STABILITY AND BINDING. Matthew J. Dominguez , Zoey L. Sharp, Valeria Jaramillo Marti- nez, Benjamin J. Lantz, Elliott J. Stollar 299-Pos Board B74 THERMAL STABILITY OF SINGLE-DOMAIN-ANTIBODIES ESTIMATED BY MD SIMULATIONS. Narutoshi Kamiya , Benson Ma, Gert-Jan Bekker 300-Pos Board B75 A MULTI-OBJECTIVE STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR DECOY GENERATION IN TEMPLATE-FREE PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDIC- TION. Ahmed Bin Zaman , Amarda Shehu 301-Pos Board B76 EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF “METAMORPHIC” PROTEINS PREDICTED FROM AN ENSEMBLE-BASED THERMODYNAMIC DESCRIP- TION.  James O. Wrabl , Miranda Russo, Jordan Hoffmann, Keila Sheetz, AndrewMunoz, Vincent J. Hilser 302-Pos Board B77 BIOMOLECULAR SIMULATIONS FOR STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY: INTEGRAT- ING CO-EVOLUTION, SAXS AND FRET. Alexander Schug 303-Pos Board B78 COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF THE DISSOCIATION PATHWAYS OF PEPTIDES. Mary C. Sherman , Luke Metzler, Michael J. Van Stipdonk 304-Pos Board B79 IN SILICO EVOLUTION OF AMINOACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES FOR INCOR- PORATION OF NONCANONICAL AMINO ACIDS. Tiberiu S. Mihaila , E. James Petersson

278-Pos Board B53 PROBING STRUCTURE, TOPOLOGY AND DYNAMICS OF KCNE3 IN PRO- TEOLIPOSOMES USING SITE-DIRECT SPIN LABELING AND EPR SPEC- TROSCOPY. Fathima Dhilhani Mohammed Faleel , Indra D. Sahu, Robert M. McCarrick, Charles R. Sanders, Gary A. Lorigan 279-Pos Board B54 PURIFICATION AND PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN KCNQ1 (100-370) POTASSIUM ION CHANNEL IN LIPID BILAYERS USING SOLID-STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY. Colleen K. Jaycox , Gunjan Dixit, Indra D. Sahu, Robert McMarrick, Charles R. Sanders, Gary A. Lorigan 280-Pos Board B55 COARSE-GRAINED SIMULATIONS OF TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAIN INTERACTIONS IN SEMAPHROIN-PLEXIN-NEUROPILIN SIGNAL SYS- TEM. Zhiyuan Meng , Zhenlu Li, Matthias Buck 281-Pos Board B56 STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS USING PULSED EPR SPECTROSCOPY. Gary A. Lorigan , Indra D. Sahu, Daniel L. Drew, Gunjan Dixit, TANBIR AHAMMAD 282-Pos Board B57 STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF THE SURFACE-EXPOSED LOOPS OF AIL DURING COMPLEMENT-MEDIATED EVASION BY Y. PESTIS . Luz Marina Meneghini , Chandan Singh, Kyungsoo Shin, L. Miya Fujimoto, Ye Tian, Francesca M. Marassi 283-Pos Board B58 NANODISCS AS A PLATFORM FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN P-GLYCO- PROTEIN IN A MEMBRANE ENVIRONMENT. Sabrina Lusvarghi , Suresh Ambudkar 284-Pos Board B59 STRUCTURAL STUDY FOR MEMBRANE PROTEIN USING SOLUTION X-RAY SCATTERING CONTRAST VARIATION. Xiaobing Zuo 285-Pos Board B60 STRUCTURE AND MECHANISMS OF AN ANION TRANSPORTER FAM- ILY. Robert M. Stroud , Jonathan Leano, Samir Batarni, Robert Edwards 286-Pos Board B61 MEMBRANE BINDING OF HIV-1 ACCESSORY PROTEIN NEF ON SPARSELY- TETHERED BILAYER LIPID MEMBRANES: AN SPR STUDY.  Christopher Kervick , Manish Aryal, Frank Heinrich, Thomas E. Smithgall, Mathias Lösche 287-Pos Board B62 FLEXIBLE LINKER REGION IN ENDOPHILIN STRUCTURE AFFECTS ITS THERMOSTABILITY. Rui Jin , Tobias Baumgart 288-Pos Board B63 CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE C-TERMINUS AND MUTATIONS TO ADENOS- INE RECEPTOR ACTIVITY AND STABILITY. Kirsten N. Swonger , Anne S. Robinson 289-Pos Board B64 TRAVEL AWARDEE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EXTRA-MEMBRANE DOMAINS OF CRGA IN LIPID BILAYERS USING SOLID STATE NMR. Yiseul Shin , Riqiang Fu, Huajune Qin, Timothy A. Cross Protein Structure, Prediction, and Design (Boards B65 - B81) 290-Pos Board B65 MODELING EPISTASIS USING PROTEIN BIOPHYSICS AND ΦX174.  Casey M. Beard

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