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Emadeddin Tajkhorshid

Emadeddin Tajkhorshid

Full-time Faculty
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics

3009 Beckman Institute
405 North Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801

(217) 244-6914


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Arcario, M. J.; Ohkubo, Y. Z.; Tajkhorshid, E., Capturing Spontaneous Partitioning of Peripheral Proteins Using a Biphasic Membrane-Mimetic Model. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2011, 115, (21), 7029-7037. 

Boettcher, J. M.; Davis-Harrison, R. L.; Clay, M. C.; Nieuwkoop, A. J.; Ohkubo, Y. Z.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Morrissey, J. H.; Rienstra, C. M., Atomic View of Calcium-Induced Clustering of Phosphatidylserine in Mixed Lipid Bilayers. Biochemistry 2011, 50, (12), 2264-2273. 

Diao, J. K.; Maniotis, A. J.; Folberg, R.; Tajkhorshid, E., Interplay of mechanical and binding properties of Fibronectin type I. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts 2010, 125, (3-6), 397-405.

Enkavi, G.; Tajkhorshid, E., Simulation of Spontaneous Substrate Binding Revealing the Binding Pathway and Mechanism and Initial Conformational Response of GlpT. Biochemistry 2010, 49, (6), 1105-1114.

Feng, J. H.; Lucchinetti, E.; Enkavi, G.; Wang, Y.; Gehrig, P.; Roschitzki, B.; Schaub, M. C.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Zaugg, K.; Zaugg, M., Tyrosine phosphorylation by Src within the cavity of the adenine nucleotide translocase 1 regulates ADP/ATP exchange in mitochondria. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 2010, 298, (3), C740-C748.

Khalili-Araghi, F.; Jogini, V.; Yarov-Yarovoy, V.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Roux, B.; Schulten, K., Calculation of the Gating Charge for the Kv1.2 Voltage-Activated Potassium Channel. Biophysical Journal 2010, 98, (10), 2189-2198.

Morrissey, J. H.; Davis-Harrison, R. L.; Tavoosi, N.; Ke, K.; Pureza, V.; Boettcher, J. M.; Clay, M. C.; Rienstra, C. M.; Ohkubo, Y. Z.; Pogorelov, T. V.; Tajkhorshid, E., Protein-Phospholipid interactions in blood clotting. Thrombosis Research 2010, 125, S23-S25.

Ohkubo, Y. Z.; Morrissey, J. H.; Tajkhorshid, E., Dynamical view of membrane binding and complex formation of human factor VIIa and tissue factor. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2010, 8, (5), 1044-1053.

Wang, Y.; Shaikh, S. A.; Tajkhorshid, E., Exploring transmembrane diffusion pathways with molecular dynamics. Physiology 2010, 25, 142-145.

Wang, Y.; Tajkhorshid, E., Nitric oxide conduction by the brain aquaporin AQP4. Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics 2010, 78, (3), 661-670.

Yang, X. D.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Chen, L. F., Functional Interplay between Acetylation and Methylation of the RelA Subunit of NF-kappa B. Molecular and Cellular Biology 2010, 30, (9), 2170-2180.

Arcario, M. J.; Tajkhorshid, E., Characterizing Membrane Bound Forms of Coagulation Factors at Atomic Resolution Exploring Differences In Membrane Affinity. Blood 2010, 116, (21), 493-493. 

Huang, Z. J.; Tajkhorshid, E., Identification of the Third Na+ Site and the Sequence of Extracellular Binding Events in the Glutamate Transporter. Biophysical Journal 2010, 99, (5), 1416-1425.

Kokhan, O.; Wraight, C. A.; Tajkhorshid, E., The Binding Interface of Cytochrome c and Cytochrome c(1) in the bc(1) Complex: Rationalizing the Role of Key Residues. Biophysical Journal 2010, 99, (8), 2647-2656.

Shaikh, S. A.; Tajkhorshid, E., Modeling and Dynamics of the Inward-Facing State of a Na+/Cl- Dependent Neurotransmitter Transporter Homologue. PLOS Computational Biology 2010, 6, (8). 

Shaikh, S. A.; Wen, P. C.; Enkavi, G.; Huang, Z. J.; Tajkhorshid, E., Capturing Functional Motions of Membrane Channels and Transporters with Molecular Dynamics Simulation. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 2010, 7, (12), 2481-2500. 

Bertelsen, K.; Paaske, B.; Thogersen, L.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Schiott, B.; Skrydstrup, T.; Nielsen, N. C.; Vosegaard, T., Residue-Specific Information about the Dynamics of Antimicrobial Peptides from H-1-N-15 and H-2 Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2009, 131, (51), 18335-18342.

Gumbart, J.; Wiener, M. C.; Tajkhorshid, E., Coupling of Calcium and Substrate Binding through Loop Alignment in the Outer-Membrane Transporter BtuB. Journal of Molecular Biology 2009, 393, (5), 1129-1142.

Law, C. J.; Enkavi, G.; Wang, D. N.; Tajkhorshid, E., Structural Basis of Substrate Selectivity in the Glycerol-3-Phosphate: Phosphate Antiporter GlpT. Biophysical Journal 2009, 97, (5), 1346-1353.

Li, J.; Tajkhorshid, E., Ion-Releasing State of a Secondary Membrane Transporter. Biophysical Journal 2009, 97, (11), L29-L31.

Morrissey, J. H.; Pureza, V.; Davis-Harrison, R. L.; Sligar, S. G.; Rienstra, C. M.; Kijac, A. Z.; Ohkubo, Y. Z.; Tajkhorshid, E., Protein-membrane interactions: blood clotting on nanoscale bilayers. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2009, 7, 169-172.

Dittmer, J.; Thogersen, L.; Underhaug, J.; Bertelsen, K.; Vosegaard, T.; Pedersen, J. M.; Schiott, B.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Skrydstrup, T.; Nielsen, N. C., Incorporation of Antimicrobial Peptides into Membranes: A Combined Liquid-State NMR and Molecular Dynamics Study of Alamethicin in DMPC/DHPC Bicelles. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2009, 113, (19), 6928-6937.

Hardy, D. J.; Stone, J. E.; Schulten, K., Multilevel summation of electrostatic potentials using graphics processing units. Parallel Computing 2009, 35, (3), 164-177.

Hayashi, S.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Schulten, K., Photochemical Reaction Dynamics of the Primary Event of Vision Studied by Means of a Hybrid Molecular Simulation. Biophysical Journal 2009, 96, (2), 403-416.

Khalili-Araghi, F.; Gumbart, J.; Wen, P. C.; Sotomayor, M.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Schulten, K., Molecular dynamics simulations of membrane channels and transporters. Current Opinion in Structural Biology 2009, 19, (2), 128-137.

Nyblom, M.; Frick, A.; Wang, Y.; Ekvall, M.; Hallgren, K.; Hedfalk, K.; Neutze, R.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Tornroth-Horsefield, S., Structural and Functional Analysis of SoPIP2;1 Mutants Adds Insight into Plant Aquaporin Gating. Journal of Molecular Biology 2009, 387, (3), 653-668.

Celik, L.; Schiott, B.; Tajkhorshid, E., Substrate binding and formation of an occluded state in the leucine transporter. Biophysical Journal 2008, 94, (5), 1600-1612.

Diao, J.; Tajkhorshid, E., Indirect role of Ca2+ in the assembly of extracellular matrix proteins. Biophysical Journal 2008, 95, (1), 120-127.

Henin, J.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Schulten, K.; Chipot, C., Diffusion of glycerol through Escherichia coli aquaglyceroporin GlpF. Biophysical Journal 2008, 94, (3), 832-839.

Huang, Z. J.; Tajkhorshid, E., Dynamics of the extracellular gate and ion-substrate coupling in the glutamate transporter. Biophysical Journal 2008, 95, (5), 2292-2300.

Isin, B.; Schulten, K.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Bahar, I., Mechanism of signal propagation upon retinal isomerization: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations of rhodopsin restrained by normal modes. Biophysical Journal 2008, 95, (2), 789-803.

Morrissey, J. H.; Pureza, V.; Davis-Harrison, R. L.; Sligar, S. G.; Ohkubo, Y. Z.; Tajkhorshid, E., Blood clotting reactions on nanoscale phospholipid bilayers. Thrombosis Research 2008, 122, S23-S26.

Ohkubo, Y. Z.; Tajkhorshid, E., Distinct structural and adhesive roles of Ca2+ in membrane binding of blood coagulation factors. Structure 2008, 16, (1), 72-81.

Shaikh, S. A.; Tajkhorshid, E., Potential Cation and H+ Binding Sites in Acid Sensing Ion Channel-1. Biophysical Journal 2008, 95, (11), 5153-5164.

Thogersen, L.; Schiott, B.; Vosegaard, T.; Nielsen, N. C.; Tajkhorshid, E., Peptide Aggregation and Pore Formation in a Lipid Bilayer: A Combined Coarse-Grained and All Atom Molecular Dynamics Study. Biophysical Journal 2008, 95, (9), 4337-4347.

Vosegaard, T.; Bertelsen, K.; Pedersen, J. M.; Thogersen, L.; Schiott, B.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Skrydstrup, T.; Nielsen, N. C., Resolution enhancement in solid-state NMR of oriented membrane proteins by anisotropic differential linebroadening. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2008, 130, (15), 5028-5029.

Wang, Y.; Ohkubo, Y. Z.; Tajkhorshid, E., Gas conduction of lipid bilayers and membrane channels. In Computational Modeling of Membrane Bilayers, Elsevier Academic Press Inc: San Diego, 2008; Vol. 60, pp 343-367.

Wang, Y.; Tajkhorshid, E., Electrostatic funneling of substrate in mitochondrial inner membrane carriers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2008, 105, (28), 9598-9603.

Wen, P. C.; Tajkhorshid, E., Dimer Opening of the Nucleotide Binding Domains of ABC Transporters after ATP Hydrolysis. Biophysical Journal 2008, 95, (11), 5100-5110.

Gumbart, J.; Wiener, M. C.; Tajkhorshid, E., Mechanics of force propagation in TonB-dependent outer membrane transport. Biophysical Journal 2007, 93, (2), 496-504.

Jensen, M. O.; Yin, Y.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Schulten, K., Sugar transport across lactose permease probed by steered molecular dynamics. Biophysical Journal 2007, 93, (1), 92-102.

Tornroth-Horsefield, S.; Hedfalk, K.; Karlsson, M.; Johanson, U.; Wang, Y.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Horsefield, R.; Nyblom, M.; Backmark, A.; Kjellbom, P.; Neutze, R., Aquaporin gating. Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics 2007, 24, (6), 719-721.

Wang, Y.; Tajkhorshid, E., Molecular mechanisms of conduction and selectivity in aquaporin water channels. Journal of Nutrition 2007, 137, (6), 1509S-1515S.

Yin, Y.; Jensen, M.; Tajkhorshid, E.; Schulten, K., Sugar transport across lactose permease probed by molecular dynamics simulations. Biophysical Journal 2007, 64A-64A.

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