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Publications in Refereed Journals

    1985
  1. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Vallari, R.C. and Pietruszko, R. "Human mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibition by diethyldithiocarbamic acid methanethiol mixed disulphide: A derivative of disulfiram," FEBS Letters 179:77-81, 1985.

    2. 1986
  2. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Blatter, E.E. and Pietruszko, R. "Human aldehyde dehydrogenase: Kinetic identification of the isozymes for which biogenic aldehydes and acetaldehyde compete," Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 10: 266-277, 1986.
  3. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. McWright, R.S. and Pietruszko, R. "Bromoacetophenone as an affinity reagent for human aldehyde dehydrogenase," Biochemistry 25: 5182-5189, 1986.
  4. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Pietruszko, R. "Chemical modification of human aldehyde dehydrogenase by substrate," Biophysica Biochimica Acta 911: 306-317, 1986.

    5. 1987
  5. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Rigler, R. Nilsson, L. Hahn, U. and Saenger, W. "Protein Dynamics: A time-resolved fluorescence, energetic and molecular dynamics study of ribonuclease T1," Biophysical Chemistry 26: 247-261, 1987.
  6. Abriola, D.P. Fields, R. Stein, S. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Pietruszko, R. "Active-site identification of human aldehyde dehydrogenase," Biochemistry 26: 5679-5684, 1987.

    7. 1988
  7. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Nilsson, L. Rigler, R. and Saenger, W. "Molecular dynamic simulations of ribonuclease T1: Analysis of the effect of solvent on the structure, fluctuations and active site of the free enzyme," Biochemistry 27: 4547-4556, 1988.
  8. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Molecular modeling and dynamics of neuropeptide Y," Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design 2: 55-63, 1988.
  9. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Rigler, R. Nilsson, L. Heinemann, U. and Saenger, W. "Molecular dynamic simulations of ribonuclease T1: Effect of solvent on the interaction with 2'GMP," European Biophysics Journal 16: 287-297, 1988.

    10. 1989
  10. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Hemsen, A. Lacroix, J.S. and Lundberg, J.M. "Analysis of structure-function relationships of neuropeptide Y using molecular dynamics simulations and pharmacological activity measurements," Regulatory Peptides 25: 295-313, 1989.
  11. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Nilsson, L. Rigler, R. Heinemann, U. and Saenger, W. "Molecular dynamic simulations of ribonuclease T1: Comparison of the free enzyme and the 2'GMP-enzyme complex," Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics 6: 20-31, 1989.
  12. Chen, E. Soderberg, P.G. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Lindstrom, B. and Tengroth, B.M. "Inactivation of lactate dehydrogenase by UV radiation in the 300 nm wavelength region," Radiation and Environmental Biophysics 28: 185-191, 1989.

    13. 1990
  13. Abriola, D.P. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Pietruszko, R. "Human aldehyde dehydrogenase: Correlation of activity loss with 14C-bromoacetophenone into glutamate 268 and cysteine 302; Quarter-of-the-sites reactivity of aldehyde dehydrogenase," Biochemical Journal 266: 179-187, 1990.

    14. 1991
  14. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Rigler, R. Hahn, U. and Saenger, W. "Thermodynamic analysis of the equilibrium, association, and dissociation of 2'GMP and 3'GMP with Ribonuclease T1 at pH 5.3," Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1073: 357-365, 1991.
  15. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Principles and methods in molecular modeling and dynamics of biologically active peptides: Application to neuropeptide Y," Methods in Enzymology 202: 449-470, 1991.
  16. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Karplus, M. "Importance of attractive van der Waals contribution in empirical energy function models for the heat of vaporization of polar liquids," Journal of Physical Chemistry 95: 10559-10560, 1991.

    17. 1993
  17. Uvdal, P. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Wiegand, B.C. "Intramolecular vibrational coupling of adsorbates probed using HREELS and ab initio calculations: ethoxides absorbed on Mo(110)," Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 64/65: 193-199, 1993.

    18. 1994
  18. Yang, B. Wright, J. Eldefrawi, M.E. Poi, S.and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Conformational, aqueous solvation and pKa contributions to the binding of cocaine, WIN and a WIN vinyl analog," Journal of the American Chemical Society 116: 8722-8732, 1994.

    19. 1995
  19. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Molecular dynamics simulation analysis of a sodium dodecyl sulfate micelle in aqueous solution: Decreased fluiditiy of the micelle hydrophobic interior," Journal of Physical Chemistry 99: 1846-1855, 1995.
  20. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Sommer, M.S. and Karplus, M. "pH Dependence of binding reactions from free energy simulations and macroscopic continuum electrostatic calculations: Application to 2'GMP/3'GMP binding to ribonuclease T1," Journal of Molecular Biology 247: 774-807, 1995.
  21. Uvdal, P. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Wiegand, B.C. and Friend, C.M. "Surface-induced alteration of adsorbate intramolecular vibrational coupling: 2-propoxide on Mo(110) as determined by ab initio calculations and experiments," Physical Review B 51: 7844-7848, 1995.
  22. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Wiorkiewicz, J.K. and Karplus, M. "All-atom empirical energy function for the simulation of nucleic acids," Journal of the American Chemical Society 117: 11946-11975, 1995.

    23. 1996
  23. Yin, D. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Ab initio calculations on the use of Helium and Neon as probes of van der Waals surfaces of molecules," Journal of Physical Chemistry 100: 2588-2596, 1996.
  24. Ho, L.L. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Bash, P.A. "Proton and Hydride Transfers in Solution (I): Hybrid, QM/MM Free Energy Perturbation Study," Journal of Physical Chemistry 100: 4466-4475, 1996.
  25. Bash, P.A. Ho, L.L. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Levine, D. and Hallstrom, P. "Progress toward Chemical Accuracy in the Computer Simulations of Condensed Phase Reactions," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 93: 3698-3703, 1996.
  26. Feng, M.-H. Philippopoulos, M. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Lim, C. "Structural Characterization of the Phosphotyrosine Binding Region of a High-Affinity SH2 Domain-Phosphopeptide Complex by Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Chemical Shift Calculations," Journal of the American Chemical Society 118: 11265-11277, 1996.

    27. 1997
  27. Pavelites, J.J. Bash, P.A. Gao, J. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "A Molecular Mechanics Force Field for NAD+, NADH and the Pyrophosphate Groups of Nucleotides," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 18: 221-239, 1997.
  28. Li, Y. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Egorin, M.J. Ballesteros, M.F. Rosen, D.M. Wu, Y.-Y. Blamble, D.A. and Callery, P.S. "Structure-Function Relationships of Polyamine Transport Inhibitors in L1210 Murine Leukemia Cells," Cancer Investigation 57: 234-239, 1997.
  29. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Influence of Magnesium Ions on Duplex DNA Structural, Dynamic and Solvation Properties," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 101: 646-650, 1997.
  30. Feller. S.E. Yin, D. Pastor, R.W. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Unsaturated Lipids at Low Hydration: Parametrization and Comparison with Diffraction Studies," Biophysical Journal 73: 2269-2279, 1997.
  31. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Influence of Water and Sodium on the Energetics of Dimethylphosphate and its Implications For DNA Structure," Journal de Chimie Physique 94:1436-1447, 1997.
  32. Uvdal, P. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Vibrational Spectrum of Methoxy Adsorbed on Metal Surfaces: Ab initio Calculations and Experiments," Surface Science 393: 141-149, 1997.

    33. 1998
  33. Yin, D. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Combined Ab initio/Empirical Approach for the Optimization of Lennard-Jones Parameters," Journal of Computational Chemistry 19: 334-338, 1998.
  34. Lieske, S. Yang, B. Eldefrawi, M.E. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Wright, J. "(-)3-Substituted Ecgonine Methyl Esters as Inhibitors for Cocaine Binding and Dopamine Uptake," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 41: 864-876, 1998.
  35. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Bashford, D. Bellott, M. Dunbrack Jr. R.L. Evanseck, J. Field, M.J. Fischer, S. Gao, J. Guo, H. Ha, S. Joseph, D. Kuchnir, L. Kuczera, K. Lau, F.T.K. Mattos, C. Michnick, S. Ngo, T. Nguyen, D.T. Prodhom, B. Reiher, III, W. E. Roux, B. Schlenkrich, M. Smith, J. Stote, R. Straub, J. Watanabe, M. Wiorkiewicz-Kuczera, J. Yin, D. and Karplus, M. "All-atom empirical potential for molecular modeling and dynamics studies of protein," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 102: 3586-3616, 1998.
  36. Foloppe, N. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Conformational Properties of the Deoxyribose and Ribose Moieties of Nucleic Acids: A Quantum Mechanical Study," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 102: 6669-6678, 1998.

    37. 1999
  37. Uvdal, P. Åsmundsson, R. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Experimental vibrational shifts induced by 13C isotopic substitution assigned by ab initio calculations," Physical Review Letters 82: 125-128, 1999.
  38. Pastor, N. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Weinstein, H. "TIT for TAT: The Properties of Inosine and Adenosine in TATA Box DNA," Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Design 16: 787-810, 1999.
  39. Lee, G.U. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Force, Energy and Structure of Double-stranded DNA Oligonucleotides under Tensile Load," European Journal of Biophysics 28: 415-426, 1999.
  40. Foloppe, N. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Intrinsic Conformational Properties of Deoxyribosnucleosides: Implicated role for cytosine in the equilibrium between the A, B and Z forms of DNA," Biophysical Journal 76: 3206-3218, 1999.
  41. Foloppe, N. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Contribution of the Phosphodiester Backbone and Glycosyl Linkage Intrinsic Torsional Energetics to DNA Structure and Dynamics," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 103: 10955-10964, 1999.

    42. 2000
  42. Chen, I.-J. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Computation of the influence of chemical substitution on the pKa of pyridine using semiempirical and ab initio methods," Theoretical Chemistry Accounts 103: 483-494, 2000.
  43. Foloppe, N. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "All-atom empirical force field for nucleic acids: 1) Parameter optimization based on small molecule and condensed phase macromolecular target data," Journal of Computational Chemistry 21: 86-104, 2000.
  44. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Banavali, N. "All-atom empirical force field for nucleic acids: 2) Application to molecular dynamics simulations of DNA and RNA in solution," Journal of Computational Chemistry 21: 105-120, 2000.
  45. Chen, I.J. Neamati, N. Nicklaus, M.C. Orr, A. Anderson, L. Barchi, Jr. J.J. Kelley, J.A. Pommier, Y. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Identification of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors via Three-Dimensional Database Searching using ASV and HIV-1 Integrases as Targets," Bioroganic & Medicinal Chemistry 8: 2385-2389, 2000.
  46. Barsky, D. Foloppe, N. Ahmadia, S. Wilson, III, D.M. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "New Insights into the Structure of Abasic DNA from Molecular Dynamics Simulations," Nucleic Acids Research 28: 2613-2626, 2000.
  47. Feller, S.E. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "An Improved Empirical Potential Energy Function for Molecular Simulations of Phospholipids," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 104: 7510-7515, 2000.
  48. Ásmundssson, R. Uvdal, P. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Binary combination and overtone modes in the C-H stretch region in ethoxy adsorbed on Cu(100): Experimental and calculated vibrational spectra," Journal of Chemical Physics 113: 1258-1267, 2000.
  49. Wang, P. Nicklaus, M.C. Marquez, V.E. Brank, A.S. Christman, J. Banavali, N.K. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Use of Oligodeoxyribonucleotides with Conformationally Constrained Abasic Sugar Targets to Probe the Mechanism of Base Flipping by HhaI DNA (Cytosine C5)-Methyltransferase," Journal of the American Chemical Society 122: 12422-12434, 2000.

    50. 2001
  50. Banavali, N.B. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Reevaluation of Stereoelectronic Contributions to the Conformational Properties of the Phosphodiester and N3'-Phosphoramidate Moieties of Nucleic Acids," Journal of the American Chemical Society 123: 6747-6755, 2001.
  51. Marquez, V.E. Wang, P. Nicklaus, M.C. Maier, M. Manoharan, M. Christman, J.K. Banavali, N.K. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Inihibition of (Cytosine C5)-Methyltransferase by Oligonucleotides Containing Flexible (Cyclopentane) and Conformationally Constrained (Bicyclo[3.1.0]hexane) abasic sites," Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids 20:451-450, 2001.
  52. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Banavali, N.B. and Foloppe, N. "Development and Current Status of the CHARMM Force Field for Nucleic Acids," Biopolymers 56: 257-265, 2001.
  53. Izaguirre, G. Pietruszko, R. Cho, S. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Human Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Catalytic Activity and Structural Interactions with Coenzyme Analogs," Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 19: 429-448, 2001.
  54. Banavali, N.B. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Reexamination of the Intrinsic, Dynamic, and Hydration Properties of Phosphoramidate DNA," Nucleic Acids Research 29: 3219-3230, 2001.

    55. 2002
  55. Chen, I.-J. Yin, D. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Combined Ab initio/Empirical Approach for Optimization of Lennard-Jones Parameters for Polar-Neutral Compounds," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 23: 199-213, 2002.
  56. Feller, S.E. Gawrisch, K. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Lipid Bilayers: Intrinsic and Environmental Contributions to their Unique Physical Properties," Journal of the American Chemical Society 124: 318-326, 2002.
  57. Foloppe, N. Nilsson, L. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Ab initio conformational analysis of nucleic acid components: Intrinsic energetic contributions to nucleic acid structure and dynamics," Biopolymers 61: 61-76, 2002.
  58. Chen, I-J. Neamati, N. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Structure-Based Inhibitor Design Targeting HIV-1 Integrase," Current Drug Targets - Infectious Disorders 2: 217-234, 2002.
  59. Foloppe, N. Hartmann, B. Nilsson, L. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Intrinsic Conformational Energetics Associated with the Glycosyl Torsion in DNA: a Quantum Mechanical Study," Biophysical Journal 82: 1554-1569, 2002.
  60. Banavali, N.K. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Free Energy and Structural Pathways of Base Flipping in a DNA GCGC containing sequence," Journal of Molecular Biology 319: 141-160, 2002.
  61. Huang, N. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "An Ab Initio Quantum Mechanical Study of Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes of Biological Interest," Journal of Physical Chemistry A 106; 7820-7827, 2002.
  62. Andersson, M.P. Uvdal, P. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Fundamental, Binary Combination and Overtone Modes in Methoxy Adsorbed on Cu(100): Infrared Spectroscopy and ab initio Calculations," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106: 5200-5211, 2002.

    63. 2003
  63. Pan, Y. Huang, N. Cho, S. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Consideration of molecular weight during compound selection in virtual database screening," Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Science 43: 267-272, 2003.
  64. Huang, N. Banavali, N.K. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Protein-facilitated base flipping in DNA by cytosine-5-methyltransferase," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 100: 68-73, 2003.
  65. Chen, W. Wu, H,. Bernard, D. Metcalf, M.D. Deschamps, J. Flippen-Anderson, J. MacKerell, Jr., A.D. and Coop, A. "Rearrangement of 5-Trimethylsilylthebaine on Treatment with L-Selectride: An Efficient Synthesis of (+)-Bractazonine," Journal of Organic Chemistry 68: 1929-1932, 2003.
  66. Bernard, D. Coop, A. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "2D Conformationally Sampled Pharmacophore: A Novel Approach to Ligand Based Pharmacophore Development Applied to δ Opioid Agonists and Antagonists," Journal of the American Chemical Society 125: 3103-3107, 2003.
  67. Feig, M. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Brooks, III, C.L. "Force field influence on the observation of π-helical protein structures in molecular dynamics simulations," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107: 2831-2836, 2003.
  68. Lamoureux, G. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Roux, B. "A simple polarizable model of water based on classical Drude oscillators," Journal of Chemical Physics 119: 5185-5197, 2003.
  69. Pan, Y. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Altered structural fluctuations in duplex RNA versus DNA: A conformational switch involving base pair opening," Nucleic Acids Research 31: 7131-7140, 2003.

    70. 2004
  70. Huang, N. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Atomistic view of base flipping in DNA," Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society, London, A 362: 1439-1460, 2004.
  71. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Feig, M. and Brooks, III, C.L. "Improved treatment of the protein backbone in empirical force fields," Journal of the American Chemical Society 126: 698-699, 2004.
  72. Rosen, G.M, Beselman, A. Tsai, P. Pou, S. Mailer, C. Ichikawa, K,. Robinson, B.H. Nielsen, R. Halpern, H. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Influence of Structure on the EPR Spectrum of Spin Trapped Adducts of 5,5-Dimethyl-1-Pyrroline-N-Oxide," Journal of Organic Chemistry 69: 1321-1330, 2004.
  73. Macias, A. Hernandez, R.J. Mehta, A.K. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Ticku, M.K. and Coop, A. "3-Chloropropanoic acid (UMB66): a ligand for the gamma-hydroxybutyric acid receptor lacking a 4-hydroxyl group," Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 12: 1643-1647, 2004.
  74. Huang, N. Nagarsekar, A. Xia, G. Hayashi, J. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Identification of Non-phosphate containing Small Molecular Weight Inhibitors of the Tyrosine Kinase p56 LCK SH2 Domain via In silico Screening against the pY+3 site," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 47: 3502-3511, 2004
  75. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Feig, M. and Brooks, III C.L. "Extending the treatment of backbone energetics in protein force fields: limitations of gas-phase quantum mechanics in reproducing protein conformational distributions in molecular dynamics simulations," Journal of Computational Chemistry 25: 1400-1415, 2004.
  76. Patel, S. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Brooks, III C.L. "CHARMM fluctuating charge force field for proteins: II Protein/solvent properties from molecular dynamics simulations using a nonadditive electrostatic model," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 25: 1504-1514, 2004
  77. MacKerell, Jr., A.D. "Empirical Force Fields for Biological Macromolecules: Overview and Issues," Journal of Computational Chemistry 25: 1584-1604, 2004, [DOI]
  78. Horton, J.R. Ratner, G. Banavali, N.K. Huang, H,. Choi, Y. Maier, M.A. Marquez, V.E. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Cheng, X. "Caught in the act: visualization of an intermediate in the DNA base-flipping pathway induced by HhaI methyltransferase," Nucleic Acids Research 32: 3877-3886, 2004.
  79. Mason, P.E. Neilson, G.W. Enderby, J.E. Saboungi, M.-L. Dempsey, C.E. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Brady, J.W. "The Structure of Aqueous Guanidinium Chloride Solutions," Journal of the American Chemical Society 126: 11462-11470, 2004. [Abstract]
  80. Markowitz, J. Chen, I. Gitti, R. Baldisseri, D.M. Pan, Y. Udan, R. Carrier, F. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Weber, D.J. "Identification and Characterization of Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Calcium-Dependent S100B-p53 Tumor Suppressor Interaction," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 47: 5085-5093, 2004.
  81. Wymore, T. ,Hempel, J. Cho, S.C. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Nicholas, Jr. H.B. and Deerfield, II D.W. "Molecular recognition of aldehydes by aldehyde dehydrogenase and mechanism of nucleophile activation," Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 57: 758-777, 2004
  82. Pitman, M.C. Frank Suits, F. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Feller, S.E. "Molecular Level Organization of Saturated and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in a Phosphatidylcholine Bilayer Containing Cholesterol," Biochemistry 43: 15318-15328, 2004.

    83. 2005
  83. Huang, N. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Specificity in Protein-DNA Interactions: Energetic Recognition by the (Cytosine-C5)-methyltransferase from HhaI." Journal of Molecular Biology 345: 265-274, 2005.
  84. Wu, H. Bernard, D. Chen, W. Strahan, G.D. Deschamps, J.R. Parrish, D.A. Lewis, J.W. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Coop, A. "Functionalization of the 6,14-bridge of the orvinols. 2. Preparation of 18- and 19-hydroxyl substituted thevinols and their treatment with benzyl bromide," Journal of Organic Chemistry 70: 1907-1910, 2005.
  85. Klauda, J.B. Brooks, B.R. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Richard M. Venable, R.M. and Pastor, R.W. "An Ab Initio Study on the Torsional Surface of Alkanes and its Effect on Molecular Simulations of Alkanes and a DPPC Bilayer," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109: 5300-5311, 2005.
  86. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Empirical Force Fields for Proteins: Current Status and Future Directions," Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry 1: 91-102, 2005.
  87. Anisimov, V.M. Lamoureux, G. Vorobyov, I.V. Huang, N. Roux, B. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Determination of Electrostatic Parameters for a Polarizable Force Field Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 1: 153-168, 2005.
  88. Pan, Y. Priyakumar, D. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Conformational Determinants of Tandem GU Mismatches in RNA: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations and quantum mechanical calculations," Biochemistry 44: 1433-1443, 2005.
  89. Boresch, S. Leitgeb, M. Beselman, A. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Unexpected relative aqueous solubilities of a phosphotyrosine analogue and two phosphonate derivatives," Journal of the American Chemical Society 127: 4640-4648, 2005.
  90. Wu, H. Thatcher, L.N. Bernard, D. Parrish, D.A. Deschamps, J.R. Rice, K.C. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Coop, A. "The Position of Coordination of the Lithium Ion Determines the Regioselectivity of Demethylations of 3,4-Dimethoxymorphinans with L-Selectride," Organic Letters 7: 2531-2534, 2005.
  91. Bernard, D. Coop, A. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Computer-Aided Drug Design: Structure-Activity Relationships of Delta Opioid Ligands." Drug Design Reviews 2: 277-291, 2005.
  92. Hancock, C.N. Macias, A. Lee, E.K. Yu, S.Y. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Shapiro, P. "Identification of novel extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) docking domain inhibitors," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 48: 4586-4595, 2005.
  93. Macias, A.T. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "CH/pi Interactions Involving Aromatic Amino Acids: Refinement of the CHARMM Tryptophan Force field," Journal of Computational Chemistry 26: 1452-1463, 2005.
  94. Habtemariam, B. Anisimov, V.M. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Cooperative binding of DNA and CBFβ to the Runt domain of the CBFα studied via MD simulations," Nucleic Acids Research 33: 4212-4222, 2005. [Full Text]
  95. Vorobyov, I.V. Anisimov, V.M. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Polarizable Empirical Force Field for Alkanes Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator Model," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109: 18988-18999, 2005.
  96. Markowitz, J. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Carrier, F. Charpentier, T.H. and Weber, D. J. "Design of Inhibitors of S100B," Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 5: 1093-1108, 2005.
  97. Bernard, D. Coop, A. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Conformationally Sampled Pharmacophore for Peptidic δ Opioid Ligands," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 48: 7773-7780, 2005.
  98. Macias, A.T. Mia, M.Y. Xia, G. Hayashi, J. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Lead Validation and SAR Development via Chemical Similarity Searching: Application to Compounds Targeting the pY+3 Site of the SH2 Domain of p56 LCK," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 45: 1759-1766, 2005.

    99. 2006
  99. Priyakumar, U.D. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Base Flipping in a GCGC Containing DNA Dodecamer: A Comparative Study of the Performance of the Nucleic Acid Force Fields, CHARMM, AMBER and BMS," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2: 187-200, 2006.
  100. Buck, M. Bonnet, S. Pastor, R.W. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Importance of the CMAP correction to the CHARMM22 Protein Force Field: dynamics of hen lysozyme," Biophysical Journal 90: L36-L38, 2006. Online: Dec. 16, 2005. [Full Text]
  101. Lamoureux, G. Harder, E. Vorobyov, I.V. Roux, B. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "A polarizable model of water for molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules," Chemical Physics Letters 418: 245-249, 2006.
  102. Priyakumar, U.D. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "NMR Imino Proton Exchange Experiments on Duplex DNA Primarily Monitor the Opening of Purine Bases," Journal of the American Chemical Society (Communication) 128: 678-679, 2006.
  103. Hancock, C.N. Macias, A. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Shapiro, P. "Mitogen Activated Protein (MAP) Kinases: Development of ATP and Non-ATP Dependent Inhibitors," Medicinal Chemistry 2: 213-222, 2006.
  104. Priyakumar, U.D. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Computational Approaches for Investigating Base Flipping in Oligonucleotides," Chemical Reviews 106: 489-505, 2006.
  105. Banavali, N.B. Huang, N. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Conserved Patterns in Backbone Torsional Changes Allow For Single Base Flipping from Duplex DNA with Minimal Distortion of the Double Helix," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110: 10997-11004, 2006.
  106. Guvench, O. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Quantum Mechanical Analysis of 1,2-Ethanediol Conformational Energetics and Hydrogen Bonding," Journal of Physical Chemistry A 110: 9934-9939, 2006. [Full Text]
  107. Chen, I.-J. Taneja, R. Yin, D. Seo, P.R. Young, D. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Polli, J.E. "Chemical Substituent Effect on Pyridine Permeability and Mechanistic Insights from Computational Molecular Descriptors" Molecular Pharmaceutics 3:745-755, 2006.
  108. Harder, E. Anisimov, V.M. Vorobyov, I.V. Lopes, P.E. Noskov, S. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Roux, B. "Atomic Level Anisotropy in the Electrostatic Modeling of Lone Pairs for a Polarizable Force Field based on the Classical Drude Oscillator," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2: 1587-1597. 2006.
  109. Lopes, P.E.M. Murashov, V. Tazi, M. Demchuk, E. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Development of an Empirical Force Field for Silica. Application to the Quartz-Water Interface," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110: 2782-2792, 2006.
  110. Chen, F. Hancock, C.N. Macias, A.T. Joh, J. Still, K. Zhong, S. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Shapiro, P.S. "Characterization of ATP independent ERK inhibitors identified through in silico analysis of the active ERK2 structure," Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 16: 6281-627, 2006.

    111. 2007
  111. Macias, A.T. Banavali, N.K. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "DNA bending induced by carbocyclic sugar analogs constrained to the north conformation," Biopolymers 8: 438-449, 2006. [Abstract]
  112. Mayaan, E. Moser, A. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and York, D.M. "CHARMM force field parameters for simulation of reactive intermediates in native and thio-substituted ribozymes," Journal of Computational Chemistry 28: 495-507, 2007.
  113. Zhong, S. Macias, A.T. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Computational identification of the inhibitors of protein-protein interactions," Current Topics in Medicincal Chemistry 7: 63-82, 2007.
  114. Almond, A. Blundell, C. Higman, V. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Day, A. "Using molecular dynamics simulations to provide new insights into protein structure on the nanosecond timescale: comparison with experimental data and biological inferences for the hyaluronan-binding Link module of TSG-6," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 3: 1-16, 2007.
  115. Markowitz, J. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Weber, D.J. "A search for inhibitors of S100B, a member of the S100 family of calcium-binding proteins," Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry 7: 609-616, 2007.
  116. Vorobyov, I.V. Anisimov, V.M. Greene, S. Venable, R.M. Moser, A. Pastor, R.W. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Additive and Classical Drude Polarizable Force Fields for Linear and Cyclic Ethers," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 3: 1120-1133, 2007.
  117. Lopes, P. Lamoureux, G. Roux, B. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Polarizable Empirical Force Field for Aromatic Compounds Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 111: 2873-2885, 2007.
  118. Woodcock, H.L. Moran, D. Pastor, R.W. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Brooks, B.R. "Ab initio modeling of glycosyl torsions and anomeric effects in a model carbohydrate: 2-Ethoxy Tetrahydropyran," Biophysical Journal 93: 1-10, 2007.
  119. Guvench, O. Qu, C.K. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Tyr66 acts as a conformational switch in the closed-to-open transition of the SHP-2 N-SH2-domain phosphotyrosine-peptide binding cleft," BioMed Central (BMC) Structural Biology 7: 14, 2007.
  120. Bernard, D. Coop, A. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Quantitative Conformationally Sampled Pharmacophore for δ Opioid Ligands: Reevaluation of Hydrophobic Moieties Essential for Biological Activity," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 50: 1799-1809, 2007.
  121. Furci, L.M. Lopes, P. Eakanunkul, S. Zhong, S. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Wilks, A. "Inhibition of the Bacterial Heme Oxygenases from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (pa-HO) and Neisseria meningitidis (nm-HO): A Novel Antimicrobial Target," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 50: 3804-3813, 2007.
  122. Anisimov, V.M. Vorobyov, I.V. Roux, B. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Polarizable empirical force field for the primary and secondary alcohol series based on the classical Drude model," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 3: 1927-1946, 2007.
  123. Zhong, S. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Binding Response: A Descriptor for Selecting Ligand Binding Site on Protein Surfaces," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 47: 2303-2315, 2007.
  124. Xie, W. Pu, J, MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Gao, J. "Development of a polarizable intermolecular potential function (PIPF) for liquid amides and alkanes," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 3: 1878-1889, 2007.
  125. Thomas, J.L. Tobias, D.J. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Direct Comparisons of Experimental and Calculated Neutron Structure Factors of Pure Solvents as a Method for Force Field Validation," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 111: 12941-12944, 2007.

    126. 2008
  126. Li, L. Vorobyov, I.V. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Allen, T.W. "Is arginine charged in a membrane?" Biophysical Journal (Letter) 94: L11-L13, 2008.
  127. Priyakumar, U.D. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Atomic detail investigation of the structure and dynamics of DNA·RNA hybrids: A molecular dynamics study," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112: 1515-1524, 2008.
  128. Guvench, O. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Automated conformational energy fitting for force-field development," Journal of Molecular Modeling 14: 667-679, 2008.
  129. Chen, X. Zhong, S. Zhu, X. Dziegielewska, B. Ellenberger, T. Wilson, G.M, MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Tomkinson, A.E. "Rational Design of Human DNA Ligase Inhibitors that Target Cellular DNA Replication and Repair," Cancer Research 68: 3169-3177, 2008. PMCID: PMC2734474
  130. Harder, E. Anisimov, V.M. Whitfield, T. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Roux, B. "Understanding the Dielectric Properties of Liquid Amides from a Polarizable Force Field," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112: 3509-3521, 2008. PMID: 18302362
  131. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Nilsson, L. "Molecular dynamics simulations of nucleic acid-protein complexes," Current Opinions in Structural Biology 18: 194-199, 2008. NIHMSID197576
  132. Guvench, O. Greene, S.N. Kamath, G. Brady, J.W. Venable, R.M. Pastor, R.W. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Additive empirical force field for hexopyranose monosaccharides," Journal of Computational Chemistry 29: 2543-2564, 2008. NIHMSID 196771
  133. Lee, H. Venable, R.M. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Pastor, R.W. "Molecular dynamics studies of polyethylene oxide and polyethylene glycol: Hydrodynamic radius and shape anisotropy," Biophysical Journal 95: 1590-1599, 2008. [Abstract] PMCID: PMC2483782
  134. Yu, W.-M. Guvench, O. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Qu. C.-K. "Identification of small molecular weight inhibitors of SHP-2 tyrosine phosphatase via in silico screening combined with experimental assay." Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 51: 7396-7404, 2008. PMCID: PMC2645921
  135. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Shim, J.-H. and Anisimov, V.M. "Re-evaluation of the reported experimental values of the heat of vaporization of N-methylacetamide." Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 4: 1307-1312, 2008. [Abstract] NIHMSID197589
  136. Zhong, S. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Pose Scaling: Geometrical Assessment of Ligand Binding Poses," Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry 7: 833-852, 2008.
  137. Acharya, C. Seo, P.R. Polli, J.E. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Computational Model for Predicting Chemical Substituent Effects on Passive Drug Permeability across Parallel Artificial Membranes," Molecular Pharmaceutics 5: 818-828, 2008. [Abstract] PMID: 18710255
  138. Zhong, S. Chen, X. Zhu, X. Dziegielewska, B. Bachman, K.E. Ellenberger, T. Ballin, J.D. Wilson, G.M. Tomkinson, A.E. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Identification and Validation of Human DNA Ligase Inhibitors using Computer-Aided Drug Design," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 51: 4553-4562, 2008. PMCID: PMC2788817
  139. Charpentier, T.H. Wilder, P.T. Liriano, M.A. Varney, K.M. Pozharski, E, MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Coop, A. Toth, E.A. and Weber, D.J. "Divalent metal ion complexes of S100B in the absence and presence of pentamidine," Journal of Molecular Biology 382: 56-73, 2008. PMCID: PMC2636698
  140. Chen, F. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Luo, Y. and Shapiro, P. "Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model Organism for Evaluating Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase Docking Domain Inhibitors," Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling 2: 81-92, 2008. PMCID: PMC2648047
  141. Matthews, M.M. Weber, D.J. Shapiro, P.S. Coop, A. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Inhibition of protein-protein interactions with low molecular weight compounds," Current Trends in Medicinal Chemistry 5: 21-32, 2008. NIHMSID197598

    142. 2009
  142. Lopes, P.E.M. Demchuk, E. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Reconstruction of the (011) Surface on a-Quartz: a semi-classical ab initio Molecular Dynamics Study," International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 109: 50-64, 2009.
  143. Lopes, P.E.M. Lamoureux, G. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Polarizable Empirical Force Field for Nitrogen-containing Heteroaromatic Compounds Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator," Journal of Computational Chemistry 30: 1821-1838, 2009, PMC2704921 [DOI]
  144. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Contribution of the intrinsic mechanical energy of the phosphodiester linkage to the relative stability of the A, BI and BII forms of duplex DNA," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 113: 3235-3244, 2009. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784611/
  145. Harder, E. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Roux, B. "Electronic Polarization Effects and the Membrane Dipole Potential," Journal of the American Chemical Society 131: 2760-2761, 2009. PMID: 19199514
  146. Guvench, O. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Computational evaluation of protein - small molecule binding," Current Opinion in Structural Biology 19: 56-61, 2009. PMCID: PMC2671234
  147. González, P.M. Acharya, C. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Polli, J.E. "Inhibition Requirements of the human Apical Sodium-dependent Bile acid Transporter (hASBT) using Aminopiperidine Conjugates of glutamyl-Bile Acids," Pharmaceutical Research 26: 1665-1678, 2009. PMID: 19384469
  148. Banavali, N. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Characterizing structural transitions using localized free energy landscape analysis," PLOS One 4: e5525, 2009. [Full Text], PMCID: PMC2678196
  149. Hatcher, E. Guvench, O. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "CHARMM Additive All-Atom Force Field for Acyclic Polyalcohols, Acyclic Carbohydrates and Inositol," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 5: 1315-1327, 2009. PMCID: PMC2760998
  150. Brooks, B.R. Brooks III, C.L. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Nilsson, L. Petrella, R. J. Roux, B. Won, Y. Archontis, G. Bartels, C. Boresch, S. Caflisch, A. Caves, L. Cui, Q. Dinner, A.R. Feig, M. Fischer, S. Gao, J. Hodoscek, M. Im, W. Kuczera, K.Lazaridis, T. Ma, J. Ovchinnikov, V. Paci, E. Pastor, R.W. Post, C.B. Pu, J.Z. Schaefer, M. Tidor, B. Venable, R.V. Woodcock, H.L. Wu, X, Yang, W. York, D.M. and Karplus, M. "CHARMM: The biomolecular simulation program," Journal of Computational Chemistry 30: 1555-1614, 2009. PMCID: PMC2810661
  151. Guvench, O. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Computational Fragment-Based Binding Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation," PLoS Computational Biology 5: e1000435, 2009. PMCID: PMC2700966
  152. Charpentier, T.H. Wilder, P.T. Liriano, M.A. Varney, K.M. Zhong, S. Coop, A. Pozharski, E. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Toth, E.A. and Weber, D.J. "Small Molecules Bound to Unique Sites in the Target Protein Binding Cleft of Calcium-Bound S100B As Characterized by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and X-ray Crystallography," Biochemistry 48: 6202-6212, 2009. PMCID: PMC2804263
  153. Sorci, L. Pan,, Y. Eyobo, Y. Rodionova, I. Huang, N. Kurnasov, O. Zhong, S. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Zhang, H. and Osterman, A.L. "Targeting NAD biosynthesis in bacterial pathogens. Structure-based development of inhibitors of nicotinate mononucleotide adenylyltransferase NadD," Chemistry and Biology 16: 849-861, 2009. PMCID: PMC2770502
  154. Lopes, P.E.M. B. Roux, R. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Molecular modeling and dynamics studies with explicit inclusion of electronic polarizability. Theory and applications," Theoretical Chemistry Accounts 124: 11-28, 2009, PMC2888514
  155. Hatcher, E. Guvench, O. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "CHARMM Additive All-Atom Force Field for Aldopentofuranose Carbohydrates and Fructofuranose," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 113: 12466-76, 2009. PMCID: PMC2741538
  156. Guvench, O. Hatcher, E.R. Venable, R.M. Pastor, R.W. and MacKerell Jr., A.D. "Additive Empirical CHARMM Force Field for glycosyl linked hexopyranoses," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 5: 2353-2370, 2009, [DOI], PMC2757763
  157. Burkhard, K. Smith, S. Deshmukh, R. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Shapiro, P. "Development of extracellular signal-regulated kinase inhibitors," Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 9: 678-89, 2009. PMCID: PMC2835149
  158. Priyakumar, D. Hyeon, C. Thiramuli, D. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Formation of stacking interactions and multiple hydrogen bonds by urea with nucleic acid bases destabilizes RNA," Journal of the American Chemical Society (Communication) 131: 17759-17761, 2009. PMCID: PMC2791195

    159. 2010
  159. Cunningham, C.W. Hom, K. Acharya, C. Wilks, A. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Coop, A. "Synthesis and Characterization of a Novel Diels-Alder Adduct of Cocaine," Helvetica Chimica Acta, 93: 220-226, 2010.
  160. Baker, C. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Polarizability Rescaling and atom-based Thole Scaling in the CHARMM Drude Polarizable Force Field for Ethers," Journal of Molecular Modeling 16: 567-576, 2010. PMCID: PMC2818097
  161. Vanommeslaeghe, K. Hatcher, E. Acharya, C. Kundu, S. Zhong, S. Shim, J. E. Darian, E. Guvench, O. Lopes, P. Vorobyov, I. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "CHARMM General Force Field (CGenFF): A force field for drug-like molecules compatible with the CHARMM all-atom additive biological force fields," Journal of Computational Chemistry 31: 671-90, 2010. NIHMSID 196732, PMC2888302, [DOI]
  162. Cerchietti, L.C. Ghetu, A.F. Zhu, X. Da Silva, G.F. Zhong, S. Matthews, M. Bunting, K. Polo, J.M. Farès, C. Arrowsmith, C.H. Yang, S.N. Garcia, M. Coop, A. MacKerell, Jr. A.D., Privé, G.G. Melnick, A. "A small molecule inhibitor of BCL6 kills DLBCL cells in vitro and in vivo," Cancer Cell 17: 400-411, 2010. PMCID: PMC2858395
  163. Priyakumar, U.D. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Role of the Adenine Ligand on the Stabilization of the Secondary and Tertiary Interactions in the Adenine Riboswitch," Journal of Molecular Biology 396: 1422-1438, 2010. PMCID: PMC2824916
  164. Zhu, X. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Polarizable Empirical Force Field for Sulfur-Containing Compounds Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator Model," Journal of Computational Chemistry 31: 2330-2341, 2010. PMC2853947
  165. Yu, H. Whitfield, T.W. Harder, E. Lamoureux, G. Vorobyov, I. Anisimov, V. M. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Roux, B. "Simulating Monovalent and Divalent Ions in Aqueous Solution Using a Drude Polarizable Force Field," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 6: 774-786, 2010. NIHMSID197625, PMCID: PMC2838399
  166. Baker, C. Lopes, P. Zhu, X. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Accurate Calculation of Hydration Free Energies using the CHARMM Drude Polarizable Force Field," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 6: 1181-1198, 2010. NIHMSID184045, PMCID: PMC2853947
  167. Klauda, J.B., Venable, R.M., Freites, J.A., O'Connor, J.W., Tobias, D.J., Mondragon-Ramirez, C., Vorobyov, I., MacKerell, Jr., A.D., and Pastor, R.W. "Update of the CHARMM All-Atom Additive Force Field for Lipids: Validation on Six Lipid Types," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114: 7830-7843, 2010, [DOI]
  168. Rais, R. Acharya, C. Tririya, G, MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Polli, J. "Molecular Switch Controlling the Binding of Anionic Bile Acid Conjugates to hASBT," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 53: 4749-4760, 2010. PMCID: PMC2891776
  169. Huang, N. Kolhatkar, R. Eyobo, Y. Sorci, L, Osterman, A.L, MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Zhang, H. "Structures of bacterial NaMN adenylyltransferase in complex with inhibitors: implication for structure based drug design and improvement," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 53: 5229-5239, 2010. PMCID: PMC2915899
  170. Wilder, P.T. Charpentier, T.H. Liriano, M.A. Gianni, K. Varney, K.M. Pozharski, E. Coop, A. Toth, E.A. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Weber, D.J. "In vitro screening and structural characterization of inhibitors of the S100B-p53 interaction," International Journal of High Throughput Screening 1: 109-126, 2010. PMCID: PMC2995924
  171. Semenyuk, A. Darian, E. Liu, J. Majumdar, A. Cuenoud, B. Miller, P. MacKerell,Jr. A.D. and Seidman, M. "Targeting of an interrupted Polypurine:Polypyrimidine sequence in a Triplex forming oligonucleotide containing a novel base analog," Biochemistry 49: 7867-7878, 2010. PMCID: PMC2935506
  172. He, X. Guvench, O. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Klein, M.L. "Atomistic Simulation Study of Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonates at The Water/Air Interface," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 114: 9787-9794, 2010. PMCID: PMC2924668
  173. Raman, P. Guvench, O. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "CHARMM Additive All-Atom Force Field for Glycosidic Linkages in Carbohydrates Involving Furanoses," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 114: 12981-12994, 2010, [DOI], PMC2958709
  174. West, A.L. St. John, F. Lopes, P.E.M. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Pozharski, E. and Sarah L.J. and Michel, S.L.J. "Holo-Ni(II)HpNikR is an asymmetric tetramer containing two different nickel binding sites," Journal of the American Chemical Society 132: 14447-14456, 2010. PMCID: PMC2958704
  175. Venable, R.M. Hatcher, E. Guvench, O, MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Pastor, R.W. "Comparing Simulated and Experimental Translation and Rotation Constants: Range of Validity for Viscosity Scaling," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 114: 12501-12507, 2010. NIHMSID #272317
  176. Rais, R. Acharya, C. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Polli, J. "Structural Determinants for Transport Across the Intestinal Bile Acid Transporter Using C-24 Bile Acid Conjugates," Molecular Pharmaceutics 7: 2240-2254, 2010. PMCID: PMC2997912

    177. 2011
  177. Hatcher, E. Säwén, E. Widmalm, G. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Conformational properties of Methyl-maltoside and Methyl α- and β-cellobioside disaccharides," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 115: 597-608, 2011. NIHMSID #258949
  178. Velvadapu, V. Paul, T. Wagh, B. Klepacki, D. Guvench, O. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Andrade, R.B. "Desmethyl Macrolides: Synthesis and Evaluation of 4,8,10-Tridesmethyl Telithromycin," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2: 68-72, 2011. [Abstract]
  179. Yap, J.L. Workikar, S. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Shapiro, P. and Fletcher, S. "Small-Molecule Inhibitors of the ERK Signalling Pathway: Towards Novel Anticancer Therapeutics," ChemMedChem 6: 38-48, 2011.
  180. Acharya, C. Polli, J. Coop, A. and, MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Recent Advances in Ligand-Based Drug Design: Relevance and Utility of the Conformationally Sampled Pharmacophore Approach," Current Computer-Aided Drug Design 7: 10-22, 2011. NIHMSID # 230044
  181. Abel, S. Dupradeau, F.-Y. Raman, E.P. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Marchi, M. "Molecular Simulations of Dodecyl-β-maltoside Micelles in Water: Influence of Headgroup Conformation and the Force field Parameters," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 115: 487-499, 2011. NIHMSID #261577
  182. Oashi, T. Ringer, A.L. Raman, E.P. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Automated selection of compounds with physicochemical properties to maximize bioavailability and druglikeness," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 51: 148-158, 2011.
  183. Baker, C.M. Anisimov, V.M. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Development of CHARMM Polarizable Force Field for Nucleic Acid Bases Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator Model," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 115: 580-596, 2011. NIHMSID #259591
  184. Jiang, W. Hardy, D. Phillips, J. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Schulten, K. and Roux, B. "High-performance Scalable Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Polarizable Force Field Based on Classical Drude Oscillators in NAMD," Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2: 87-92: 2011.
  185. Boston, S.R. Deshmukh, R. Strome, S. Priyakumar, U.D. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Shapiro, P. "Characterization of ERK Docking Domain Inhibitors that Induce Apoptosis by Targeting Rsk-1 and Caspase-9," BMC Cancer 11: 7, 2011. PMCID: PMC3025971
  186. Denning, E.J. Priyakumar, U.D. Nilsson, L. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Impact of 2'-hydroxyl sampling on the conformational properties of RNA: Update of the CHARMM all-atom additive force field for RNA," Journal of Computational Chemistry 32: 1929-1943, 2011, [DOI]
  187. Darian, E. Guvench, O. Yu, B. Qu, C.-K. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Structural mechanism associated with domain opening in gain-of-function mutations in SHP2 phosphatase," Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics 79: 1573-1588, 2011. NIHMSID #263852
  188. Busby, B. Oashi, T. Willis, C.D. Borzok, M.A. Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, A. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Bloch, B.J. "Electrostatic Interactions Mediate Binding of Obscurin to Small Ankyrin 1: Biochemical and Molecular Modeling Studies," Journal of Molecular Biology 408: 321-334, 2011.
  189. Ringer, A. L. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Calculation of the Vibrational Stark Effect Using a First-Principles QM/MM Approach," Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2: 553-556, 2011. NIHMSID #275470
  190. Pastor, R.W. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Development of the CHARMM Force Field for Lipids," Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (Invited Perspective) 2: 1526-1532, 2011.
  191. Raman, E.P. Yu, W. Guvench, O. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Reproducing Crystal Binding Modes of Ligand Functional Groups using Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) Simulations," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 51: 877-896, 2011.
  192. Denning, E.J. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Impact of Arsenic/Phosphorous substitution on the intrinsic conformational properties of the phosphodiester backbone of DNA investigated using ab initio quantum mechanical calculations," Journal of the American Chemical Society (Communication) 133: 5770-5772, 2011.
  193. Shim, J., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Computational ligand-based rational design: Role of conformational sampling and force fields in model development," Med. Chem. Commun., 2: 356-370, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/c1md00044f, PMC3123535
  194. Shim, J., Coop, A. and Alexander D. MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Consensus 3D Model of μ-Opioid Receptor Ligand Efficacy based on a Quantitative Conformationally Sampled Pharmacophore" Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115: 7487-7496, 2011, PMC3113728
  195. Jo, S., Song, K.C., Desaire, H., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Im, W. "Glycan Reader: Automated Sugar Identification and Simulation Preparation for Carbohydrates and Glycoproteins," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 32, 3135-3141, 2011, PMC3188666
  196. Barr, D., Oashi, T., Burkhard, K., Lucius, S., Samadani, R., Zhang, J., Shapiro, P., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., van der Vaart, A., "The importance of domain closure for the auto-activation of ERK2," Biochemistry, 50: 8038-48, 2011, PMC3172398
  197. Mallajosyula, S.S. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Influence of Solvent and Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding on the Conformational Properties of O-Linked Glycopeptides," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115:11215-11229, 2011, PMC3179525
  198. Guvench, O., Mallajosyula, S.S. Raman, E.P., Hatcher, E. Vanommeslaeghe, K., Foster, T.J., Jamison II, F.W., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "CHARMM additive all-atom force field for carbohydrate derivatives and their utility in polysaccharide and carbohydrate-protein modeling," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computing, 7: 3162-3180, 2011, [DOI], PMC3224046
  199. Fribourg, M., Moreno, J.L., Provasi, D., Holloway, T., Mahajan, R., Park, G., Baki, L., Adney, S.K., Hatcher, C., Ruta, J.D., Albizu, L., Li, Z., Shim, J., Fabiato, A., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Brezina, V., Sealfon, S.C., Filizola, M., González-Maeso, J. and Logothetis, D.E., "Decoding the signalling of a GPCR heteromeric complex reveals the mechanism of action of antipsychotic drugs," Cell, 147: 1011-1023, 2011.
  200. Xu, Z., Chen, Y.-W., Battu, A., Wilder, P., Weber, D., Yu, W., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. Chen, L.-M., Chai, K., Johnson, M., Lin, C.-Y., "Targeting zymogen activation to control the matriptase-prostasin proteolytic cascade," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 54: 7567-7578, 2011, PMC3214968

    201. 2012
  201. Kolhatkar, V., Diao, L., Acharya, C., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Polli, J. "Identification of novel non-steroidal compounds as substrates or inhibitors of hASBT," Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 101: 116-126, 2012, DOI: 10.1002/jps.22728
  202. Zhu, X., Lopes, P.E., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Recent developments and applications of the CHARMM force fields," WIRES Computational Molecular Science, 2: 167-185, 2012, DOI: 10.1002/wcms.74, PMC3468154
  203. Hart, K., Foloppe, N., Baker, C.M., Denning, E.J., Nilsson, L. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Optimization of the CHARMM additive force field for DNA: Improved treatment of the BI/BII conformational equilibrium," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 8: 348-362, 2012, [DOI] PMC3285246
  204. Underwood, K., D'Souza, D., Mochin-Peters, M., Pierce, A., Kommineni, S., Choe, M., Bennett, J., Gnatt, A., Habtemariam, B., MacKerell, A., and Passaniti, A. "Regulation of RUNX2 transcription factor-DNA interactions and cell proliferation by Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) prohormone activity," Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 27: 913-925, 2012, 10.1002/jbmr.1504.
  205. Mallajosyula, S.S., Guvench, O., Hatcher, E., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "CHARMM Additive All-Atom Force Field for Phosphate and Sulfate Linked to Carbohydrates," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 8: 759-776, 2012, DOI: 10.1021/ct200792v, PMC3367516
  206. Yap, J.L., Cao, X., Vanommeslaeghe, A., Jung, K.-Y., Wilder, P.T., Anjan Nan, A., Hom, K., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Smythe, W.R., and Fletcher, S.,"Relaxation of the rigid backbone of an oligoamide-foldamer-based α-helix mimetic: identification of potent Bcl-xL inhibitors," Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 16: 2269-2283, 2012, DOI: 10.1039/c2ob07125h
  207. Denning, E.J. and MacKerell Jr., A.D. "Intrinsic contribution of the 2'-hydroxyl to RNA conformational heterogeneity," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134: 2800-2806, 2012, PMC3275647, [DOI]
  208. Velvadapu, V., Glassford, I., Lee, M., Paul, T., DeBrosse, C., Klepacki, D., Small, M.C., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Andrade, R.B., "Desmethyl Macrolides: Synthesis and Evaluation of 4,10-Didesmethyl Telithromycin," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 3: 211-215, 2012, PMC3374412
  209. González, P.M., Hussainzada, N., Swaan, P.W., MacKerell Jr., A.D., and Polli, J.E., "Putative irreversible inhibitors of the human sodium-dependent bile acid transporter (hASBT; SLC10A2) support the role of transmembrane domain 7 in substrate binding/translocation," Pharmaceutical Research, 29: 1821-1831, 2012, doi: 10.1007/s11095-012-0706-8.
  210. Willis, C.D., Oashi, T. Busby, B., MacKerell Jr., A.D. and Bloch, R.J. "Hydrophobic Contribution to Binding of Obscurin and Small Ankyrin 1, Molecular Membrane Biology, 29: 36-51, 2012.
  211. Raman, E.P., Vanommeslaeghe, K. and MacKerell Jr., A.D., "Site-Specific Fragment Identification Guided by Single-Step Free Energy Perturbation Calculations." Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 8: 3513-3525, 2012, PMC3490637, doi: 10.1021/ct300088r
  212. Maiti, A., Noon, M.S., MacKerell Jr., A.D., Pozharski, E. and Drohat, A.C., "Lesion processing by a repair enzyme is severely curtailed by residues needed to prevent aberrant activity on undamaged DNA," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109: 8091-8096, 2012, PMC3361372, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1201010109 Article highlighted in Chemical Research in Toxicology.
  213. Yu, W., Wu, Z., Chen, H., Liu, X., MacKerell Jr., A.D. and Lin, Z. "Comprehensive Conformational Studies of Five Tripeptides and a Deduced Method for Efficient Determinations of Peptide Structures" Journal of Physical Chemistry B., 116: 2269-2283, 2012, PMC3288331, DOI: 10.1021/jp207807a, PMC3288331
  214. Foster, T.J., MacKerell Jr., A.D. and Guvench, O. "Balancing Target Flexibility and Target Denaturation in Computational Fragment-Based Inhibitor Discovery," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 33:1880-91, 2012, PMC3438888
  215. Stavitskaya, L., Shim, J., Healy, J.R., Matsumoto, R.R., MacKerell Jr., A.D., Coop, A. "Deconstructing 14-phenylpropyloxymetopon: minimal requirements for binding to mu opioid receptors," Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 20: 4556-4563, 2012.
  216. Zhu, X., Shim, J., Lopes, P.E.M., and MacKerell Jr., A.D. "Intrinsic energy landscapes of amino acid side chains," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 52:1559-1572, 2012, PMC3398815
  217. Yu, W., He, X., Vanommeslaeghe, K. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Extension of the CHARMM General Force Field to Sulfonyl-Containing Compounds and Its Utility in Biomolecular Simulations," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 33: 2451-2468, 2012, doi: 10.1002/jcc.23067, PMC3477297
  218. Best, R.B., Zhu, X., Shim, J., Lopes, P.E.M., Mittal, J., Feig, M., and MacKerell Jr., A.D. "Optimization of the additive CHARMM all-atom protein force field targeting improved sampling of the backbone phi, psi and side-chain chi1 and chi2 dihedral angles," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 8: 3257-3273, 2012, [DOI] PMC3549273
  219. Best, R.B., Mittal, J., Feig, M., and MacKerell Jr., A.D., "Inclusion of many-body effects in the additive CHARMM protein CMAP potential results in enhanced cooperativity of Alpha-helix and Beta-hairpin formation, Biophysical Journal, 103, 1045-1051, 2012, PMC3433603
  220. Petty, A., Myshkin, E., Qin, H., Guo, H., Miao, H., Tochtrop, G.P., Hsieh, J.-T., Page, P., Liu, L., Lindner, D.J., Acharya, C., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. Ficker, E., Song, J., and Wang, B. A Small Molecule Agonist of EphA2 Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibits Tumor Cell Migration in vitro and Prostate Cancer Metastasis in vivo," PLoS One, 7: e42120., 2012, PMC3419725.
  221. Wagh, B., Paul, T., Glassford, I., DeBrosse, C., Klepacki, D., Small, M.C., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Andrade, R.B.,"Desmethyl Macrolides: Synthesis and Evaluation of 4,8-Didesmethyl Telithromycin," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 3:1013-1018, 2012, PMC3763958, DOI: 10.1021/ml200254h.
  222. McKnight, Laura; Raman, E.; Bezawada, Padmavani; Kudrimoti, Sucheta; Wilder, Paul; Hartman, Kira; Toth, Eric; Coop, Andrew; MacKerell, Alexander; Weber, David "Structure-Based Discovery of a Novel Pentamidine-Related Inibitor of the Calcium-Binding Protein S100B," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 3: 975-979, 2012, DOI: 10.1021/ml300166s, PMC3524579
  223. Vanommeslaeghe, K., and MacKerell Jr., A.D., "Automation of the CHARMM General Force Field (CGenFF) I: bond perception and atom typing," Journal of Chemical Informationa and Modeling, 52: 3144-3154, 2012, DOI: 10.1021/ci300363c, PMC3528824
  224. Vanommeslaeghe, K., Raman, E.P., and MacKerell Jr., A.D., "Automation of the CHARMM General Force Field (CGenFF) II: Assignment of bonded parameters and partial atomic charges, Journal of Chemical Informationa and Modeling, 52: 3155-3168, 2012, DOI: 10.1021/ci3003649, PMC3528813

    225. 2013
  225. Jain, V., Hilton, B., Lin, B., Patnaik, S., Liang, F., Darian, E., Zou, Y., MacKerell Jr., A.D., and Cho, B.P. "Unusual sequence effects on nucleotide excision repair of arylamine lesions: DNA bending/distortion as a primary recognition factor," Nucleic Acids Research, 41: 869-880, 2013, PMC3553991
  226. Shim, J., Zhu, X., Best, R.B., and MacKerell Jr., A.D. "(Ala)4-X-(Ala)4 as a model system for the optimization of the χ1 and χ2 amino acid side chain dihedral empirical force field parameters." Journal of Computational Chemistry, 34: 593-603, 2013, doi: 10.1002/jcc.23178, PMC3570682
  227. Luo, Y., Jiang, W., Yu, H., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Roux, B., "Simulation study of ion pairing in concentrated aqueous salt solutions with a polarizable force field," Faraday Discussions, 160, 135 - 149, 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C2FD20068F, PMC3695446
  228. Yu, W., Lopes, P.E.M., Roux, B., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Six-site Polarizable Model of Water Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator" Journal of Chemical Physics, 138, 034508 2013; http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4774577, PMC3562330
  229. Xue, F., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Heinzl, G., Mbatia, H., and Hom, K. "Room Temperature Catalyst-Free Knoevenagel Condensation: Facile Access to Isatinylidenerhodanines," Tetrahedron Letters, 54, 1700-1703, 2013
  230. Nagagarajan, S., Xue, F., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Impact of substrate protonation and tautomerization states on interactions with the active site of Arginase I," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 53: 452-460, 2013, PMC3590304
  231. McDonald, A.R., Elizabeth J. Denning, E.J, and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Impact of geometry optimization on base-base stacking interaction energies in the canonical A- and B-forms of DNA," Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 117: 1560-1568, 2013, PMC3579007.
  232. Hom, K., Heinzl, G.A., Eakanunkul, S., Lopes, P.E.M., Xue, F., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Angela Wilks, A., "Small Molecule Antivirulents Targeting the Iron-Regulated Heme Oxygenase (HemO) of P. aeruginosa," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 56: 2097-2109, 2013, PMC3643010
  233. Jung, K.-Y., Samadani, R., Chauhan, J., Nevels, K., Yap, J.L., Zhang, J., Worlikar, S., Ensey, M., Shukla, S, Salmo, R., Heinzl, G., Gordon, C., Dukes, T., Lanning, M.E., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Shapiro, P., and Fletcher, S. "Structural Modifications of (Z)-3-(2-aminoethyl)-5-(4-ethoxybenzylidene)thiazolidine-2,4-dione that Improve Selectivity for Inhibiting Melanoma Cells Containing Active ERK Signaling," Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 11: 3706-3732, 2013, PMC3663054
  234. Mallajosyula, S.S., Adams, K.M., Barchi, J.J., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Conformational determinants of the activity of Antiproliferative factor glycopeptide." Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 53: 1127-1137 2013, PMC3690088, [DOI]
  235. Cao, X., Yap, J.L., Newell-Rogers, M.K., Peddaboina, C., Hua, J., Papaconstantinou, H.T., Jupitor, D., Rai, A., Jung, K.-Y., Tubin, R.P., Yu, W., Vanommeslaeghe, K., Wilder, P.T., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Fletcher, S., and Smythe, W.R., "The novel BH3 α-helix mimetic JY-1-106 induces apoptosis in a subset of cancer cells (lung cancer, colon cancer and mesothelioma) by disrupting Bcl-xL and Mcl-1 protein-protein interactions with Bak," Molecular Cancer, 12:42, 2013, PMC3663763.
  236. He, X., Lopes, P.E.M., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Polarizable Empirical Force Field for Acyclic Poly-Alcohols Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator," Biopolymers, 99: 724-738, 2013, doi: 10.1002/bip.22286, NIHMSID #546767
  237. Lakkaraju, K.S. Xue, F., Faden, A., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Estimation of ligand efficacies of metabotropic glutamate receptors from conformational forces obtained from molecular dynamics simulations," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 53: 1337-1349, 2013, PMC3693859
  238. Small, M., Andrade, R., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Impact of Ribosomal Modification on the Binding of the Antibiotic Telithromycin using a Combined Grand Canonical Monte Carlo/Molecular Dynamics Simulation Approach," PLoS Computational Biology, 9: e1003113, 2013, PMC3681621, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003113
  239. Yu, B., Liu, W., Yu, W.-M., Loh, M., Alter, S., Guvench, O., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Tang, L.-D., and Qu, C.-K., "Targeting Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase SHP2 for the Treatment of PTPN11-Associated Malignancies," Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 12:1738-1748. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163, PMC3769526
  240. Sandineni, A., Lin, B., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Cho, B.P., "Structure and thermodynamic insights on acetylaminofluorene-modified deletion DNA duplexes as models for frameshift mutagenesis," Chemical Research in Toxicology, 26: 937-951, 2013, PMC3733349
  241. Huang, J., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "CHARMM36 all-atom additive protein force field: Validation based on comparison to NMR data," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 34: 2135-2145, 2013, PMC3800559
  242. Healy, J., Bezawada, P., Shim, J., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Coop, A., and Matsumoto, R. "Synthesis, Modeling and Pharmacological Evaluation of UMB 425, a Mixed μ Agonist/δ Antagonist Opioid Analgesic with Reduced Tolerance Liabilities," ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 4:1256-1266, 2013, PMC3778426, [DOI]
  243. Jung, K.-Y., Vanommeslaeghe, K., Lanning, M., Yap, J., Gordon, C., Wilder, P., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Fletcher, S., "Amphipathic Alpha-Helix Mimetics Based on a 1,2-Diphenylacetylene Scaffold," Organics Letters, 15: 3234-3237, 2013, PMC3663054
  244. He, X., Hatcher, E., Eriksson, L., Widmalm, G., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Bifurcated Hydrogen Bonding and Asymmetric Fluctuations in a Carbohydrate Crystal Studied via X-ray Crystallography and Computational Analysis," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 117: 7546-7553, 2013, PMC3771504
  245. Shim, J., Coop, A., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Molecular Details of the Activation of the µ Opioid Receptor," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 117; 7907-7917, 2013, PMC3735350
  246. Lin, B., Lopes, P.E.M., Roux, B., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Kirkwood-Buff Analysis of Aqueous N-Methylacetamide and Acetamide Solutions Modeled by the CHARMM Additive and Drude Polarizable Force Fields," Journal of Chemical Physics, 139: 084509, 2013, PMC3772949
  247. Chowdhary, J., Harder, E., Lopes, P.E.M., MacKerell, Jr., A.D, and Roux, B., "A Polarizable Model for Phosphatidylcholine-Containing Biological Membranes," Journal of Physical Chemistry B.,117: 9142-9160, 2013. PMC3799809
  248. Jain, V., Hilton, B., Lin, B., Jain, A., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Zou, Y., and Cho, B., "Structural and Thermodynamic Insight into Escherichia coli UvrABC-Mediated Incision of Cluster Diacetylaminofluorene Adducts on the NarI Sequence," Chemical Research in Toxicology, 26: 1251-1262, 2013, PMC3917139
  249. Raman, E.P., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Rapid estimation of hydration thermodynamics of macromolecular regions," Journal of Chemical Physics, 139: 055105, 2013, PMC3751957
  250. Hatzi, K.; Jiang, Y.; Huang, C.; Garrett-Bakelman, F.; Gearhart, M. D.; Giannopoulou, E. G.; Zumbo, P.; Kirouac, K.; Bhaskara, S.; Polo, J. M., Kormaksson, M., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Xue, F., Mason, C.E., Hiebert, S.W., Gilbert G. Prive, G.G., Cerchietti, L., Bardwell, V.J., Elemento, O., and Melnick, A. "A Hybrid Mechanism of Action for BCL6 in B Cells Defined by Formation of Functionally Distinct Complexes at Enhancers and Promoters," Cell Reports, 4, 1-11, 2013, [DOI], PMC3854650
  251. Denning, E., Thirumali, D., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Protonation of Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) is required for stabilization of RNA tertiary structure," Biophysical Chemistry, 184: 8-16, 2013. [DOI], PMC3842377
  252. Lin, B., He, X., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "A Comparative Kirkwood-Buff Study of Aqueous Methanol Solutions Modeled by the CHARMM Additive and Drude Polarizable Force Fields," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 117: 10572-10580, 2013, [DOI], PMC3787518
  253. Wagh, B., Paul, T., DeBrosse, C., Klepacki, D., Small, M.C., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Andrade, R.B."Desmethyl Macrolides: Synthesis and Evaluation of 4,8,10-Tridesmethyl Cethromycin," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 4: 1114-1118, 2013, [DOI], PMC3901159
  254. Varney, K., Bonvin, A.M.J.J., Yu, W., Ateh, E., Oashi, T., Huang, J., Diepeveen-de Buin, M., Bryant, J. Breukink, E., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and de Leeuw, E., "Turning Defense into Offense: Development of Defensin Mimetics as Novel Antibiotics targeting Lipid II," PLoS Pathogens, 9: e1003732, 2013, [DOI], PMC3820767
  255. Sabit, H., Mallajosyula, S.S., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Swaan P.W. "Transmembrane Domain II of the Human Bile Acid Transporter SLC10A2 Coordinates Sodium Translocation," Journal of Biological Chemistry, 288: 32349-32404, 2013, [DOI], PMC3820874
  256. Lopes, P.E.M., Huang, J., Shim, J., Luo, Y., Li, H., Roux, B., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Polarizable Force Field for Peptides and Proteins based on the Classical Drude Oscillator," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2013, 9: 5430-5449 [DOI], PMC3896220
  257. Raman, E.P., Yu, W., Lakkaraju, S.K., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Inclusion of multiple fragment types in the Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) approach," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 53: 3384-3398, 2013, [DOI], PMC3947602

    258. 2014
  258. Vanommeslaeghe, K., Guvench, O., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Molecular Mechanics," in "Advances in Computational Structure Based Drug Discovery", special issue of Current Pharmaceutical Design, In Press, 2014, NIHMSID #579207
  259. Oyer, J.A., Huang, X., Zheng, Y., Shim, J., Ezponda, T., Allegretta, M., Okot-Kotber, C.I., Patel, J.P., Melnick, A., Levine, R.L., Ferrando, MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Kelleher, N.L., Licht, J.D., and Popovic, R., "Point mutation E1099K in MMSET/NSD2 enhances its methyltranferase activity and leads to altered global chromatin methylation in lymphoid malignancies," Leukemia, 28: 198-201, 2014. doi: 10.1038/leu.2013.204, PMC3888226
  260. Sun, X., Rai, R., Deschamps, J.R., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Faden, A.I., and Fengtian Xue, "Boc-protected 1-(3-oxocycloalkyl)ureas via a one-step Curtius rearrangement: mechanism and scope," Tetrahedron Letters, 2014, 55, 1905-1908. [DOI]
  261. Yu, W., Lakkaraju, S.K., Raman, E.P., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) Assisted Pharmacophore Modeling," Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 2014, 28: 491-507. [DOI], PMC4048638
  262. Patel, D.S., Pendrill, R., Mallajosyula, S.S., Widmalm, G.* and MacKerell, A.D., Jr.*, "Conformational Properties of α- or β-(1→6)-linked Oligosaccharides: Hamiltonian Replica Exchange MD Simulations and NMR Experiments," Journal of Physical Chemistry B., 2014, 118: 2851-2871. [DOI], PMC3979472
  263. Kumar, P., Bojarowski, S.A., Jarzembska, K.N., Domagala, S., Vanommeslaeghe, K., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Dominiak, P.A., "A comparative study of transferable aspherical pseudoatom databank and classical force fields for predicting electrostatic interactions in molecular dimers," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2014, 10: 1652-1664. [DOI], PMC3985931
  264. Savelyev, A. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "All-Atom Polarizable Force Field for DNA Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator Model," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2014, 35: 1219-1239, PMC4075971 [DOI]
  265. Lakkaraju, S.K., Raman, E.P., Yu, W., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Sampling of Organic Solutes in Aqueous and Heterogeneous Environments Using Oscillating Excess Chemical Potentials in Grand Canonical-like Monte Carlo-Molecular Dynamics Simulations", Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 10: 2281-2290, 2014. [DOI]
  266. Lemkul, J.A., Savelyev, A., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Induced Polarization Influences the Fundamental Forces in DNA Base Flipping," Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2014, 5: 2077-2083. [DOI] [ACS LiveSlides]
  267. Venable, R.M., Sodt, A.J., Rogaski, B., Rui, H., Hatcher, E., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Pastor, R.W. and Klauda, J.B. "CHARMM All-Atom Additive Force Field for Sphingomyelin: Elucidation of Hydrogen Bonding and of Positive Curvature," Biophysical Journal, 2014, 107: 134-145. [DOI], PMC4119286
  268. Savelyev, A. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Balancing the interactions of ions, water and DNA in the Drude polarizable force field," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2014, 118: 6742-6757 [DOI], PMC4064693
  269. Li, T., Yang, D., Zhong, S., Thomas, J.M., Xue, F., Liu, J., Kong, L., Voulalas, P., Hassan, H.E., Park, J.-S., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Smith, W., "Novel LRRK2 GTP-binding inhibitors reduced degeneration in Parkinson's disease cell and mouse models," Human Molecular Genetics, 2014, 23: 6212-6222. [DOI]
  270. Glassford, I., Miseon, L., Wagh, B., Velvadapu, V., Paul, T., Sandelin, G., DeBrosse, C., Klepacki, D., Small, M.C., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Andrade, R.B.," Desmethyl Macrolides: Synthesis and Evaluation of 4-Desmethyl Telithromycin," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2014, 5, 1021-1026. [DOI], PMC4160760
  271. Huang, J. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Induction of peptide bond dipoles drives cooperative helix formation in the (AAQAA)3 peptide," Biophysical Journal, 2014, 107: 991-997. [DOI], PMC4142245
  272. Huang, J., Lopes, P.E.M., Roux, B. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Recent Advances in Polarizable Force Fields for Macromolecules: Microsecond Simulations of Proteins Using the Classical Drude Oscillator Model," Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2014, 5: 3144-3150. [DOI], PMC4167036
  273. Mallajosyula, S., Vanommeslaeghe, K., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Perturbation of Long-Range Water Dynamics as the Mechanism for the Antifreeze Activity of Antifreeze Glycoprotein," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2014 118: 11696-11706. [DOI], PMC4191590
  274. Kern, N.R., Lee, H.S., Wu, E.L., Vanommeslaeghe, K., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Klauda, J.B., Jo, S., and Im, W., "Lipid-Linked Oligosaccharides in Membranes Sample Conformations that Facilitate Binding to Oligosaccharyltransferase," Biophysical Journal, 2014, 107: 1885-1895. [DOI], PMC4213670

    275. 2015
  275. Patel, D.S., He, X., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Polarizable Empirical Force Field for Hexopyranose Monosaccharides based on the Classical Drude Oscillator," Journal of Physical Chemistry B., 2015, 119: 637-652, [DOI], PMC4143499
  276. Vanommeslaeghe, K., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "CHARMM additive and polarizable force fields for biophysics and computer-aided drug design," Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: General Subjects, 2015, 1850: 861-871. [DOI], NIHMSID626201
  277. Savelyev, A., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Differential Impact of the Monovalent Ions Li+, Na+, K+ and Rb+ on DNA Conformational Properties," Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6: 212-216, 2015, [DOI], PMC4285411
  278. Yang, M., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Conformational Sampling of Oligosaccharides Using Hamiltonian Replica Exchange with Two-Dimensional Dihedral Biasing Potentials and the Weighted Histogram Analysis Method (WHAM)," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 11: 788Ð799, 2015, [DOI], PMC4334390
  279. Yu, W., Lakkaraju, S.K., Raman, E.P., Fang, L., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Pharmacophore modeling using Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) with multiple probe molecules," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 55: 407-420, 2015, [DOI], PMC4339487
  280. Raman, E.P. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Spatial Analysis and Quantification of the Thermodynamic Driving Forces in Protein-Ligand Binding: Binding Site Variability," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137: 2608-2621, 2015, [DOI], PMC4342289
  281. Kasavajhala, K., Bikkina, S., Patil, I., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Priyakumar, U.D.,"Dispersion Interactions between Urea and Nucleobases Contribute to the Destabilization of RNA by Urea in Aqueous Solution," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119: 3755-3761, 2015, [DOI], PMC4352126
  282. Fletcher, S.F., Yu, W., Huang, J., Kwasny, S.M., Chauhan, J., Opperman, T.J., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., deLeeuw, E.P.H. "Structure-Activity Relationships of a Small-Molecule Lipid II inhibitor," Drug Design, Development and Therapy, 9: 2383-2394, 2015, [DOI], PMC4422293
  283. Lakkaraju, S.K., Yu, W., Raman, E.P., Hershfeld, A.V., Fang, L., Deshpande, D.A., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Mapping Functional Group Free Energy Patterns at Protein Occluded Sites: Nuclear Receptors and G-Protein Coupled Receptors," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 55: 700-708, 2015, [DOI], PMC4372819
  284. Samadani, R., Zhang, J., Brophy, A., Oashi, T., Priyakumar, U.D., Raman, E.P., St John, F.J., Jung, K.-Y., Fletcher, S., Pozharski, E., MacKerell, A.D., Jr.,* and Shapiro, P.,* "Small Molecule Inhibitors of ERK-mediated Immediate Early Gene Expression and Proliferation of Melanoma Cells Expressing Mutated BRaf," Biochemical Journal, 467: 425-438, 2015, [DOI], PMC4643458
  285. Vanommeslaeghe, K., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Robustness in the fitting of Molecular Mechanics parameters," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 36: 1083-1101, 2015, [DOI], PMC4412823
  286. He, X., Lakkaraju, S.K., Hanscom, M., Zhao, Z., Wu, J., Stoica, B., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Faden, A.I. and Xue, F., "Acyl-2-aminobenzimidazoles: a novel class of neuroprotective agents targeting mGluR5," Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 23: 2211-2220, 2015, [DOI],PMC4697443
  287. Savelyev, A., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Competition among Li+, Na+, K+ and Rb+ Monovalent Ions for DNA in Molecular Dynamics Simulations using the Additive CHARMM36 and Drude Polarizable Force Fields," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119: 4428-4440, 2015, [DOI], PMC4378841
  288. Mistry, P., Laird, M.H.W., Schwarz,, R.S., Greene, S., Dyson, T., Snyder, G.A., Xiao, T.S., Chauhan, J., Fletcher, S., Toshchakov, V.Y., MacKerell, A.D., Jr.,* and Vogel, S.N.,* "Inhibition of TLR2 Signaling by Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors Targeting a Pocket within the TLR2 TIR Domain," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 112: 5455Ð5460, 2015, [DOI], PMC4418912
  289. Lakkaraju, S.K., Mbatia, H., Hanscom, M., Zhao, Z., Wu, J., Stoica, B., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Faden, A.I. and Xue, F., "Cyclopropyl-containing positive allosteric modulators of metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5," Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 25: 2275-2279, 2015, [DOI], PMC4690453
  290. Mei, Y., Wang, Y., Kumari, P., Shetty, A.C., Clark, D., Gable, T., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Ma, M.Z., Weber, D., Edelman, M., Mao, L., "piRNA-L-163 interacts with p-ERM proteins in human somatic cells," Nature Communications, 6, Article number: 7316, 2015, [DOI], PMC4557300
  291. Lemkul, J.A., Roux, B., van der Spoel, D and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Implementation of Extended Lagrangian Dynamics in GROMACS for Polarizable Simulations Using the Classical Drude Oscillator Model," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 36: 1480-1486, 2015, [DOI], PMC4481176
  292. Yang, M., Huang, J., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Enhanced Conformational Sampling Using Replica Exchange with Concurrent Solute Scaling and Hamiltonian Biasing Realized in One Dimension," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 11: 2855-2867, 2015, [DOI], PMC4463548
  293. Jana, M. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "CHARMM Drude Polarizable Force Field for Aldopentofuranoses and Methyl-aldopentofuranosides," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119: 7846-7859, 2015, [DOI], PMC4483154
  294. Yang, W., Sun, X., Yu, W., Rai, R., Deschamps, J., Mitchell, L., Jiang, C., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Xue, F., "Facile Synthesis of Spirocyclic Lactams from alpha-keto Carboxylic Acids." Organic Letters, 17: 3070-3073, 2015, [DOI]
  295. Chen, W., Shi, C., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Shen, J. "Conformational Dynamics of Two Natively Unfolded Fragment Peptides: Comparison of the AMBER and CHARMM Force Fields," The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119: 7902-7910, 2015, [DOI], PMC4685472
  296. Passaniti, A., Brusgard, J., Choe, M., Chumsri, S., Renoud, K., MacKerell, A.D., Jr, and Sudol, M., "RUNX2 and TAZ-dependent signaling pathways regulate soluble E-Cadherin levels and tumorsphere formation in breast cancer cells," Oncotarget, 6: 28132-28150. 2015, [DOI]
  297. Domene, C., Jorgensen, C., Vanommeslaeghe, K., Schofield, C., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Quantifying the binding interaction between the hypoxia-inducible transcription factor and the von Hippel Lindau suppressor," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 11: 3946-3954, 2015, [DOI]
  298. Savelyev, A., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Differential Deformability of the DNA Minor Groove and Altered BI/BII Backbone Conformational Equilibrium by the Monovalent Ions Li+, Na+, K+ and Rb+ via Water-Mediated Hydrogen Bonding," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 11: 4473-4485, 2015, [DOI], PMC4654687
  299. Drennen, B., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Fletcher, S. "Expedient access to alpha-helix mimetics based on an isocinchomeronic acid core," Tetrahedron Letters, 56, 6819-6822, [DOI]
  300. Lee, J., Cheng, X., Swails, J., Yeom, M.Sun.,Eastman, P., Lemkul, J., Wei, S., Buckner, J., Jeong, J.Ch., Qi, Y., Jo, S., Pande, V., Case, D., Brooks, C., MacKerell, A, Klauda, J., and Im, W., "CHARMM-GUI Input Generator for NAMD, GROMACS, AMBER, OpenMM, and CHARMM/OpenMM Simulations using the CHARMM36 Additive Force Field," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 12: 405-413, 2015, PMC4712441, [DOI]
  301. Wu, E.L., Qi, Y., Park, S., Mallajosyula, S.S., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Klauda, J.B., and Im, W., "Insight into Early-stage Unfolding of GPI-anchored Human Prion Protein," Biophysical Journal, 109: 2090-2100, 2015, PMC4656879, [DOI]
  302. Lakkaraju, S.K., Lemkul, J.A., Huang, J., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "DIRECT-ID: An Automated Method to Identify and Quantify Conformational Variations - Application to Beta2-adrenergic GPCR," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 37: 416-425, 2015, PMC4756637, [DOI]
  303. Lemkul, J.A., Huang, J. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Induced Dipole-Dipole Interactions Influence the Unfolding Pathways of Wild-Type and Mutant Amyloid β-Peptides," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119: 15574-15582, 2015, PMC4690986, [DOI]

    304. 2016
  304. Xu, Y., Vanommeslaeghe, K., Aleksandrov, A., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. Nilsson, L., "Additive CHARMM force field for naturally occurring modified ribonucleotides," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 37: 896-912, 2016, PMC4801715, [DOI]
  305. Lemkul, J.A., Huang, J., Roux, B., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "An Empirical Polarizable Force Field Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator Model: Development History and Recent Applications," Chemical Reviews, 116: 4983-5013, 2016, PMC4865892, [DOI]
  306. Lanning, M.E., Yu,W., Yap, J.l., Chauhan, J., Chen, L., Whiting, E., Pidugu, L.S., Atkinson, T, Bailey, H., Li, W., Roth, B.M., Hynicka,L., Chesko, K., Toth, E.A., Shapiro, P., MacKerell, Jr, A.D., Wilder, P.T. and Fletcher, F., "Structure-Based Design of N-Substituted 1-Hydroxy-4-sulfamoyl-2-naphthoates as Selective Inhibitors of the Mcl-1 Oncoprotein," European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 113: 272-292, 2016, PMC4811700, [DOI]
  307. Cavalier, M.C., Ansari, M.I., Pierce, A.D., Wilder, P.T., McKnight, L.E., Raman, E.P., Neau, D.B., Bezawada, P., Alasady, M.J., Varney, K.M., Toth, E.A., MacKerell Jr., A.D., Coop, A., Weber, D.J., "Small Molecule Inhibitors of Ca2+-S100B Reveal Two Protein Conformations," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 59: 592-608, 2016, PMC4732916, [DOI]
  308. Glassford, I., Teija, C.N., Daher, S.S., Weil, A., Small, M.C., Redhu, S.K., Colussi, D.J., Jacobson, M.A., Childers, W., Buttaro, B., Nicholson, A.W., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Cooperman, B.S., Andrade, R.B. "Ribosome-templated azide$(B!](Balkyne cycloadditions: synthesis of potent macrolide antibiotics by in situ click chemistry," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138: 3136-3144, 2016, PMC4785600, [DOI]
  309. Cavalier, M.C., Melville, Z., Aligholizadeh, E., Raman, E.P., Yu, W., Fang, L., Alasady, M., Pierce, A.D., Wilder, P.T., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Weber, D.J. "Novel protein-inhibitor interactions in site 3 of Ca2+-bound S100B as discovered by X-ray crystallography," Acta Crystallographica Section D, D72, 753-760, 2016, PMC4908867, [DOI]
  310. Astudillo, L, da Silva, T.G., Wang, Z., Han, X., Jin, K., VanWye, J., Zhu, X., Weaver, K.L,, Oashi, T., Lopes, P.E.M., Orton, D., Neitzel, L.R., Lee, E., Landgraf, R., Robbins, D.J., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Capobianco, A.J. "Inhibitor of Mastermind Recruitment (IMR-1): A Small Molecule Inhibitor of the Notch Transcriptional Activation Complex," Cancer Research, 76:3593-3603, 2016, PMC4911243, [DOI]
  311. Feng, Y., Huang, J., Kim, S., Shim, J.-H., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Ge, N.-H. "Structure of Penta-Alanine Investigated by Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulation," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120:5325-5339, 2016, PMC5243129, [DOI]
  312. Cardenas, M.G., Yu, W.,* Beguelin, W., Teater, M., Geng, H., Goldstein, R., Oswald, E., Hatzi, K., Yang, S.-N., Cohen, J., Shaknovich, R., Vannomeslaeghe, K., Cheng, H., Liang, D., Cho, H.J., Abbott, J., Cerchietti, L, Cierpicki, T., Xue, F., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Melnick, A.M., "Therapeutic targeting of GCB- and ABC-DLBCLs by rationally designed BCL6 inhibitors," Journal of Clinical Investigation, 126:3351-336, 2016, PMC5004937, [DOI]
  313. Xu, Y., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Nilsson, L. "Structural effects of modified ribonucleotides and magnesium in transfer RNAs," Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 24: 4826-4834, 2016, PMC5052103, [DOI]
  314. Soteras Gutiérrez, I., Lin, F.-Y., Vanommeslaeghe, K., Lemkul, J.A., Armacost, K.A., Brooks, Cl., III, and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Parametrization of Halogen Bonds in the CHARMM General Force Field: Improved treatment of ligand-protein interactions," Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 24: 4812-4825, 2016, PMC5053860, [DOI]
  315. Yang, M., Angles ďOrtoli, T., Säwén, E., Jana, M., Widmalm, G., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr.,"Delineating the conformational flexibility of trisaccharides from NMR spectroscopy experiments and computer simulations," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18: 18776-18794, 2016, PMC494544, [DOI]
  316. Heinzl, G., Huang, W,. Yu, W, Giardina, B., Zhou, Y, MacKerell, A.D., Jr. Wilks, A., and Xue, F., "Benzimidoguanidines as Allosteric Inhibitors of the Iron-Regulated Heme Oxygenase (HemO) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2016, 59:6929-6942, 2016, PMC5080841, [DOI]
  317. Sarkar, A., Yu, W., Desai, U.R., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Mosier, P. "Estimating glycosaminoglycan-protein interaction affinity: Water dominates the specific antithrombin$(G!9(Bheparin Interaction," Glycobiology, 26: 1041-1047, 2016, PMC5072149, [DOI]
  318. Chauhan, J., Cardinale, S., Fang, L., Huang, J., Kwasny, S.M., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Opperman, T.J., Fletcher, S., and Erik P.H. de Leeuw, E.P.H. "Towards Development of Small Molecule Lipid II inhibitors as Novel Antibiotics," PLoS ONE, 11: e0164515, 2016, PMC5077133 [DOI]
  319. Khan, H.M., Grauffel, C., Broer, R., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Havenith, R.W.A., and Reuter, N., "Improving the force field description of tyrosine-choline cation-Pi interactions: QM investigation of phenol-N(Me)4+ interactions," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 12: 5585-5595, 2016, PMC5148683, [DOI]
  320. Huang, J., Rauscher, S., Nawrocki, G., Ran, T., Feig, M, de Groot, B.L., Grubmüller, H., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "CHARMM36m: An Improved Force Field for Folded and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins," Nature Methods, 14:71-73, 2016, PMC5199616,[DOI]
  321. Lemkul, J.A., Lakkaraju, S.K., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Characterization of Mg2+ Distributions around RNA in Solution," ACS Omega, 1:680-688, 2016, PMC5088455, [DOI]
  322. Jo, S., Cheng, X., Lee, J., Kim, S., Park, S.-J., Patel, D.S., Beaven, A.H., Lee, K.I., Rui, H., Roux, B., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Klauda, J.B., Qi, Y., and Im, W. "CHARMM-GUI 10 Years for Biomolecular Modeling and Simulation," Journal of Computational Chemistry, In Press, 2016, PMC5403596, [DOI]
  323. Lemkul, J.A. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Balancing the Interactions of Mg2+ in Aqueous Solution and with Nucleic Acid Moieties For a Polarizable Force Field Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator Model," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120: 11436-11448, 2016, PMC5148688 [DOI]
  324. Huang, J., Lakkaraju, S.K., Coop, A. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Conformational Heterogeneity of Intracellular Loop 3 of the μ-Opioid G-Protein Coupled Receptor," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120: 11897-11904, 2016, PMC5148698 [DOI]

    325. 2017
  325. Raman, E.P., Lakkaraju, S.K., Denny, R.A., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Estimation of relative free energies of binding using pre-computed ensembles based on the single-step free energy perturbation and the site-identification by ligand competitive saturation approaches," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 38: 1238-1251, 2017, PMC5403604 [DOI]
  326. Cardenas, M.G., Oswald, E., Yu, W. Xue, F., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Melnick, "The expanding role of the BCL6 oncoprotein as a cancer therapeutic target," Clinical Cancer Research, 23:885-893, 2017, PMC5315622, [DOI]
  327. Yang, M., Simon, R., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Conformational Preference of Serogroup B Salmonella O Polysaccharide in Presence and Absence of the Monoclonal Antibody Se155-4: Implications for Vaccine Design," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121: 3412-3423, 2017, PMC5407322, [DOI]
  328. Small, M.C., Aytenfisu, A.H., Lin, F.-Y. He, X., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Drude Polarizable Force Field for Aliphatic Ketones and Aldehydes, and their Associated Acyclic Carbohydrates," Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 31: 349-363, 2017, PMC5392138, [DOI]
  329. Huang, J., Mei, Y., Konig, G., Simmonett, A.C., Pickard, F.C., Wu, Q., Wang, L.-P., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Brooks, B.R., and Shao, Y., "An Estimation of Hybrid Quantum Mechanical Molecular Mechanical (QM/MM) Polarization Energies for Small Molecules Using Polarizable Force-Field Approaches," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 13:679-695, 2017, PMC5315702, [DOI]
  330. Shah, N.G., Tulapurkar, M.E., Ramarathnam, A., Brophy, Martinez, R., Hom, K., Hodges, T., Samadani, R., Singh, I.S., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Shapiro, P., and Hasday, J.D., "Novel Non-catalytic Substrate-selective p38α-specific MAPK Inhibitors with Endothelial-Stabilizing and Anti-inflammatory Activity," The Journal of Immunology, 198: 3296-3306, 2017, PMC5649369, [DOI]
  331. Liang, D., Yu, W., Nguyen, N., Deschamps, J., Imler, G., Li, Yue; MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Jiang, C., and Xue, F. "Iodobenzene-Catalyzed Synthesis of Phenanthridinones via Oxidative C-H Amidation," The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 82 82: 3589-3596, 2017, [DOI]
  332. Baliban, S.M., Yang, M., Ramachandran, G., Curtis, B., Shridhar, S., Laufer, R.S., Wang, J.Y., Van Druff, J., Higginson, E.E., Hegerle, N., Varney, K.M., Galen, J.E., Tennant, S.M, Lees, A., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Levine, M.M., and Simon, R., "A Salmonella Typhimurium glycoconjugate vaccine that targets invasive infections in sub-Saharan Africa," PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11: e0005493, 2017, PMC5397072, [DOI]
  333. Lemkul, J.A. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Polarizable Force Field for DNA Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator: I. Refinement using Quantum Mechanical Base Stacking and Conformational Energetics," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 13: 2053-2071, 2017, PMC5484419, [DOI]
  334. Lemkul, J.A. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Polarizable Force Field for DNA Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator: II. Microsecond Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Duplex DNA," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 13: 2072-2085 2017, PMC5485260, [DOI]
  335. Huang, J., Simmonett, A.C., Pickard, F.C., IV, MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Brooks, B.R., "Mapping the Drude Polarizable Force Field onto a Multipole and Induced Dipole Model," Journal of Chemical Physics, 147, 161702, 2017, PMC5459616, [DOI]
  336. Yang, M., Huang, J., Simon, R., Wang, L.-X., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Conformational Heterogeneity of the HIV Envelope Glycan Shield," Scientific Reports, 7: 4435, 2017, PMC5493700, [DOI]
  337. Lin, F.-Y., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Do Halogen-Hydrogen Bond Donor Interactions Dominate the Favorable Contribution of Halogens to Ligand-Protein Binding?" The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121: 6813-6821, 2017, PMC5523114, [DOI]
  338. Li, H., Chowdhary, J., Huang, L., He, X., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Roux, B. "Drude Polarizable Force Field for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Saturated and Unsaturated Zwitterionic Lipids," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 13: 4535-4552, 2017, PMC5595662, [DOI]
  339. Klontz, E., Adam Tomich, A., Gunther, S., Lemkul, J.A., Deredge, D., Silverstein, Z., Shaw, J., McElheny, C., Doi, Y., Wintrode, P., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Sluis-Cremer, N., and Sundberg, E., "Structure and dynamics of FosA-mediated fosfomycin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli," Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 61: e01572-17, 2017, PMC5655077, [DOI]
  340. Burns. L.A., Faver, J.C., Zheng, Z., Marshall, M.S., Smith, D.G.A., Vanommeslaeghe, K., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Merz, K.M., Jr., and Sherrill, C.D., "The BioFragment Database (BFDb): An Open-Data Platform for Computational Chemistry Analysis of Noncovalent Interactions," Journal of Chemical Physics, 147:161727, 2017, PMC5656042, [DOI]
  341. Huang, J., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Force Field Development and Simulations of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins," Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 48:40-48, 2017, PMC5826789, [DOI]

    342. 2018
  342. Re, S., Watabe, S., Nishima, W., Muneyuki, E., Yamaguchi, Y., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Sugita, Y., "Determinants of Collision Cross Sections of N-Glycans in Ion Mobility Mass Spectroscopy," Science Reports, 8, 1164, 2018, PMC5786100, [DOI]
  343. Yang, M., Aytenfisu, A.H., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Proper Balance of Solvent-Solute and Solute-Solute Interactions in the Treatment of the Diffusion of Glucose using the Drude Polarizable Force Field," Carbohydrate Research, 457:41-50, 2018, PMC5809005, [DOI]
  344. Lin, F.-Y. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Polarizable Empirical Force Field for Halogen-containing Compounds Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 14: 1083-1098, 2018, PMC5811359, [DOI]
  345. Huang, J., Lemkul, J.A., Eastman, P.K., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Explicitly Solvated Drude Polarizable Systems on GPUs: Implementation, Validation, and Benchmark," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 39:1682-1689, 2018, PMC6031474,[DOI]
  346. Lin, F.-Y., Lopes, P.E.M., Harder, E, Roux, B.* and MacKerell, A.D., Jr.*, "Polarizable Force Field for Molecular Ions Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 58: 993-1004, 2018, PMC5975207, [DOI]
  347. Aleksandrov, A., Lin, F.-Y., Roux, B., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Poisson-Boltzmann solvation model for the Polarizable Drude force field," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 39:1707-1719, 2018, PMC6108925, [DOI]
  348. Boulanger, E., Huang, L., Rupakheti, C., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Roux, B. "Optimized Lennard-Jones Parameters for Drug-Like Small Molecules," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 14: 3121-3131, 2018, PMC5997559, [DOI]
  349. Aytenfisu, A.H., Yang, M., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "CHARMM Drude Polarizable Force Field for Glycosidic Linkages Involving Pyranoses and Furanoses," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 14: 3132-3143, 2018, PMC5997548, [DOI]
  350. Villa, F., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Roux, B., and Simonson, T., "Classical Drude Polarizable Force Field Model for Methyl Phosphate and its Interactions with Mg2+" Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 122: 6147-6155, 2018, PMC6062457, [DOI]
  351. Cheng, H., Linhares, B., Yu, W., Cardenas, M., Ai, Y., Jiang, W., Melnick, A., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Cierpicki, T., Xue, F., "Identification of Thiourea-Based Inhibitors of the BCL6 BTB Domain via NMR-Based Fragment Screening and Computer-Aided Drug Design," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 61: 7573$(G!9(B7588, 2018, PMC6334293, [DOI]
  352. Sun, D., Lakkaraju, K., Jo, S., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Determination of Ionic Hydration Free Energies with Grand Canonical Monte Carlo/Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Explicit Water," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 14: 5290-5302, 2018, PMC6195813, [DOI]
  353. Lemkul, J.A. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Polarizable Force Field for RNA Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 39: 2624-2646, 2018, PMC6284239, [DOI]
  354. König, G., Pickard IV, F.C., Huang, J., Thiel, W., MacKerell Jr., A.D., Brooks, B.R., and York, D.M. "A Comparison of QM/MM Simulations with and without the Drude Oscillator Model Based on Hydration Free Energies of Simple Solutes," Molecules, 23: 2695, 2018, PMC6222909, [DOI]

    355. 2019
  355. Swaroop, A., Oyer, J., Will, C., Huang, X., Yu, W., Troche, C., Bulic, M., Durham, B., Wen, Q., Crispino, J., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Bennett, R., Kelleher, N., and Licht, J., "An Activating Mutation of the NSD2 Histone Methyltransferase Drives Oncogenic Reprogramming in Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia," Oncogene, 38: 671-686, 2019, PMC6358490, [DOI]
  356. Lin, F.-Y. and MacKerell Jr., A.D., "Improved Modeling of Halogenated Ligand-Protein Interactions using the Drude Polarizable and CHARMM Additive Empirical Force Fields," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 59: 215-218, 2019, PMC6349471, [DOI]
  357. Khan, H.M., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Reuter, N. "Cation-Pi interactions between methylated ammonium groups and tryptophan in the CHARMM36 additive force field," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 15: 7-12, 2019, PMC6467778, [DOI]
  358. Brocke, S.A., Degen, A., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Dutagaci, B., and Michael Feig, M., "Prediction of Membrane Permeation of Drug Molecules by Combining an Implicit Membrane Model with Machine Learning," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 59: 1147-1162, 2019, PMC6433486 [DOI]
  359. Yu, W., Sunhwan Jo, S., Lakkaraju, S.K., Weber, D.J., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Exploring protein-protein interactions using the Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) methodology," Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics, 87: 289-301, 2019, PMC6408985 [DOI]
  360. Aytenfisu, A.H., Simon, R., and MacKerell, Jr., A.D. "Impact of branching on the conformational heterogeneity of the lipopolysaccharide from Klebsiella pneumoniae: Implications for vaccine design." Carbohydrate Research, 475: 39-47, 2019, PMC652918, [DOI]
  361. Heid, E., Fleck, M., Chatterjee, P., Schröder, C. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Towards Prediction of Electrostatic Parameters for Force Fields that Explicitly Treat Electronic Polarization," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 15: 2460-2469, 2019, PMC6473792, [DOI]
  362. Ustach, V.D., Lakkaraju, S.K., Jo, S., Yu, W., Jiang, W., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Optimization and Evaluation of the Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) as a Tool for Target-Based Ligand Optimization," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 59: 3018-3035, 2019, PMC6597307, [DOI]
  363. Bedrov, D., Piquemal, J.-P., Borodin, O, MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Roux, B., and Schröder, C., "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ionic Liquids and Electrolytes Using Polarizable Force Fields," Chemical Reviews, 119: 7940-7995, 2019, PMC6620131, [DOI]
  364. Donohue, E., Khorsand S., Mercado, G., Varney, K.M., Wilder P.T., Yu, W., MacKerell Jr., A.D., Alexander, P., Van Q.N., Moree, B., Stephen, A.G., Weber, D.J., Salafsky, J., and McCormick, F., "Second harmonic generation detection of Ras conformational changes and discovery of a novel small-molecule binder," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 116: 17290-17297, 2019, PMC6717309, [DOI]
  365. Heid, E., Schmode, S., Chatterjee, P., MacKerell Jr., A.D. and Schröder, C., "Computational solvation dynamics: Influence of polarizable chromophore models," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21: 17703-17710, 2019, PMC6697210,[DOI]
  366. Pandey, P., Aytenfisu, A., MacKerell Jr., A.D., and Mallajosyula, S., "Drude Polarizable Force Field Parametrization of Carboxylate and N-acetyl Amine Carbohydrate Derivatives," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 15: 5982-5000, 2019, PMC6852669, [DOI]

    367. 2020
  367. Lin, F.-Y., and MacKerell Jr., A.D., "Improved Modeling of Cation-Pi and Anion-Ring Interactions Using the Drude Polarizable Empirical Force Field for Proteins," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 41: 439-448, 2020, PMC7322827, [DOI]
  368. MacKerell Jr., A.D., "Ions everywhere? Mg2+ in the mu-opioid GPCR and atomic details of their impact on function," Biophysical Journal, New and Notable, 118: 783-784 2020, PMC7036735, [DOI]
  369. Xu, X., Ruiz, R., Adipietro, K., Cleveland, T., Grishaev, A., Neu, H., Michel, S., Yu, W., Beckett, B., Rustandi, R.R., MacKerell Jr., A.D., DesGeorges, A., Pozharski, E., and Weber, D.J. "Structure of the cell-binding component of the C. difficile binary toxin reveals a novel macromolecular assembly," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 117:1049-1058, 2020, PMC6969506, [DOI]
  370. Kumar, A., Yoluk, O. and MacKerell Jr., A.D. "FFParam: Standalone Package for CHARMM Additive and Drude Polarizable Force Field Parametrization of Small Molecules," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 41: 958-970, 2020, PMC7323454, [DOI]
  371. MacKerell Jr., A.D.*, Jo., S., Lakkaraju, S.K., Lind, C., and Yu, W. "Identification and Characterization of Fragment Binding Sites for Allosteric Ligand Design using the Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation Hotspots Approach (SILCS-Hotspots)," Biochimia et Biophysica Acta, 1864: 129519, 2020, PMC7029399, [DOI]
  372. Chauhan J., Yu W., Cardinale S., Opperman T., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Fletcher, S., and de Leeuw, E.P.H. "Optimization of a Benzothiazole Indolene Scaffold Targeting Bacterial Cell Wall Assembly" Drug Design, Development and Therapy, 14: 567-574, 2020, PMC7024799, [DOI]
  373. Mattia Turchi, M., Kognole, A.A, Kumar, A., Cai, Q., Lian, G., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Predicting Partition Coefficients of Neutral and Charged Solutes in the Mixed SLES-Fatty Acids Micellar System," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 124: 1653-1664, 2020, PMC7060100, [DOI]
  374. Kognole, A.A. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Mg2+ Impacts the Twister Ribozyme through Push-Pull Stabilization of Non-Sequential Phosphate Pairs," Biophysical Journal, 6: 1424-1437, 2020, PMC7091459 [DOI]
  375. Goel, H., Yu, W., Ustach, V.D., Aytenfisu, A.H., Sun, D., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Impact of Electronic Polarizability on Protein-Functional Group Interactions," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22: 6848-6860, 2020, PMC7194236 [DOI]
  376. Lin, F.-Y. Huang, J., Pandey, P., Rupakheti, C., Li, J., Roux, B., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Further Optimization and Validation of the Classical Drude Polarizable Protein Force Field," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 16: 3221-3239, 2020, PMC7306265 [DOI]
  377. Kognole, A.A., Aytenfisu, A.H., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Balanced Polarizable Drude Force Field Parameters for Molecular Anions: Phosphates, Sulfates, Sulfamates and Oxides," Journal of Molecular Modeling, 26:152, 2020, PMC7326346 [DOI]
  378. Aleksandrov, A., Roux, B., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "pKa Calculations with the Polarizable Drude Force Field and Poisson-Boltzmann Solvation Model," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 16: 4655-4668, 2020, PMC7428141 [DOI]
  379. Conlon, I.L., Drennen, B., Lanning, M.E., Hughes, S., Rothhaas, R., Wilder, P,T., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Fletcher, S. "Rationally Designed Polypharmacology: ?-Helix Mimetics as Dual Inhibitors of the Oncoproteins Mcl-1?and HDM2," ChemMedChem, 5:1691-1698, 2020, [DOI]
  380. Kognole, A.A. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Contributions and competition of Mg2+ and K+ in folding and stabilization of the Twister Ribozyme," RNA, 26:1704-1715, 2020, bioRxiv:10.1101/2020.06.15.152744, PMC7566569 [DOI]
  381. Rupakheti, C., Lamoureux, G., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Roux, B. "Statistical Mechanics of Polarizable Force Fields Based on Classical Drude Oscillators With Dynamical Propagation by the Dual-Thermostat Extended Lagrangian," Journal of Chemical Physics, 153: 114108, 2020, PMC7656322 [DOI]
  382. Jo, S., Xu, A., Curtis, J., Somani, S., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Computational Characterization of Antibody-Excipient Interactions for Rational Excipient Selection using the Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS)-Biologics Approach," Molecular Pharmaceutics, 17: 4323-4333, 2020, PMC7606568 [DOI]
  383. Weston, S., Baracco, L., Keller, C., Matthews, K., McGrath, M.E., Logue, J., Liang, J., Dyall, J., Holbrook, M.R., Hensley, L.E., Jahrling, P.B., Yu, W., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Frieman, M.B., "The SKI complex is a broad-spectrum, host-directed, antiviral drug target for coronaviruses, influenza and filoviruses," Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, USA, 117:30687-30698, 2020, PMC7720140, [DOI]
  384. Mousaei, M., Kudaibergenova, M., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Noskov, S. "Assessing hERG1 Blockade from Bayesian Machine Learning Optimized Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) Simulations," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 60: 6489-6501, 2020, PMC7839320, [DOI]

    385. 2021
  385. Takimoto. T., Sasaki, H., Tsue, H., Takahashi, H., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Nakano, K., Okazaki, E., Nakamura, A., Betsuyaku, T., Tachibana, R., Hioki, K., Yoluk, O., and Jo, S. "Simple Synthesis of a Heterocyclophane Exhibiting Anti-c-Met Activity by Acting as a Hatch Blocking Access to the Active Site," Chemistry - A European Journal, 27: 1648-1654, 2021, PMC7887132, [DOI]
  386. Somani, S., Jo, S., Thirumangalathu, R., Rodrigues, D., Tanenbaum, L.M., Amin, K., 3, Alexander D. MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Thakkar, S.V., "Toward Biotherapeutics Formulation Composition Engineering using Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS)," Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 110: 1103-1110, 2020, PMC7606568, [DOI]
  387. Diethelm-Varela, B., Kumar, A., Lynch, C., Imler, G., Deschamps, J., Xia, M., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Xue, F. "Stereoisomerization of 6-(4-Chlorophenyl)imidazo[2,1-b][1,3]thiazole-5-carbaldehyde-O-(3,4-dichlorobenzyl)oxime (CITCO)," Tetrahedron, 79: 131886, 2021, [DOI]
  388. Solano-Gonzalez, E., Coburn, K., Yu, W., Wilson, G., Nurmemmedov, E., Kesari, S., Chang, E., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Weber, D., and Carrier, F., "Small molecules inhibitors of the heterogeneous Ribonuclear protein A18 (hnRNP A18); a regulator of protein translation and an immune checkpoint," Nucleic Acids Research, 49:1235-1246 2021, PMC7897483, [DOI]
  389. Parvaiz, N., Ahmad, F., Yu, W., MacKerell, A.D., Jr.,* and Azam, S.S.*, "Discovery of beta-lactamase CMY-10 inhibitors for combination therapy against multi-drug resistant Enterobacteriaceae," PLoS One, 16: e0244967, 2021, PMC7810305, [DOI]
  390. Young, B., Yu, W., Vera-Rodriguez, D., Varney, K., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Weber, D.J. "Specificity of small molecules binding to S100B versus S100A1 as identified using fragment-based screening by NMR and Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS)," Molecules, 26:381, 2021, PMC7828390, [DOI]
  391. Ngo, V. Li, H., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Allen, T.W., Roux, B., and Noskov, S. "Polarization Effects in Water-Mediated Selective Cation Transport Across a Narrow Transmembrane Channel," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 17: 1726-1741, 2021, [DOI]
  392. Yu, Y., Krämer, A., Venable, R., Simmonett, A., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Klauda, J., Pastor, R., and Brooks, B.R., "Semi-Automated Optimization of the CHARMM36 Lipid Force Field to Include Explicit Treatment of Long-Range Dispersion," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 17:1562-1580, 2021, PMC8059446, [DOI]
  393. Li, S., Zhao, J., Huang, R., Travers, J., Klumpp-Thomas, C., Yu, W., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., S., Sakamuru, Ooka, M., Xue, F., Sipes, N.S., Hsieh, J.-H., Ryan, K., Simeonov, A., Michael F. Santillo, M.,Menghang Xia, "Profiling the Tox21 Program Chemical Collection for Acetylcholinesterase Inhibition," Environmental Health Perspectives, 129: 047008, 2021, PMC8041433 [DOI]
  394. Ai, Y., Hwang, L., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Melnick, A., and Xue, F., "Progress towards B-Cell Lymphoma 6 BTB Domain Inhibitors for the Treatment of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma and Beyond," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 64: 4333-4358, 2021, [DOI]
  395. Gomes, A.A., da Silva, G.F., Lakkaraju, S.K., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Magalhaes, M.L.B., "Insights into Glucose-6-phosphate Allosteric Activation of beta-Glucosidase A," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 61: 1931-1941, 2021, PMC8085047, [DOI]
  396. Lind, C., Pandey, P., Pastor, R., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Functional Group Distributions, Partition Coefficients and Resistance Factors in Lipid Bilayers using Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS)," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 17: 3188-3202, 2021, PMC8283798, [DOI]
  397. Li, C., Chong, G., Zong, G., Knorr, D., Bournazos, S., Aytenfisu, A.H., Henry, G., Ravetch, J., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Wang, L.-X., "Site-Selective Chemoenzymatic Modification on the Core Fucose of an Antibody Enhances Its Fc-gamma Receptor Affinity and ADCC Activity," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143: 7828-7838, 2021, PMC8283798, [DOI]
  398. Croitoru, A., Park, S.-J., Kumar, A., Lee, J., Im, Wonpil; MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Aleksandrov, A. "Additive CHARMM36 Force Field for Nonstandard Amino Acids," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 17: 3554-3570, 2021, PMC8207570, [DOI]
  399. Goel, H., Hazel, A., Ustach, V.D., Jo, S., Yu, W., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Rapid and Accurate Estimation of Protein-Ligand Relative Binding Affinities using Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation," Chemical Science, 12: 8844-8858, 2021, PMC8246086, [DOI]
  400. Asaminew, A.H., Deredge, D., Klontz, E.H., Du, J., Sundberg, E.J. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Insights into substrate recognition and specificity for IgG by Endoglycosidase S2," PLoS Computational Biology, 17: e1009103, 2021, PMC8354483, [DOI]
  401. Ernst, O., Khan, M.M., Oyler, B.L., Yoon, S.H., Sun, J., Lin, F.-Y., Manes, N.P., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Fraser, I.D.C., Ernst, R.K., Goodlett, D.R., and Nita-Lazar, A., "Species-specific endotoxin stimulus determines TLR4- and Caspase11- mediated pathway activation characteristics," mSystems, 6: e00306-21, 2021, PMC8407122, [DOI]
  402. Rupakheti, C., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Roux, B. "Global Optimization of the Lennard-Jones Parameters for the Drude Polarizable Force Field," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 17:7085-7095, 2021, PMC8578466, [DOI]
  403. Pane, A.J., Yu, W, Aytenfisu, A.A., Tunyi, J., Venable, R.M., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Pastor, R.W., "Development of CHARMM Additive Potential Energy Parameters for alpha-Methyl Amino Acids," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125:11687-11696, 2021, PMC8627904, [DOI]

    404. 2022
  404. Green, A., Pickard, A., Li, R., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Bierbach, U., and Cho, S., "Computational and Experimental Characterization of rDNA and rRNA G-Quadruplexes," Journal of Physical Chemistry B., 126: 609$(G!9(B619, 2022, PMC8995076, [DOI]
  405. Goel, H., Hazel, A., Yu, W., Jo, S., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Application of Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation in Computer-Aided Drug Design," New Journal of Chemistry, 46: 919-932, 2022, PMC8863107, [DOI]
  406. Sengul, M.Y. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Accurate modeling of RNA hairpins through the explicit treatment of electronic polarizability with the classical Drude oscillator force field," Journal of Computational Biophysics and Chemistry, 21: 1-11, 2022, PMC9231828, [DOI]
  407. Kognole, A.A., Lee, J., Park, S.-J., Jo, S., Chatterjee, P., Lemkul, J.A., Huang, J., MacKerell, A.D., Jr.,* and Im, W.,* "CHARMM-GUI Drude Prepper for Molecular Dynamics Simulation Using the Classical Drude Polarizable Force Field" Journal of Computational Chemistry, 43:359-375, 2022, PMC8741736, [DOI]
  408. Kumar, A., Pandey, P., Chatterjee, P., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Deep Neural Network Model to Predict the Electrostatic Parameters in the Polarizable Classical Drude Oscillator Force Field," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 18:1711-1725, 2022, PMC8904317, [DOI]
  409. Chatterjee, P., Sengul, M.Y., Kumar, A., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Harnessing Deep Learning for Optimization of Lennard-Jones Parameters for the Polarizable Classical Drude Oscillator Force Field, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 18: 2388-2407, 2022, PMC9097857, [DOI]
  410. Wang, F., Yu, W., Popescu, C., MacKerell, A.D., and Hoag, S., "Cholecalciferol Complexation with Hydroxypropyl-beta-Cyclodextrin (HPBCD) and Its Molecular Dynamics Simulation," Pharmaceutical Development and Technology (IPHD), 27: 389-398, 2022, PMC9233054 [DOI]
  411. Drennen, B., Goodis, C., Bowen, N., Yu, W., Vickers, G., Wilder, P., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Fletcher, S., "Scaffold hopping from indoles to indazoles yields dual MCL-1/BCL-2 inhibitors from MCL-1 selective leads," RSC Medicinal Chemistry, In Press, 2022, [DOI]
  412. Goel, H., Yu, W., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "hERG Blockade Prediction by Combining Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation and Physicochemical Properties," MDPI Chemistry, 4: 630-645, 2022, [DOI]
  413. Kognole, A.A., Hazel, A., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "SILCS-RNA: Toward a Structure-Based Drug Design Approach for Targeting RNAs with Small Molecules," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 18: 5672-5691, 2022, PMC9474704, [DOI]
  414. Orr, A.A., Sharif, S., Wang, J., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Preserving the Integrity of Empirical Force Fields," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 62: 3825-3831, 2022, PMC9399073, [DOI]
  415. Chong, G. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Spatial Requirements for ITAM Signaling in an Intracellular Natural Killer Cell Model Membrane" Biochimia et Biophysica Acta $(G!9(B General Subjects, 1866: 130221, 2022, PMC9420803, [DOI]
  416. Kognole, A.A., Asaminew, A.H., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Extension of the CHARMM Classical Drude Polarizable Force Field to N- and O-Linked Glycopeptides and Glycoproteins," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 126: 6642-6653, 2022, PMC9463114, [DOI]
  417. Sushrut, S.D.*, Lind, C.*, De Pascali, F., Penn, R.B., MacKerell, A.D., Jr.,* and Deshpande, D.A.,* "In silico identification of a beta2-adrenoceptor allosteric site that selectively augments canonical Beta2AR-Gs signaling and function," Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, USA, 119: e2214024119, 2022, PMC9894167, [DOI]

    418. 2023
  418. Ruda, A., Aytenfisu, A.H., d'Ortoli, T.A., MacKerell, A.D., Jr.* and Widmalm, G.,* "Glycosidic alpha-linked mannopyranose disaccharides: An NMR spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulation study employing additive and Drude polarizable force fields," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25: 3042-3060, 2023, PMC9890503, [DOI]
  419. Karade, S., Franco, E., Rojas, A., Hanrahan, K., Kolesnikov, A., Yu, W., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Hill, D., Weber, D., Brown, S., Treston, A., and Mariuzza, R., "Structure-Based Design of Potent Iminosugar Inhibitors of Endoplasmic Reticulum alpha-Glucosidase I with Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Activity," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 66: 2744-2760, 2023, PMC10278443, [DOI]
  420. Yu, Y., Venable, R.M., Thirman, J., Chatterjee, P., Kumar, A., Pastor, R.W.,* Roux, R.,* MacKerell, A.D., Jr.,* and Klauda, J.*, "Drude Polarizable Lipid Force Field with Explicit Treatment of Long-Range Dispersion: Parametrization and Validation for Saturated and Mono-unsaturated Zwitterionic Lipids," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 19: 2590-2605, 2023, PMC10404126, [DOI]
  421. Orr, A., Tao, A., Guvench, O., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS)-Biologics Approach for Structure-Based Protein Charge Prediction," Molecular Pharmaceutics, 20: 2600-2611, 2023, PMC10159941, [DOI]
  422. Zhao, M., Kognole, A.A., Jo, S., Tao, A., Hazel, A., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "GPU-Specific Algorithms for Improved Solute Sampling in Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulations," Journal of Computational Chemistry, 44: 1719-1732, 2023, PMC10330275, [DOI]
  423. Yu, W., Weber, D.J., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "An Integrated Covalent Drug Design Workflow using Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation," ChemRxiv, 2023, 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-sc37c, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 19: 3007-3021, 2023, PMC10205696, [DOI]
  424. Sengul, M.Y. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Influence of Mg2+ Distribution on the Stability of Folded States of the Twister Ribozyme Revealed using Grand Canonical Monte Carlo and Generative Deep Learning Enhanced Sampling," ChemRxiv, 2023 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-wkfrk, ACS Omega, 8: 19532-19546, 2023, PMC10249389, [DOI]
  425. Bowen, H., Kenedy, M., Johnson, D., MacKerell Jr., A.D., and Akins, D. "Identification of a novel transport system in Borrelia burgdorferi that links the inner and outer membranes," Pathogens and Disease, 81: ftad014, 2023, PMC10353723, [DOI]
  426. Devereaux, A.L., Olson, K.M., Chatterjee, P., Savanah L. Saldaña-Shumaker (B-Shumaker, S.L., Schaefer, A., Plotkin, A., Kandasamy, R., MacKerell Jr., A.D. Traynor, J.R., and Cunningham, C.W., "Nitro-Benzylideneoxymorphone, a Bifunctional Mu and Delta Opioid Receptor Ligand with High Mu Opioid Receptor Efficacy," Frontiers in Pharmacology, 14, 2023, PMC10352325, [DOI]
  427. Pandey, P. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Combining SILCS and Artificial Intelligence for High-Throughput Prediction of Drug Molecule Passive Permeability," ChemRxiv, 2023, 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-rjv6c, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 63, 18: 5903-5915, 2023, PMC10352325, [DOI]
  428. Ahmad, Faisal, A., Parvaiz, N., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., and Syed, S. "Non-Beta Lactam Ring Inhibitors of the Metallo Beta-Lactamase blaCTX-M15 Protein in Drug Resistant Salmonella typhi are of Potential Utility in Antibacterial Combination Therapy," Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 63: 6681-6695, 2023, PMC10698858, [DOI]
  429. Lazaro-Gorines, R., Perez, P., Heras-Murillo, I., Adan-Barrientos, I., Albericio, G., Astorgano, D., Flores, S., Luczkowiak, Labiod, N., Harwood, S.L., Segura-Tudela, A., Rubio-Peez, L, Nugraha, Y., Shang, X., Li, Y., Alfonso, C., Adipietro, K.A., Abeyawardhane, D.L, Navarro,R., Compte, M., Yu, W., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Sanz, L., Weber, D.J., Blanco, F.J., Esteban, M., Pozharski, E., Godoy-Ruiz, R., Munoz, I.G., Delgado, R., Sancho, D., Garca-Arriaza, J., and Avarez-Vallina, L., "Dendritic Cell-mediated Cross-Priming by a Bispecific Neutralizing Antibody Boosts Cytotoxic T Cell Responses and Protects Mice against SARS-CoV-2," Advanced Science, Oct 20: e202304818, 2023, PMC10700188, [DOI]
  430. Brooks, C.L., III, MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Post, C.B., and Nilsson, L., "Biomolecular Dynamics in the 21st Century," Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) General Subjects, 1868:130534, 2024, [DOI]


Book Chapters
  1. Pietruszko, R. Ferencz-Biro, K. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Chemical modification of human aldehyde dehydrogenase," In Enzymology of Carbonyl Metabolism 2, H. Weiner and T.G. Flynn Eds. Alan R. Liss Inc. New York, pp. 29-41, 1985.
  2. Pietruszko, R. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Ferencz-Biro, K. "Adducts of propionaldehyde and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetaldehyde with human liver aldehyde dehydrogenase," In Aldehyde Adducts in Alcoholism M.A. Collins Ed. Alan R. Liss Inc. New York, pp. 67-74, 1985.
  3. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Rigler, R. Hahn, U. and Saenger, W. "Ribonuclease T1: Interaction with 2'GMP and 3'GMP as studied by time resolved fluorescence spectroscopy," In Structure, Dynamics and Function of Biomolecules A. Ehrenberg, R. Rigler, A. Graslund and L. Nilsson Eds. Springer Series in Biophysics, Vol. 1. Springer-Verlag, pp. 260-264, 1987.
  4. Pietruszko, R. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Stoichiometry of chemical modification of human aldehyde dehydrogenase: Evidence for 'Quarter of the sites' reactivity," In Enzymology and Molecular Biology of Carbonyl Metabolism: Aldehyde Dehydrogenase, Aldo-Keto Reductase and Alcohol Dehydrogenase H. Weiner Ed. Progress in Clinical and Biological Research, Vol.232, Alan R. Liss Inc. New York, pp. 37-52. 1987.
  5. Rigler, R. MacKerell, Jr. A. D. Vogel, H. and Nilsson, L. "Picosecond spectroscopy of molecular dynamics of proteins and enzymes," In Laser Spectroscopy VIII (EICOLS 87) W. Persson and S. Svanberg Eds. pp. 242-244, 1988.
  6. Schlenkrich, M. Brickmann, J. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Karplus, M. "An Empirical Potential Energy Function for Phospholipids: Criteria for Parameter Optimization and Applications," In Biological Membranes: A Molecular Perspective from Computation and Experiment K.M. Merz, Jr. and B. Roux, Eds. Birkhäuser, Boston, 1996.
  7. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Observations on the A versus B equilibrium in molecular dynamics simulations of duplex DNA and RNA," ACS Symposium Series, "Molecular Modeling and Structural Determination of Nucleic Acids," N.B. Leontis, Ed. pp. 304-311, 1997.
  8. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Protein Force Fields," In Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry P.v.R. Schleyer, N.L. Allinger, T. Clark, J. Gasteiger, P.A. Kollman, H.F. Schaefer III, P.R. Schreiner, Eds. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1998.
  9. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Brooks, B. Brooks, III, C.B. Nilsson, L. Roux, B. Won, Y. and Karplus, M. "CHARMM: The Energy Function and Its Parametrization with an Overview of the Program," In Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry P.v.R. Schleyer, N.L. Allinger, T. Clark, J. Gasteiger, P.A. Kollman, H.F. Schaefer III, P.R. Schreiner, Eds. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, Vol. 1, 271-277, 1998.
  10. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Atomistic Models and Force Fields," In Computational Biochemistry and Biophysics O. Becker, A.D. MacKerell, Jr. B. Roux and M. Watanabe, Eds. Marcel Dekker Inc. New York, 7-38, 2001.
  11. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. Nilsson, L. "Nucleic Acid Simulations," In Computational Biochemistry and Biophysics O. Becker, A.D. MacKerell, Jr. B. Roux and M. Watanabe, Eds. Marcel Dekker Inc. New York, 441-463, 2001.
  12. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Interatomic Potentials: Molecules," In Handbook of Materials Modeling S. Yip, Ed. Lancaster Publishing Services, Lancaster, UK, 2005.
  13. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Empirical Force Fields," In Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction and Modeling I: Basic Characterization Y. Xu, D. Xu, J. Liang, Eds. Springer, New York, pp. 45-69, 2007.
  14. MacKerell, Jr. A.D. and Nilsson, L. "Theoretical Studies of Nucleic Acids and Nucleic Acid-Protein Complexes using CHARMM," In Computational Studies of RNA and DNA J. Sponer and F. Lankas, Eds. Springer, Netherlands, pp. 73-94, 2006.
  15. Guvench, O. and MacKerell, Jr. A.D. "Comparison of protein force fields for molecular dynamics simulations," In Molecular Modeling of Proteins, A. Kukol, Ed. Humana Press, Humana Press. 2008 (Methods Mol Biol. 2008;443:63-88. PMID: 18446282)
  16. Klauda, J.B., Venable, R.M., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Pastor, R.W. "Considerations for Lipid Force Field Development," In Computational Modeling of Membrane Bilayers, S. Feller, Editor, Elsevier, Inc. Chapter 1, pp 1-48, 2008.
  17. Priyakumar, U.D. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Molecular Modeling of Base Flipping in DNA, "In DNA and RNA modification Enzymes : Comparative Structure, Mechanism, Functions, Cellular Interactions and Evolution," Henri Grosjean, Editor, LANDES Biosciences Intelligence Unit, 2009
  18. Lopes, P.E.M, Harder, E., Roux, B., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Formalisms for the explicit inclusion of electronic polarizability in molecular modeling and dynamics studies," in "Multi-scale Quantum Models for Biocatalysis: Modern Techniques and Applications" Volume editors Darrin York and Tai-Sung Lee; in the series, Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 7, Editor J. Leszczynski, p 219-218, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-4020-9955-7
  19. Baker, C.M., Darian, E. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Towards Biomolecular Simulations with Explicit Inclusion of Polarizability: Development of a CHARMM Polarizable Force Field based on the Classical Drude Oscillator Model," Innovations in Biomolecular Modeling and Simulations, 2012, pp. 23-50,[DOI]
  20. Zhong, S., Oashi, T., Yu, W., Shapiro, P., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. "Prospects of modulating protein-protein interactions," In Protein-Ligand Interactions H. Gohlke ED., Methods and Principles in Medicinal Chemistry, Wiley-VCH Verlag Gmbh & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, p 295-329, 2012, ISBN: 978-3-527-32966-3
  21. Hartman, K.G., Wilder, W.T., Varney, K., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Coop, A., Njar, V., Zimmer, D., Lapidus, R., and Weber, D.J, "Inhibiting S100B in Malignant Melanoma," in "Melanoma - From Early Detection to Treatment," G. Huynh and T. Duc, editors, INTECH Open Science, Chapter 24, 2013, [DOI]
  22. Yu, W., Guvench, O., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Computational approaches for the design of PPI inhibitors," in "Understanding and exploiting protein$(G!7(Bprotein interactions as drug targets," e-book, Future Science Limited, pp. 90-102, 2013, [DOI]
  23. Jo, S., Wu, E.L., Stuhlsatz, D., Klauda, J.B., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Widmalm, G. and , Im, W., "Lipopolysaccharide Membrane Building and Simulation," in "Glycoinformatics," Chapter 24, Humana Press, New York, NY, Methods in Molecular Biology, 1273: 391-406, 2015, [DOI]
  24. Mallajosyula, S.S., Jo, S., Im, W., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Glycoproteins using CHARMM," Methods in Molecular Biology: Glycoinformatics. Chapter 25, Humana Press, New York, NY, 2014, PMC4537648, [DOI]
  25. Lopes, P.E.M., Guvench, O., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Current Status of Protein Force Fields for Molecular Dynamics," In Molecular Modeling of Proteins, 2nd edition, A. Kukol, Editor, Humana Press. Chapter 3, pp. 47 -72, 2014, [DOI], (Methods in Molecular Biology, 1215: 47-72, 2014).
  26. Jo, S., Cheng, X., Islam, S.M., Huang, L., Rui, H., Zhu, A., Lee, H.S., Qi, Y., Han, W., Vanommeslaeghe, K., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Roux, B., and Im, W. "CHARMM-GUI PDB Manipulator for Advanced Modeling and Simulations of Proteins Containing Nonstandard Residues," in Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology: Biomolecular Modelling and Simulations, T. Karabencheva-Christova, Editor, Elsevier, New York, Chapter 8, 235-266, 2014, [DOI]
  27. Faller, C.E., Prabhu Raman, E.P., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Guvench, O. "Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) Simulations for Fragment-Based Drug Design," in Fragment-Based Methods in Drug Discovery, Chapter 7, Anthony E. Klon (ed.), (Methods in Molecular Biology, 1289: 75-87 Springer Science+Business Media, New York, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4939-2485-1, PMC4685950, [DOI]
  28. Savelyev, A., Roux, B., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Explicit Inclusion of Induced Polarization in Atomistic Force Fields Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator Model," in "Many-Body Effects and Electrostatics in Biomolecules," Q. Cui and M. Meuwley, Editors, Pan Stanford Publishing, 191-232, 2016, [DOI]
  29. Small, M.C., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Force field representation of biomolecular systems," in in Silico Drug Discovery and Design: Theory, Methods, Challenges and Applications, Chapter 2, 45-77, CRC Press: Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN (978-1-4822-1783-4), [DOI]
  30. Yu, W. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Computer-Aided Drug Design Methods," in Antibiotics, Springer, New York, pp 85-106, 2017, (Methods in Molecular Biology, 1520:85-106, 2017), PMC5248982, [DOI]
  31. Lin, F.-Y., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., "Force fields for small molecules," in "Biomolecular Simulations," Editors: M. Bonomi and C. Camilloni, Springer, Methods in Molecular Biology, 2022: 21-54, 2019, PMC6733265, [DOI]
  32. Yu, W., Weber, D.J., Shapiro, P., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., (2020) "Developing Kinase Inhibitors Using Computer-Aided Drug Design Approaches." In: Shapiro P. (eds) Next Generation Kinase Inhibitors. Springer, Ebook, 2020: 81-108, [DOI]
  33. Yu, W., Weber, D.J., and MacKerell, A.D., Jr., (2022) ""Computer-Aided Drug Design" An Update," In Antibiotics, Peter Sass, Editor, Chapter 7, 978-1-0716-2854-6, 514362_2_En, Methods in Molecular Biology, 2601: 153-167, [DOI]
  34. Orr, A.A. and MacKerell A.D., Jr., (2022) "Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation as a Paradigm of co-solvent MD methods," In Computational Drug Discovery, (ed. Poongavanam, V. and Ramaswamy, V.), Chapter 5, WILEY-VCH. ISBN: 978-3-527-35166-4.


Patents
  1. "Immunomodulatory Compounds." Hayashi, J., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. U.S. Number 7,521,463, April 2009.
  2. "Methods and Compositions of Trail-Death Receptor Agonists/Activators" Srivastava, R., Shankar, S., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. U.S. Patent Number 7,915,245, March 2011.
  3. "Inhibitors of the S100-p53 Protein-Protein Interaction and Method of Inhibiting Cancer Employing the Same," Weber, D.J., Markowitz, J., Carrier, F. and MacKerell Jr., A.D., U.S. Patent Number 8,053,477, November 2011.
  4. "Small Molecule Inhibitors of BCL6" Melnick, A.M, MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Privé, G.G. US Patent Number 8,338,464, December 2012.
  5. "Compounds that Inhibit Human DNA Ligases and Methods of Treating Cancer" Tomkinson, A.E., Chen, X., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Dziegeilewska, B., Zhong, S., Wilson, G., U.S. Patent Number 8,445,537, May 2013.
  6. "Heme Oxygenase Inhibitors, Screening Methods for Heme Oxygenase Inhibitors and Methods of Use of Heme Oxygenase Inhibitors for Antimicrobial Therapy," Wilks, A., Furci, L., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Lopes, P.E.M., U.S. Patent Number 8,450,368, May 2013.
  7. "Small Molecule Inhibitors of LCK SH2 Domain Binding" MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Hayashi, J., Mia, Y., and Xia, G, U.S. Patent Number 8,476,273, July 2013.
  8. "SHP-2 phosphatase inhibitors," Qu, C.-K., Yu, W.-M., Guvench, O., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., U.S. Patent Number 8,673,913, March 2014
  9. "Targeting NAD Biosynthesis in Bacterial Pathogens" MacKerell Jr., A.D., Zhang, H., and Osterman, A. U.S. Patent Number 8,785,499, July 2014
  10. "Defensin-Like Molecules as Novel Antimicrobial Agents," De Leeuw, E and MacKerell Jr., A.D., U.S. Patent Number 8,796,323, August 2014
  11. "Targeting NAD Biosynthesis in Bacterial Pathogens" MacKerell Jr., A.D., Zhang, H., and Osterman, A. U.S. Patent Number 8,785,499, July 2014
  12. "Compounds that Inhibit Human DNA Ligases and Methods of Treating Cancer," Tomkinson, A.E., Dziegielewska, B., Wilson, G., MacKerell, A., Chen, H.X., and Zhong, S., U.S. Patent Number 9,073,896, March 2015
  13. "Mixed μ agonist/δ antagonist opioid analgesics with reduced tolerance liabilities and uses thereof," Coop, A., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Matsumoto, R., U.S. Patent Number 9,422,302, August 2016
  14. "Defensin-Like Molecules as Novel Antimicrobial Agents," De Leeuw, E and MacKerell Jr., A.D., U.S. Patent Number 9,351,963, November 2016.
  15. "LRRK2 GTP Binding Inhibitors for Treatment of Parkinson's Disease and Neuroinflammatory Disorders" Smith, W., Xue, F., and MacKerell, Jr., A.D., U.S. Patent Number 9,701,627, July 2017.
  16. "Compounds that Inhibit Human DNA Ligases and Methods of Treating Cancer," Tomkinson, A.E., Chen, H.X., Dziegielewska, B., MacKerell, Jr., A.D., Zhong, S. and Wilson, G.M., U.S. Patent Number 9,757,375, September 2017
  17. "BCL6 Inhibitors an Anticancer Agents" Melnick, A., Cerchietti, L.C.A., Cardenas, M.G., Xue, F., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., US Patent Number 9,943,506, April 2018
  18. "Method for binding site identification by molecular dynamics simulation (SILCS: Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation)" MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Guvench, O., US Patent Number 10,002,228, June 2018
  19. "RUNX2 Transcription Factor Inhibitors and Uses Thereof," Passaniti, A. and MacKerell, A.D., Jr. US Patent Number 10,329,246, June 2019
  20. "Inhibitors of the Notch Transcriptional Activation Complex and Methods of Use of the Same," Capobianco, A.J., MacKerell, A.D., Jr. and Spyvee, M., U.S. Patent Number 10,501,413, December 2019
  21. "Small molecule lipid II inhibitors," de Leeuw, E., MacKerell, A., Fletcher, S., Jamal, C., U.S. Patent Number 10,941,114, March 2021
  22. "Small molecule lipid II inhibitors," de Leeuw, E., MacKerell, A., Fletcher, S., Jamal, C., U.S. Patent Number 10,961,214, March 2021
  23. "Non-ATP/Catalytic Site p38 Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Inhibitors," Shapiro, P.S., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Hasday, J.D., Fletcher, S., Patent Number 11,078,171, August 2021
  24. "Protein Translation Inhibitors of Uses Thereof," Carrier, F., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Weber, D.J., Yu, W., U.S. Patent Number 11,510,908, November 2022.
  25. "Non-Catalytic Substrate-Selective P38(alpha)-Specific MAPK Inhibitors with Endothelial-Stabilizing and Anti-Inflammatory Activity, and Methods of Use Thereof" Shapiro, P.S., Hasday, J.D., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Japanese Patent No. 7013453, March 2022, US Patent No. 11,357,781, June 2022, Australian Patent number 2019392904, Chinese Patent Number ZL 2017800519068, June 2023, European Patent Number EP 3474835, July 2023, Japanese Patent No. 7372993, November 2023.
  26. "RUNX2 Transcription Factor Inhibitors and Uses Thereof" Passaniti, A., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., U.S. Patent Number 11,634,381, April 2023.
  27. "Non-ATP/Catalytic Site p38 Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Inhibitors," Shapiro, P.S., MacKerell, A.D., Jr., Hasday, J.D., Fletcher, S., U.S. Patent Number 11,718,595, August, 2023, Indian Patent No. 449739, September 2023.