How Photoisomerization Drives Peptide Folding and Unfolding: Insights from QM/MM and MM Dynamics Simulations

In Search of an Efficient Photoswitch for Functional RNA: Design Principles from a Microscopic Analysis of Azobenzene-linker-RNA Dynamics with Different Linkers

(2015) Padmabati Mondal et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Three-Dimensional Protein Networks Assembled by Two-Photon Activation

(2014) Volker Gatterdam et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Azobenzene Photoisomerization-Induced Destabilization of B-DNA

(2014) Mithun Biswas et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Molecular Dynamics Study of the Controlled Destabilization of an RNA Hairpin Structure by a Covalently Attached Azobenzene Switch

(2014) Dominique Rastädter et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Restoring Visual Function to Blind Mice with a Photoswitch that Exploits Electrophysiological Remodeling of Retinal Ganglion Cells

(2014) Ivan Tochitsky et al.   NEURON

The nature of protein folding pathways

(2014) S. Walter Englander et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Control of Nanomolar Interaction and In Situ Assembly of Proteins in Four Dimensions by Light

(2013) Noemi Labòria et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Azobenzene switch with a long-lived cis-state to photocontrol the enzyme activity of a histone deacetylase-like amidohydrolase

(2013) Michael Korbus et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Periodic decay in the photoisomerisation of p-aminoazobenzene

(2013) José A. Gámez et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Bidirectional Photocontrol of Peptide Conformation with a Bridged Azobenzene Derivative

(2012) Subhas Samanta et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Cooperating Dinitrogen and Phenyl Rotations in trans-Azobenzene Photoisomerization

(2012) José A. Gámez et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Bis-Azobenzene Crosslinkers for Photocontrol of Peptide Structure

(2011) Subhas Samanta et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Azobenzene photoswitches for biomolecules

(2011) Andrew A. Beharry et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Photoisomerization in different classes of azobenzene

(2011) H. M. Dhammika Bandara et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics Study of thecis–transPhotoisomerization of Azobenzene Excited to theS1State

(2011) Marek Pederzoli et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Real Time Observation of Ultrafast Peptide Conformational Dynamics: Molecular Dynamics Simulation vs Infrared Experiment

(2011) Phuong H. Nguyen et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Chiral Pathways and Periodic Decay in cis-Azobenzene Photodynamics

(2011) Oliver Weingart et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Photodynamics and Time-Resolved Fluorescence of Azobenzene in Solution: A Mixed Quantum-Classical Simulation

(2011) Teresa Cusati et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photocontrol of Coiled-Coil Proteins in Living Cells

(2010) Fuzhong Zhang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Slow Folding of Cross-Linked α-Helical Peptides Due to Steric Hindrance

(2010) B. Paoli et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Recyclization Rate of a Photocleaved Peptide from Multiscale Simulation

(2010) Harald Nieber et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Switching of functionalized azobenzene suspended between gold tips by mechanochemical, photochemical, and opto-mechanical means

(2010) Robert Turanský et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Optical, Mechanical, and Opto-Mechanical Switching of Anchored Dithioazobenzene Bridges

(2009) Robert Turanský et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Bulky Side Chains and Non-native Salt Bridges Slow down the Folding of a Cross-Linked Helical Peptide: A Combined Molecular Dynamics and Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy Study

(2009) Beatrice Paoli et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Structure-Based Approach to the Photocontrol of Protein Folding

(2009) Fuzhong Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Temporally precise in vivo control of intracellular signalling

(2009) Raag D. Airan et al.   NATURE

A genetically encoded photoactivatable Rac controls the motility of living cells

(2009) Yi I. Wu et al.   NATURE

Direct inhibition of the NOTCH transcription factor complex

(2009) Raymond E. Moellering et al.   NATURE

Controlling the enzymatic activity of a restriction enzyme by light

(2009) B. Schierling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contemporary strategies for the stabilization of peptides in the α-helical conformation

(2008) Laura K Henchey et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Solution Structure of a Hydrocarbon Stapled Peptide Inhibitor in Complex with Monomeric C-terminal Domain of HIV-1 Capsid

(2008) Shibani Bhattacharya et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Interfacial Properties of Mixed β-Lactoglobulin−SDS Layers at the Water/Air and Water/Oil Interface

(2008) Vincent Pradines et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

The Different Photoisomerization Efficiency of Azobenzene in the Lowest nπ* and ππ* Singlets: The Role of a Phantom State

(2008) Irene Conti et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

 -Helix folding in the presence of structural constraints

(2008) J. A. Ihalainen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Optical Switches for Remote and Noninvasive Control of Cell Signaling

(2008) P. Gorostiza et al.   SCIENCE