Publications

Hassan, B. A., Liu, Z. A., Milicaj, J., Kim, M. S., Tyson, M., Sham, Y. Y., Taylor, E. A. (2022). Kinetic Characterization and Computational Modeling of Escherichia coli Heptosyltransferase II: Exploring the Role of Protein Dynamics in Catalysis for GT-B Glycosyltransferase. Biochemistry, 61(15), 1572-1584. PMID: 35861590 doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00329
Milicaj, J., Hassan, B. A., Cote, J. M., Ramirez-Mondragon, C. A., Jaunbocus, N., Rafalowski, A., Patel, K. R., Castro, C. D., Muthyala, R., Sham, Y. Y., Taylor, E. A. (2022). Discovery of first-in-class nanomolar inhibitors of heptosyltransferase I reveals a new aminoglycoside target and potential alternative mechanism of action. Scientific reports, 12(1), 7302. PMID: 35508636 PMCID: PMC9068772 doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-10776-x
Milicaj*, J., Dodda*, V. R., Patel, K. R., Rodriguez Aragon, I., O'Connell, T., Muthyala, R. (Corresponding Author), Taylor, E. A. (Corresponding Author), Sham, Y. Y. (Corresponding Author) (2022). Facile and adaptable synthesis of a Prazosin analogue library: Bringing medicinal chemistry into the undergraduate curriculum. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION, 99, 1428-1434. doi: doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00822
Hassan, B. A., Milicaj, J., Ramirez-Mondragon, C. A., Sham, Y. Y., Taylor, E. A. (2022). Ligand-Induced Conformational and Dynamical Changes in a GT-B Glycosyltransferase: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Heptosyltransferase I Complexes. Journal of chemical information and modeling, 62(2), 324-339. PMID: 34967618 PMCID: PMC8864558 doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.1c00868
Ampudia-Mesias, E., Puerta-Martinez, F., Bridges, M., Zellmer, D., Janeiro, A., Strokes, M., Sham, Y. Y., Taher, A., Castro, M., Moertel, C. L., Pluhar, G. E., Olin, M. R. (2021). CD200 Immune-Checkpoint Peptide Elicits an Anti-glioma Response Through the DAP10 Signaling Pathway. NEUROTHERAPEUTICS, 18(3), 1980-1994. doi: 10.1007/s13311-021-01038-1
Ramirez-Mondragon, C. A., Nguyen, M. E., Milicaj, J., Hassan, B. A., Tucci, F. J., Muthyala, R., Gao, J., Taylor, E. A., Sham, Y. Y. (2021). Conserved Conformational Hierarchy across Functionally Divergent Glycosyltransferases of the GT-B Structural Superfamily as Determined from Microsecond Molecular Dynamics. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, 22(9). doi: 10.3390/ijms22094619
Shin, W. S., Nguyen, M. E., Bergstrom, A., Jennings, I. R., Crowder, M. W., Muthyala, R., Sham, Y. Y. (2021). Fragment-based screening and hit-based substructure search: Rapid discovery of 8-hydroxyquinoline-7-carboxylic acid as a low-cytotoxic, nanomolar metallo beta-lactamase inhibitor. CHEMICAL BIOLOGY & DRUG DESIGN, 98(4), 481-492. doi: 10.1111/cbdd.13912
Ortiz-Cordero, C., Magli, A., Dhoke, N. R., Kuebler, T., Selvaraj, S., Oliveira, Nelio A. J., Zhou, H., Sham, Y. Y., Bang, A. G., Perlingeiro, Rita C. R. (2021). NAD plus enhances ribitol and ribose rescue of alpha-dystroglycan functional glycosylation in human FKRP-mutant myotubes. ELIFE, 10. doi: 10.7554/eLife.65443
Xiong, Z., Mesias, E. A., Pluhar, G. E., Rathe, S. K., Largaespada, D. A., Sham, Y. Y., Moertel, C. L., Olin, M. R. (2020). CD200 Checkpoint Reversal: A Novel Approach to Immunotherapy. CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH, 26(1), 232-241. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-2234
Cote, J. M., Hecht, Cody J. S., Patel, K. R., Ramirez-Mondragon, C. A., Sham, Y. Y., Taylor, E. A. (2020). Opposites Attract: Escherichia coli Heptosyltransferase I Conformational Changes Induced by Interactions between the Substrate and Positively Charged Residues. BIOCHEMISTRY, 59(34), 3135-3147. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b01005
Sahu, B. S., Rodriguez, P., Nguyen, M. E., Han, R., Cero, C., Razzoli, M., Piaggi, P., Laskowski, L. J., Pavlicev, M., Muglia, L., Mahata, S. K., O'Grady, S., McCorvy, J. D., Baier, L. J., Sham, Y. Y., Bartolomucci, A. (2019). Peptide/Receptor Co-evolution Explains the Lipolytic Function of the Neuropeptide TLQP-21. CELL REPORTS, 28(10), 2567-+. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.07.101
Zafar, S., Nguyen, M. E., Muthyala, R., Jabeen, I., Sham, Y. Y. (2019). Modeling and Simulation of hGAT1: A Mechanistic Investigation of the GABA Transport Process. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 17, 61-69. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2018.12.003
Seiler, C. L., Fernandez, J., Koerperich, Z., Andersen, M. P., Kotandeniya, D., Nguyen, M. E., Sham, Y. Y., Tretyakova, N. Y. (2018). Maintenance DNA Methyltransferase Activity in the Presence of Oxidized Forms of 5-Methylcytosine: Structural Basis for Ten Eleven Translocation-Mediated DNA Demethylation. Biochemistry, 57(42), 6061-6069. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00683
Cong, H., Zhao, X., Castle, B. T., Pomeroy, E. J., Zhou, B., Lee, J., Wang, Y., Bian, T., Miao, Z., Zhang, W., Sham, Y. Y., Odde, D. J., Eckfeldt, C. E., Xing, C., Zhuang, C. (2018). An Indole-Chalcone Inhibits Multidrug-Resistant Cancer Cell Growth by Targeting Microtubules. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 15(9), 3892-3900. doi: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.8b00359
Vetter, A. D., Houang, E. M., Sell, J. J., Thompson, B. R., Sham, Y. Y., Metzger, J. M. (2018). TnI Structural Interface with the N-Terminal Lobe of TnC as a Determinant of Cardiac Contractility. Biophysical Journal, 114(7), 1646-1656. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.02.015
Zhou, Y., Wu, Y., Pokholenko, O., Grimsrud, M., Sham, Y., Papper, V., Marks, R., Steele, T. (2018). Aptamer adaptive binding assessed by stilbene photoisomerization towards regenerating aptasensors. Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 257, 245-255. doi: 10.1016/j.snb.2017.10.135
Kotandeniya, D., Seiler, C. L., Fernandez, J., Pujari, S. S., Curwick, L., Murphy, K., Wickramaratne, S., Yan, S., Murphy, D., Sham, Y. Y., Tretyakova, N. Y. (2018). Can 5-methylcytosine analogues with extended alkyl side chains guide DNA methylation? Chemical Communications, 54(9), 1061-1064. doi: 10.1039/c7cc06867k
Houang, E. M., Bates, F. S., Sham, Y. Y., Metzger, J. M. (2017). All-Atom Molecular Dynamics-Based Analysis of Membrane-Stabilizing Copolymer Interactions with Lipid Bilayers Probed under Constant Surface Tensions. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121(47), 10657-10664. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b08938
Houang, E. M., Haman, K. J., Kim, M., Zhang, W., Lowe, D. A., Sham, Y. Y., Lodge, T. P., Hackel, B. J., Bates, F. S., Metzger, J. M. (2017). Chemical End Group Modified Diblock Copolymers Elucidate Anchor and Chain Mechanism of Membrane Stabilization. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 14(7), 2333-2339. doi: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00197
Cote, J. M., Ramirez-Mondragon, C. A., Siegel, Z. S., Czyzyk, D. J., Gao, J., Sham, Y. Y., Mukerji, I., Taylor, E. A. (2017). The Stories Tryptophans Tell: Exploring Protein Dynamics of Heptosyltransferase I from Escherichia coli. Biochemistry, 56(6), 886-895. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00850
Shin, W. S., Bergstrom, A., Bonomo, R. A., Crowder, M. W., Muthyala, R., Sham, Y. Y. (2017). Discovery of 1-Hydroxypyridine-2(1H)-thione-6-carboxylic Acid as a First-in-Class Low-Cytotoxic Nanomolar Metallo β-Lactamase Inhibitor. ChemMedChem, 12(11), 845-849. doi: 10.1002/cmdc.201700182
Wickramaratne, S., Ji, S., Mukherjee, S., Su, Y., Pence, M. G., Lior-Hoffmann, L., Fu, I., Broyde, S., Guengerich, F. P., Distefano, M., Schãrer, O. D., Sham, Y. Y., Tretyakova, N. (2016). Bypass of DNA-protein cross-links conjugated to the 7-deazaguanine position of DNA by translesion synthesis polymerases. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291(45), 23589-23603. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M116.745257
Peng, Z., Xu, W. W., Sham, Y., Lam, H., Sun, D., Cheng, L., Rasic, N. F., Guan, Q., James, A. A., Simons, F. E.R. (2016). Mosquito salivary allergen Aed a 3: Cloning, comprehensive molecular analysis, and clinical evaluation. Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 71(5), 621-628. doi: 10.1111/all.12812
Akgün, E., Javed, M. I., Lunzer, M. M., Powers, M. D., Sham, Y. Y., Watanabe, Y., Portoghese, P. S. (2015). Inhibition of inflammatory and neuropathic pain by targeting a Mu opioid receptor/chemokine receptor5 heteromer (MOR-CCR<inf>5</inf>). Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 58(21), 8647-8657. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b01245
Muthyala, R., Shin, W. S., Xie, J., Sham, Y. Y. (2015). Discovery of 1-hydroxypyridine-2-thiones as selective histone deacetylase inhibitors and their potential application for treating leukemia. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 25(19), 4320-4324. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2015.07.065
Muthyala, R., Rastogi, N., Shin, W. S., Peterson, M. L., Sham, Y. Y. (2014). Cell permeable vanX inhibitors as vancomycin re-sensitizing agents. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 24(11), 2535-2538. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2014.03.097
Thompson, B. R., Houang, E. M., Sham, Y. Y., Metzger, J. M. (2014). Molecular determinants of cardiac myocyte performance as conferred by isoform-specific tni residues. Biophysical Journal, 106(10), 2105-2114. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.04.017
Zhuang, C., Narayanapillai, S., Zhang, W., Sham, Y. Y., Xing, C. (2014). Rapid identification of Keap1-Nrf2 small-molecule inhibitors through structure-based virtual screening and hit-based substructure search. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 57(3), 1121-1126. doi: 10.1021/jm4017174
Zhuang, C., Sheng, C., Shin, W. S., Wu, Y., Li, J., Yao, J., Dong, G., Zhang, W., Sham, Y. Y., Miao, Z., Zhang, W. (2014). A novel drug discovery strategy: Mechanistic investigation of an enantiomeric antitumor agent targeting dual p53 and NF-κB pathways. Oncotarget, 5(21), 10830-10839. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.2521
Zhou, W., Chen, F., Klyachkin, Y., Sham, Y. Y., Geraghty, R. J. (2014). Mutations in the amino terminus of herpes simplex virus type 1 gL can reduce cell-cell fusion without affecting gH/gL trafficking. Journal of Virology, 88(1), 739-744. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02383-13
Ferreira, R., Artali, R., Benoit, A., Gargallo, R., Eritja, R., Ferguson, D. M., Sham, Y. Y., Mazzini, S. (2013). Structure and Stability of Human Telomeric G-Quadruplex with Preclinical 9-Amino Acridines. PLoS ONE, 8(3). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057701
Sirivolu, V. R., Vernekar, S. K., Marchand, C., Naumova, A., Chergui, A., Renaud, A., Stephen, A. G., Chen, F., Sham, Y. Y., Pommier, Y., Wang, Z. (2012). 5-Arylidenethioxothiazolidinones as Inhibitors of Tyrosyl-DNA Phosphodiesterase i. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 55(20), 8671-8684. doi: 10.1021/jm3008773
Palpant, N. J., Houang, E. M., Sham, Y. Y., Metzger, J. M. (2012). PH-responsive titratable inotropic performance of histidine-modified cardiac troponin i. Biophysical Journal, 102(7), 1570-1579. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.01.024
Chen, Y. L., Tang, J., Kesler, M. J., Sham, Y. Y., Vince, R., Geraghty, R. J., Wang, Z. (2012). The design, synthesis and biological evaluations of C-6 or C-7 substituted 2-hydroxyisoquinoline-1,3-diones as inhibitors of hepatitis C virus. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 20(1), 467-479. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2011.10.058
Wilson, D. J., Shi, C., Duckworth, B. P., Muretta, J. M., Manjunatha, U., Sham, Y. Y., Thomas, D. D., Aldrich, C. C. (2011). A continuous fluorescence displacement assay for BioA: An enzyme involved in biotin biosynthesis. Analytical Biochemistry, 416(1), 27-38. doi: 10.1016/j.ab.2011.05.003
Li, L., Sham, Y. Y., Bikadi, Z., Elmquist, W. F. (2011). pH-dependent transport of pemetrexed by breast cancer resistance protein. Drug Metabolism and Disposition, 39(9), 1478-1485. doi: 10.1124/dmd.111.039370
Tang, J., Maddali, K., Dreis, C. D., Sham, Y. Y., Vince, R., Pommier, Y., Wang, Z. (2011). 6-Benzoyl-3-hydroxypyrimidine-2,4-diones as dual inhibitors of HIV reverse transcriptase and integrase. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 21(8), 2400-2402. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2011.02.069
Tang, J., Maddali, K., Metifiot, M., Sham, Y. Y., Vince, R., Pommier, Y., Wang, Z. (2011). 3-Hydroxypyrimidine-2,4-diones as an Inhibitor Scaffold of HIV Integrase. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 54(7), 2282-2292. doi: 10.1021/jm1014378
Tang, J., Maddali, K., Dreis, C. D., Sham, Y. Y., Vince, R., Pommier, Y., Wang, Z. (2011). N-3 hydroxylation of pyrimidine-2,4-diones yields dual inhibitors of HIV reverse transcriptase and integrase. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2(1), 63-67. doi: 10.1021/ml1002162
Chen, L., Petrelli, R., Gao, G., Wilson, D. J., McLean, G. T., Jayaram, H. N., Sham, Y. Y., Pankiewicz, K. W. (2010). Dual inhibitors of inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase and histone deacetylase based on a cinnamic hydroxamic acid core structure. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 18(16), 5950-5964. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2010.06.081
Palpant, N. J., Houang, E. M., Delport, W., Hastings, K. E., Onufriev, A. V., Sham, Y. Y., Metzger, J. M. (2010). Pathogenic peptide deviations support a model of adaptive evolution of chordate cardiac performance by troponin mutations. Physiological Genomics, 42(2), 287-299. doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00033.2010
Chen, L., Wilson, D. J., Xu, Y., Aldrich, C. C., Felczak, K., Sham, Y. Y., Pankiewicz, K. W. (2010). Triazole-linked inhibitors of inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase from human and mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 53(12), 4768-4778. doi: 10.1021/jm100424m
Tang, J., Maddali, K., Pommier, Y., Sham, Y. Y., Wang, Z. (2010). Scaffold rearrangement of dihydroxypyrimidine inhibitors of HIV integrase: Docking model revisited. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 20(11), 3275-3279. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.04.048
Lu, D., Sham, Y. Y., Vince, R. (2010). Design, asymmetric synthesis, and evaluation of pseudosymmetric sulfoximine inhibitors against HIV-1 protease. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 18(5), 2037-2048. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2010.01.020
Petrelli, R., Sham, Y. Y., Chen, L., Felczak, K., Bennett, E., Wilson, D., Aldrich, C., Yu, J. S., Cappellacci, L., Franchetti, P., Grifantini, M., Mazzola, F., Di Stefano, M., Magni, G., Pankiewicz, K. W. (2009). Selective inhibition of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide kinases by dinucleoside disulfide mimics of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide analogues. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 17(15), 5656-5664. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2009.06.013
Cohen, D. N., Sham, Y. Y., Haugstad, G. D., Xiang, Y., Rossmann, M. G., Anderson, D. L., Popham, D. L. (2009). Shared Catalysis in Virus Entry and Bacterial Cell Wall Depolymerization. Journal of Molecular Biology, 387(3), 607-618. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.02.001
Raza, A., Sham, Y. Y., Vince, R. (2008). Design and synthesis of sulfoximine based inhibitors for HIV-1 protease. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 18(20), 5406-5410. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.09.044
Nesmelova, I. V., Sham, Y., Gao, J., Mayo, K. H. (2008). CXC and CC chemokines form mixed heterodimers: Association free energies from molecular dynamics simulations and experimental correlations. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283(35), 24155-24166. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M803308200
Duckworth, B. P., Chen, Y., Wollack, J. W., Sham, Y., Mueller, J. D., Taton, T. A., Distefano, M. D. (2007). A universal method for the preparation of covalent protein-DNA conjugates for use in creating protein nanostructures. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 46(46), 8819-8822. doi: 10.1002/anie.200701942
Chou, T. F., Sham, Y. Y., Wagner, C. R. (2007). Impact of the C-terminal loop of histidine triad nucleotide binding protein 1 (Hint1) on substrate specificity. Biochemistry, 46(45), 13074-13079. doi: 10.1021/bi701244h
Xing, C., Wang, L., Tang, X. H., Sham, Y. Y. (2007). Development of selective inhibitors for anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins from BHI-1. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry(5), 2167-2176. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2006.12.020
Li, M., He, Z., Ermakova, S., Zheng, D., Tang, F., Cho, Y. Y., Zhu, F., Ma, W. Y., Sham, Y., Rogozin, E. A., Bode, A. M., Cao, Y., Dong, Z. (2007). Direct inhibition of insulin-like growth factor-I receptor kinase activity by (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate regulates cell transformation. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, 16(3), 598-605. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-06-0892
Ma, L., Sham, Y. Y., Walters, K. J., Towle, H. C. (2007). A critical role for the loop region of the basic helix-loop-helix/ leucine zipper protein Mlx in DNA binding and glucose-regulated transcription. Nucleic Acids Research, 35(1), 35-44. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkl987
Kumar, V., Locuson, C. W., Sham, Y. Y., Tracy, T. S. (2006). Amiodarone analog-dependent effects on CYP2C9-mediated metabolism and kinetic profiles. Drug Metabolism and Disposition, 34(10), 1688-1696. doi: 10.1124/dmd.106.010678
Zhang, Y., Sham, Y. Y., Rajamani, R., Gao, J., Portoghese, P. S. (2005). Homology modeling and molecular dynamics simulations of the mu opioid receptor in a membrane-aqueous system. ChemBioChem, 6(5), 853-859. doi: 10.1002/cbic.200400207
Nesmelova, I. V., Sham, Y., Dudek, A. Z., Van Eijk, L. I., Wu, G., Slungaard, A., Mortari, F., Griffioen, A. W., Mayo, K. H. (2005). Platelet factor 4 and interleukin-8 CXC chemokine heterodimer formation modulates function at the quaternary structural level. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280(6), 4948-4958. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M405364200
Fitch, B. G., Germain, R. S., Mendell, M., Pitera, J., Pitman, M., Rayshubskiy, A., Sham, Y., Suits, F., Swope, W., Ward, T. J.C., Zhestkov, Y., Zhou, R. (2003). Blue Matter, an application framework for molecular simulation on Blue Gene. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 63(7-8), 759-773. doi: 10.1016/S0743-7315(03)00084-4
Sham, Y. Y., Ma, B., Tsai, C. J., Nussinov, R. (2002). Thermal unfolding molecular dynamics simulation of Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase: Thermal stability of protein domains and unfolding pathway. 46(3), 308-320. doi: 10.1002/prot.10040
Tsai, C. J., Ma, B., Sham, Y. Y., Kumar, S., Wolfson, H. J., Nussinov, R. (2001). A hierarchical, building-block-based computational scheme for protein structure prediction. IBM Journal of Research and Development, 45(3-4), 513-523. https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0035327482
Allen, F., Almasi, G., Andreoni, W., Beece, D., Berne, B. J., Bright, A., Brunheroto, J., Cascaval, C., Castanos, J., Coteus, P., Crumley, P., Curioni, A., Denneau, M., Donath, W., Eleftheriou, M., Fitch, B., Fleischer, B., Georgiou, C. J., Germain, R., Giampapa, M., Gresh, D., Gupta, M., Haring, R., Ho, H., Hochschild, P., Hummel, S., Jonas, T., Lieber, D., Martyna, G., Maturu, K., Moreira, J., Newns, D., Newton, M., Philhower, R., Picunko, T., Pitera, J., Pitman, M., Rand, R., Royyuru, A., Salapura, V., Sanomiya, A., Shah, R., Sham, Y., Singh, S., Snir, M., Suits, F., Swetz, R., Swope, W. C., Vishnumurthy, N., Ward, T. J.C., Warren, H., Zhou, R. (2001). Blue Gene: A vision for protein science using a petaflop supercomputer. IBM Systems Journal, 40(2), 310-327. doi: 10.1147/sj.402.0310
Kumar, S., Sham, Y. Y., Tsai, C. J., Nussinov, R. (2001). Protein folding and function: The N-terminal fragment in adenylate kinase. Biophysical Journal, 80(5), 2439-2454. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(01)76213-3
Villà, J., Štrajbl, M., Glennon, T. M., Sham, Y. Y., Chu, Z. T., Warshel, A. (2000). How important are entropic contributions to enzyme catalysis? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 97(22), 11899-11904. doi: 10.1073/pnas.97.22.11899
Sham, Y. Y., Chu, Z. T., Tao, H., Warshel, A. (2000). Examining methods for calculations of binding free energies: LRA, LIE, PDLD-LRA, and PDLD/S-LRA calculations of ligands binding to an HIV protease. Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics, 39(4), 393-407. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(20000601)39:4<393::AID-PROT120>3.0.CO;2-H
Strajbl, M., Sham, Y. Y., Villà, J., Chu, Z. T., Warshel, A. (2000). Calculations of Activation Entropies of Chemical Reactions in Solution. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 104(18), 4578-4584. https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0000997465
Sham, Y. Y., Muegge, I., Warshel, A. (1999). Simulating proton translocations in proteins: Probing proton transfer pathways in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center. Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics, 36(4), 484-500. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19990901)36:4<484::AID-PROT13>3.0.CO;2-R
Sham, Y. Y., Warshel, A. (1998). The surface constraint all atom model provides size independent results in calculations of hydration free energies. Journal of Chemical Physics, 109(18), 7940-7944. doi: 10.1063/1.477441
Sham, Y. Y., Muegge, I., Warshel, A. (1998). The effect of protein relaxation on charge-charge interactions and dielectric constants of proteins. Biophysical Journal, 74(4), 1744-1753. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77885-3
Sham, Y. Y., Chu, Z. T., Warshel, A. (1997). Consistent calculations of pK<inf>a</inf>'s of ionizable residues in proteins: Semi-microscopic and microscopic approaches. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 101(22), 4458-4472. https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0000671518
Sham, Y. Y., Joens, J. A. (1995). Temperature dependent near UV molar absorptivities of several small aldehydes in aqueous solution. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 51(2), 247-251. doi: 10.1016/0584-8539(94)E0089-S

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