Author

Zhen Tao Chu

Observed names: Zhen T. Chu, Zhen-Tao Chu

Institution: University of Southern California

Observed institutions: University of Southern California, California Institute of Technology, Uppsala University, National Institutes of Health, University of Washington, University of Gdańsk, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

OpenAlex ID: A5110110180

Microscopic and semimicroscopic calculations of electrostatic energies in proteins by the POLARIS and ENZYMIX programs

1993 · Frederick S. Lee, Zhen Tao Chu, et al. · Journal of Computational Chemistry · 440

Consistent Calculations of pKa's of Ionizable Residues in Proteins: Semi-microscopic and Microscopic Approaches

1997 · Yuk Yin Sham, Zhen Tao Chu, et al. · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 354

Calculations of antibody-antigen interactions: microscopic and semi-microscopic evaluation of the free energies of binding of phosphorylcholine analogs to McPC603

1992 · Frederick S. Lee, Zhen-Tao Chu, et al. · Protein Engineering Design and Selection · 305

Electrostatic control of charge separation in bacterial photosynthesis

1990 · William W. Parson, Zhen-Tao Chu, et al. · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics · 254

Examining methods for calculations of binding free energies: LRA, LIE, PDLD-LRA, and PDLD/S-LRA calculations of ligands binding to an HIV protease

2000 · Yuk Yin Sham, Zhen Tao Chu, et al. · Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics · 223

The Reorganization Energy of Cytochrome c Revisited

1997 · Ingo Muegge, Phoebe X. Qi, et al. · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 216

Calculations of Electrostatic Energies in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers

1995 · Rhett G. Alden, William W. Parson, et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 137

Exploring challenges in rational enzyme design by simulating the catalysis in artificial kemp eliminase

2010 · Maria P. Frushicheva, Jie Cao, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 128

Ketosteroid isomerase provides further support for the idea that enzymes work by electrostatic preorganization

2010 · Shina C.L. Kamerlin, Pankaz K. Sharma, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 102

A new paradigm for electrostatic catalysis of radical reactions in vitamin B 12 enzymes

2007 · Pankaz K. Sharma, Zhen T. Chu, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 102

Orientation of the OH Dipole of Tyrosine (M)210 and Its Effect on Electrostatic Energies in Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers

1996 · Rhett G. Alden, William W. Parson, et al. · The Journal of Physical Chemistry · 98

Reorganization Energy of the Initial Electron-Transfer Step in Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers

1998 · William W. Parson, Zhen Tao Chu, et al. · Biophysical Journal · 93

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Electrostatic basis for the unidirectionality of the primary proton transfer in cytochrome c oxidase

2008 · Andrei V. Pisliakov, Pankaz K. Sharma, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 90

Electrostatic Contributions to Binding of Transition State Analogues Can Be Very Different from the Corresponding Contributions to Catalysis: Phenolates Binding to the Oxyanion Hole of Ketosteroid Isomerase

2007 · Arieh Warshel, Pankaz K. Sharma, et al. · Biochemistry · 77

Methyltransferases do not work by compression, cratic, or desolvation effects, but by electrostatic preorganization

2014 · Jeronimo Lameira, Ram Prasad Bora, et al. · Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics · 68

Multiscale simulations of protein landscapes: Using coarse‐grained models as reference potentials to full explicit models

2009 · Benjamin M. Messer, Maite Roca, et al. · Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics · 68

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Realistic Simulations of Proton Transport along the Gramicidin Channel: Demonstrating the Importance of Solvation Effects

2004 · Sonja Braun-Sand, Anton Burykin, et al. · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 67

On Catalytic Preorganization in Oxyanion Holes: Highlighting the Problems with the Gas-Phase Modeling of Oxyanion Holes and Illustrating the Need for Complete Enzyme Models

2010 · Shina C. L. Kamerlin, Zhen T. Chu, et al. · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 54

Accelerating QM/MM Free Energy Calculations: Representing the Surroundings by an Updated Mean Charge Distribution

2008 · Edina Rosta, Maciej Haranczyk, et al. · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 54

Refining the treatment of membrane proteins by coarse‐grained models

2015 · Igor Vorobyov, Ilsoo Kim, et al. · Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics · 53

Quantifying the Mechanism of Phosphate Monoester Hydrolysis in Aqueous Solution by Evaluating the Relevant Ab Initio QM/MM Free-Energy Surfaces

2013 · Nikolay V. Plotnikov, B. Ram Prasad, et al. · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 49

The energetics of the primary proton transfer in bacteriorhodopsin revisited: It is a sequential light-induced charge separation after all

2008 · Sonja Braun-Sand, Pankaz K. Sharma, et al. · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics · 40

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Path Integral Simulation of the H/D Kinetic Isotope Effect in Monoamine Oxidase B Catalyzed Decomposition of Dopamine

2016 · Janez Mavri, Ricardo A. Matute, et al. · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 29

Oscillations of the energy gap for the initial electron-transfer step in bacterial reaction centers

1998 · William W. Parson, Zhen Tao Chu, et al. · Photosynthesis Research · 20

Microscopic simulation of quantum dynamics and nuclear tunneling in bacterial reaction centers

1989 · Zhen Tao Chu, Arieh Warshel, et al. · Photosynthesis Research · 13

Works count: 30

Citation count: 3,169

H-index: 23

I10-index: 25