Representative Publications

 

     Yu, Y., Makhatadze, G. I., Pace, C.N. & Privalov, P.L. (1994) Energetics of Ribonuclease T1 Structure. Biochemistry, 33, 3312-3319.

 

     Yu, Y., Monera, O.D., Hodges, R.S. & Privalov, P.L. (1996) Ion Pairs Significantly Stabilize Coiled-coils in the Absence of Electrolyte. J. Mol. Biol. 255, 367-372.

 

     Yu, Y., Monera, O.D., Hodges, R.S. & Privalov, P.L. (1996) Investigation of Electrostatic Interactions in Two-Stranded Coiled-coils through Residue Shuffling. Biophys. Chem. 59, 299-314.

 

     Yu, Y.B., Lavigne, P., Kay, C.M., Hodges, R.S. & Privalov, P.L. (1999) Contribution of Translational and Rotational Entropy to the Unfolding of a Dimeric Coiled-coil.  J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 2270-2278.

 

     Yu, Y.B. & Wang, W. (1999) Determinant of the Inertial Tensor and Rotational Entropy of Random Polymers.  J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 7676-7680.

 

     Yu, Y.B., Lavigne, P., Privalov, P.L. & Hodges, R.S.  (1999) The   Measure of Interior Disorder in a Folded Protein and its Contribution  to Stability.  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121, 8443-8449.  

      Yu, Y.B., Lavigne, P., Privalov, P.L. & Hodges, R.S.  (2000) Rotamer Number Revealed as Another Parameter to Gauge the Quality of Packing in Folded Proteins.  In “Peptides for the New Millennium”, G.B. Fields, J.P. Tam & G. Barany, Eds. (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.) pp318-319.

 

      Yu, Y.B., Wagschal, K.C., Mant, C.T. & Hodges, R.S.  (2000) Trapping the Monomeric a-Helical State During Unfolding of Coiled-coils by Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography.  J. Chromatogr. A 890, 81-94.

 

      Taylor, J., Wu, B., Greenfield, N.J., Yu, Y.B. & Privalov, P.L. (2000) A Calorimetric Study of the Helix-Coil Transition Using a Side-Chain Bridged Peptide that Folds and Unfolds Cooperatively. In “Peptides for the New Millennium”, G.B. Fields, J.P. Tam & G. Barany, Eds. (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.) pp280-282.

 

      Yu, Y.B., Privalov, P.L. & Hodges, R.S. (2001) Contribution of Translational and Rotational Motions to Molecular Association in Aqueous Solution. Biophys. J. 81, 1632-1642.

 

      Yu, Y. B. (2001) Standard State and Thermodynamic Self-Consistency. J. Pharm. Sci. 90, 2099-2102.

 

      Yu, Y. B.  (2002) Coiled-coils: Stability, Specificity, and Drug Delivery Potentials.  Adv. Drug Delivery  Rev. 54, 1113-1129.

 

      Yu, Y.B. (2003) Comment on “Computational studies of enzyme-catalyzed reactions: where are we in predicting mechanisms and in understanding the nature of enzyme catalysis”. J. Phys. Chem. 107, 1721.