h-index=13
Journal Publications:
1. M. S. Cheung,
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The prediction was later experimentally verified (Aubert
et al, Nature, 405,
586-590, 2000).
2.
M. S. Cheung, A. E. García, J. N. Onuchic. ¡§Protein folding mediated by solvation: water expelling and formation of the hydrophobic
core occurs after the structure collapse¡¨ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
U. S. A., 99, 685-690 (2002).
3. C. Guo, M. S. Cheung, H. Levine, D. A. Kessler. ¡§Mechanisms underlying
sequence-independent beta-sheet formation¡¨ J. Chem. Phys. 116,
4353-4365 (2002).
4.
M. S. Cheung, J. M. Finke, B.
Callahan, J. N. Onuchic. ¡§Exploring the interplay of topology and secondary structural
formation in the protein folding problem¡¨ J. Phys. Chem., B, 107, 11193-11200 (2003).
5.
M. S. Cheung, L. L. Chavez,
J. N. Onuchic.
¡§The Energy Landscape for Protein Folding and Possible Connections to
Function¡¨ Polymer, 45, 547-555
(2004).
6. A. Fernandez-Escamilla,
M. S. Cheung,
M.
C. Vega, M. Wilmanns, J. N. Onuchic, L.
Serrano. ¡§Solvation in protein folding analysis, combination of theoretical and experimental
approaches¡¨ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 101,
2834-2839 (2004).
7. J. M. Finke, M. S. Cheung, J. N. Onuchic. ¡§A
structural model of polyglutamine determined from a
host-guest method combining experiments and landscape theory¡¨ Biophys. J. 87,
1900-1918 (2004).
8. S. Yang, S. S. Cho, Y. Levy, M. S. Cheung, H. Levine, P. G. Wolynes, J. N. Onuchic. ¡§Domain swapping is a consequence of minimal
frustration¡¨. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.,
101, 13786-13791 (2004).
9. M. S. Cheung, D. Klimov, D. Thirumalai.
¡§Molecular crowding enhances
native state stability and refolding rates¡¨. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 102,
4753-4758 (2005).
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This paper was highlighted by Journal of
Cell Biology in the
10. J. Chahine, M. S.
Cheung. ¡§Computational studies of the reversible domain swapping of
p13suc1¡¨, Biophys. J. 89, 1-9 (2005).
11. M. S. Cheung, D. Thirumalai.
¡§Nanopore-protein interactions dramatically alter
stability and yield of the native state in restricted spaces¡¨, J. Mol. Biol. 357, 632-643 (2006).
12. M. E. Sardiu,
M. S. Cheung, Y.-K. Yu. ¡§Cysteine-Cysteine contact preference leads to
target-focusing in protein folding¡¨, Biophys. J. 93
1-14 (2007).
13. M. S. Cheung, D. Thirumalai,
¡§Crowding and confinement effects on structures of the transition state
ensemble in proteins¡¨, J. Phys. Chem. B.111
8250-8257 (2007).
14. S.-Q.Zhang, M. S.
Cheung. ¡§Manipulating Biopolymer Dynamics by Anisotropic Nanoconfinement¡¨, Nano Letters, 7, 3438-3442 (2007).
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This paper
was in Research Highlights , Nature Nanotechnology on-line
15. L. Stagg, S.-Q.Zhang, M. S. Cheung, P. Wittung-Stafshede.
¡§Molecular crowding enhances native structure and stability of £\/£] protein flavodoxin¡¨, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
U. S. A., 104, 18976-18981 (2007).
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This paper was featured in Nov 14th
07, Rice News
16. D. Homouz, M. Perham, A. Samiotakis,
M. S. Cheung, P. Wittung-Stafshede.
¡§Crowded, cell-like environment induces shape changes in aspherical
protein¡¨, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.,105, 11754-11759 (2008).
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This paper
was featured in Chemical and Engineering News, Aug 18th 08, press,
¡§Crowded Shapes¡¨.
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This paper
was featured in Research Highlights in Nature (vol 454, p21, 2008), ¡§Mob Rule¡¨.
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This paper was featured in Research
Highlights of 2008 in Nature again.
17. N. Kanna, J. Subhlok, E. Gabriel, M.
S. Cheung, D. Anderson, ¡§Redundancy tolerant communication on volatile
nodes¡¨, technical reports,UH-CS-08-17 (2008).
18. D. Homouz, L. Stagg, P. Wittung-Stafshede, M. S. Cheung, ¡§Macromolecular crowding
modulates folding mechanism of £\/£] protein apoflavodoxin¡¨,
Biophys. J., 96,
671-680 (2009).
19. A. Samiotakis, P. Wittung-Stafshede,
M. S. Cheung, ¡§Folding, stability and shape of proteins in crowded environments: Experimental and
computational approaches¡¨, Int. J. Mol. Sci. 10,
572-588 (2009).
20. A. Kudlay, M. S. Cheung, D. Thirumalai, ¡§Crowding effects on the structural transitions in a flexible helical homopolymer¡¨, Phys. Rev. Letts. 102, 118101 (2009).
21.
D. Homouz, H. Sanabria, M.
N. Waxham, M. S. Cheung, ¡§Modulation of calmodulin plasticity by the effect of macromolecular
crowding¡¨, J. Mol. Biol. 391,
933-943 (2009).
22.
D. Homouz, B. Hoffman, M. S. Cheung, ¡§Hydrophobic interactions of hexane in nanosized
water droplets¡¨, J. Phys. Chem. B, 113,
12337-12342 (2009).
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Byron
Hoffman was an undergraduate from the Department of Physics, UH.
23. L. Stagg, A. Samiotakis, D. Homouz, M. S. Cheung, P. Wittung-Stafshede, ¡§Residue specific analysis of frustration in folding landscape of repeat beta/alpha protein apoflavodoxin¡¨, accepted to JMB (2009).
24. Q. Wang, G.
Hong, G. R. Johnson, R. Pachter, M. S. Cheung, ¡§ Molecular mechanisms of peptide translocation across micelles: A case study of
cell-penetrating peptide and antimicrobial peptide", submitted (2009)