Publications (co-)authored by Dongping Zhong with students in the Biophysics program

[1] 

Ruiqi Wu, Xiankun Li, Lijuan Wang, and Dongping Zhong
"Ultrafast Dynamics and Catalytic Mechanism of Fatty Acid Photodecarboxylase."
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 61, e202209180 (2022).

[2] 

Patrick Houston, Nicolas Macro, Minhee Kang, Long Chen, Jin Yang, Lijuan Wang, Zhengrong Wu, and Dongping Zhong
"Ultrafast Dynamics of Water-Protein Coupled Motions around the Surface of Eye Crystallin."
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142, 3997-4007 (2020).

[3] 

Meng Zhang, Lijuan Wang, and Dongping Zhong
"Photolyase: Dynamics and electron-transfer mechanisms of DNA repair."
Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 632, 158-174 (2017).

[4] 

Meng Zhang, Lijuan Wang, and Dongping Zhong
"Photolyase: Dynamics and Mechanisms of Repair of Sun-Induced DNA Damage."
Photochem. Photobiol. 93, 78-92 (2017).

[5] 

Meng Zhang, Lijuan Wang, Shi Shu, Aziz Sancar, and Dongping Zhong
"Bifurcating electron-transfer pathways in DNA photolyases determine the repair quantum yield."
Science 354, 209-213 (2016).

[6] 

Jie Gao, Xu Wang, Meng Zhang, Mingdi Bian, Weixian Deng, Zecheng Zuo, Zhenming Yang, Dongping Zhong, and Chentao Lin
"Trp triad-dependent rapid photoreduction is not required for the function of Arabidopsis CRY1."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112, 9135-40 (2015).

[7] 

Zheyun Liu, Meng Zhang, Xunmin Guo, Chuang Tan, Jiang Li, Lijuan Wang, Aziz Sancar, and Dongping Zhong
"Dynamic determination of the functional state in photolyase and the implication for cryptochrome."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 110, 12972-7 (2013).

[8] 

Ya-Ting Kao, Xunmin Guo, Yi Yang, Zheyun Liu, Ali Hassanali, Qin-Hua Song, Lijuan Wang, and Dongping Zhong
"Ultrafast dynamics of nonequilibrium electron transfer in photoinduced redox cycle: solvent mediation and conformation flexibility."
J Phys Chem B 116, 9130-40 (2012).

[9] 

Ya-Ting Kao, Qin-Hua Song, Chaitanya Saxena, Lijuan Wang, and Dongping Zhong
"Dynamics and mechanism of DNA repair in a biomimetic system: flavin-thymine dimer adduct."
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 1501-3 (2012).

[10] 

Chih-Wei Chang, Lijun Guo, Ya-Ting Kao, Jiang Li, Chuang Tan, Tanping Li, Chaitanya Saxena, Zheyun Liu, Lijuan Wang, Aziz Sancar, and Dongping Zhong
"Ultrafast solvation dynamics at binding and active sites of photolyases."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107, 2914-9 (2010).

[11] 

Ya-Ting Kao, Chaitanya Saxena, Ting-Fang He, Lijun Guo, Lijuan Wang, Aziz Sancar, and Dongping Zhong
"Ultrafast dynamics of flavins in five redox states."
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 13132-9 (2008).

[12] 

Luyuan Zhang, Lijuan Wang, Ya-Ting Kao, Weihong Qiu, Yi Yang, Oghaghare Okobiah, and Dongping Zhong
"Mapping hydration dynamics around a protein surface."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104, 18461-6 (2007).

[13] 

Weihong Qiu, Lijuan Wang, Wenyun Lu, Amanda Boechler, David A R Sanders, and Dongping Zhong
"Dissection of complex protein dynamics in human thioredoxin."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104, 5366-71 (2007).

[14] 

Tanping Li, Ali A Hassanali, Ya-Ting Kao, Dongping Zhong, and Sherwin J Singer
"Hydration dynamics and time scales of coupled water-protein fluctuations."
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 3376-82 (2007).

[15] 

Ya-Ting Kao, Chaitanya Saxena, Lijuan Wang, Aziz Sancar, and Dongping Zhong
"Femtochemistry in enzyme catalysis DNA photolyase."
Cell Biochem. Biophys. 48, 32-44 (2007).

[16] 

Jongjoo Kim, Wenyun Lu, Weihong Qiu, Lijuan Wang, Martin Caffrey, and Dongping Zhong
"Ultrafast hydration dynamics in the lipidic cubic phase Discrete water structures in nanochannels."
The journal of physical chemistry. B 110, 21994-2000 (2006).

[17] 

Luyuan Zhang, Ya-Ting Kao, Weihong Qiu, Lijuan Wang, and Dongping Zhong
"Femtosecond studies of tryptophan fluorescence dynamics in proteins local solvation and electronic quenching."
The journal of physical chemistry. B 110, 18097-103 (2006).

[18] 

Weihong Qiu, Ya-Ting Kao, Luyuan Zhang, Yi Yang, Lijuan Wang, Wesley E Stites, Dongping Zhong, and Ahmed H Zewail
"Protein surface hydration mapped by site-specific mutations."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103, 13979-84 (2006).

[19] 

Ali A Hassanali, Tanping Li, Dongping Zhong, and Sherwin J Singer
"A molecular dynamics study of Lys-Trp-Lys: structure and dynamics in solution following photoexcitation."
The journal of physical chemistry. B 110, 10497-508 (2006).

[20] 

Weihong Qiu, Luyuan Zhang, Oghaghare Okobiah, Yi Yang, Lijuan Wang, Dongping Zhong, and Ahmed H Zewail
"Ultrafast solvation dynamics of human serum albumin correlations with conformational transitions and site-selected recognition."
The journal of physical chemistry. B 110, 10540-9 (2006).

[21] 

Ya-Ting Kao, Chaitanya Saxena, Lijuan Wang, Aziz Sancar, and Dongping Zhong
"Direct observation of thymine dimer repair in DNA by photolyase."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102, 16128-32 (2005).

[22] 

Weihong Qiu, Luyuan Zhang, Ya-Ting Kao, Wenyun Lu, Tanping Li, Jongjoo Kim, Gregory M Sollenberger, Lijuan Wang, and Dongping Zhong
"Ultrafast hydration dynamics in melittin folding and aggregation: helix formation and tetramer self-assembly."
The journal of physical chemistry. B 109, 16901-10 (2005).

[23] 

Chaitanya Saxena, Haiyu Wang, I Halil Kavakli, Aziz Sancar, and Dongping Zhong
"Ultrafast dynamics of resonance energy transfer in cryptochrome."
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 7984-5 (2005).

[24] 

Haiyu Wang, Chaitanya Saxena, Donghui Quan, Aziz Sancar, and Dongping Zhong
"Femtosecond dynamics of flavin cofactor in DNA photolyase radical reduction, local solvation, and charge recombination."
The journal of physical chemistry. B 109, 1329-33 (2005).