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Thomas, A.S., & Elcock, A.H. (2007)

Molecular dynamics simulations of hydrophobic associations in aqueous salt solutions indicate a connection between water hydrogen bonding and the Hofmeister effect.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 14887-14898.

McGuffee, S.R., & Elcock, A.H. (2006)

Atomically detailed simulations of concentrated protein solutions: the effects of salt, pH, point mutations and protein concentration in simulations of 1000-molecule systems.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 12098-12110.

Elcock, A.H. (2006)

Molecular simulations of cotranslational protein folding: fragment stabilities, folding cooperativity, and trapping in the ribosome.

PLoS Comput. Biol. 2, 824-841.

Thomas, A.S., & Elcock, A.H. (2006)

Direct observation of salt effects on molecular interactions through explicit-solvent molecular dynamics simulations: differential effects on electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions and comparisons to Poisson-Boltzmann theory.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 7796-7806.

Frembgen-Kesner, T. & Elcock, A.H. (2006)

Computational sampling of a cryptic drug binding site in a protein receptor: explicit solvent molecular dynamics and inhibitor docking to p38 MAP kinase.

J. Mol. Biol. 359, 202-214.

Rockey, W.M., & Elcock, A.H. (2005)

Rapid computational identification of the targets of protein kinase inhibitors.

J. Med. Chem. 48, 4138-4152.

Thomas, A.S., & Elcock, A.H. (2004)

Molecular simulations suggest protein salt bridges are uniquely suited to life at high temperatures.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 2208-2214.

Yang, H., & Elcock, A.H. (2003)

Association lifetimes of hydrophobic amino acid pairs measured directly from molecular dynamics simulations.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 13968-13969.

Elcock, A.H. (2003)

Atomic-level observation of macromolecular crowding effects: escape of a protein from the GroEL cage.

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 2340-2344.

Rockey, W.M., & Elcock, A.H. (2002)

Progress toward virtual screening for drug side effects.

Proteins 48, 664-671.

Elcock, A.H. (2002)

Atomistic simulations of competition between substrates binding to an enzyme.

Biophys. J. 82, 2326-2332.

Elcock, A.H. (2001)

Prediction of functionally important residues based solely on the computed energetics of protein structure.

J. Mol. Biol. 312, 885-896.

Elcock, A.H., Sept, D., & McCammon, J.A. (2001)                           (feature article)

Computer simulation of protein-protein interactions.

J. Phys. Chem. B., 105, 1504-1518.

Elcock, A.H., & McCammon, J.A. (2001)

Identification of protein oligomerization states by analysis of interface conservation.

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 98, 2990-2994.

Elcock, A.H., & McCammon, J.A. (2001)

Calculation of weak protein-protein interactions: the pH-dependence of the second virial coefficient.

Biophys. J. 80, 613-625.

Elcock, A.H. (1999)

Realistic modeling of the denatured states of proteins allows accurate calculations of the pH-dependence of protein stability.

J. Mol. Biol. 294, 1051-1062.

Elcock, A.H., Gabdoulline, R.R., Wade, R.C., & McCammon, J.A. (1999)

Computer simulation of protein-potein association:  Acetylcholinesterase-Fasciculin. 

J. Mol. Biol., 291, 149-162.

Elcock, A.H. (1998)

The stability of salt bridges at high temperatures:  Implications for hyperthermophilic proteins. 

J. Mol. Biol. 284, 489-502.

Elcock, A.H., & McCammon, J.A. (1998)

Electrostatic contributions to the stability of halophilic proteins. 

J. Mol. Biol. 280, 731-748.

Elcock, A.H., Huber, G.A., & McCammon, J.A. (1997)

Electrostatic channeling of substrates between enzyme active sites:  Comparison of simulation and experiment. 

Biochemistry 36, 16049-16058.

Elcock, A.H., & McCammon, J.A. (1997)

A continuum solvation model for studying protein hydration thermodynamics at high temperatures. 

J. Phys. Chem. B. 101, 9624-9634.

Elcock, A.H., & McCammon, J.A. (1996)

Evidence for Electrostatic Channeling in a Fusion Protein of Citrate Synthase and Malate dehydrogenase.

Biochemistry 35, 12652-12658.

Elcock, A.H., Potter, M.J., Matthews, D.A., Knighton, D.R., & McCammon, J.A (1996)

Electrostatic Channeling in the Bifunctional Enzyme Dihydrofolate Reductase-Thymidylate Synthase.

J. Mol. Biol. 262, 370-374.

Elcock, A.H., & McCammon, J.A. (1996)

The Low Dielectric Interior of Proteins is Sufficient to Cause Major Structural Changes in DNA on Association.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 118, 3787-3788.

Elcock, A.H., Rodger, A., & Richards, W.G. (1996)

Theoretical Studies of the Intercalation of 9-hydroxyellipticine in DNA.

Biopolymers, 39, 309-326.

Elcock, A.H., & McCammon, J.A. (1995)

Sequence-dependent Hydration of DNA: Theoretical Results.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 117, 10161-10162.

Elcock, A.H., Lyne, P.D., Mulholland, A.J., Nandra, A., & Richards, W.G. (1995)

A Combined Quantum and Molecular Mechanical Study of DNA Cross-linking by Nitrous Acid.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 117, 4706-4707.

Elcock, A.H., & Richards, W.G. (1993)

Relative Hydration Free Energies of the Nucleic Acid Bases.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 115, 7930-7931.

Other publications

Rockey, W.M., & Elcock, A.H. (2006)                                                (invited review)

Structure selection for protein kinase docking and virtual screening: homology models or crystal structures

Curr. Protein Pept. Sci. 7, 437-457.

Rockey, W.M., & Elcock, A.H. (2006)                                                (invited review)

Rapid computational identification of the targets of protein kinase inhibitors.

Curr. Opin. Drug Discov. Dev. 9, 326-331.

Elcock, A.H. (2004) Molecular simulations of diffusion and association in multi-macromolecular systems in Numerical Computer Methods, Part D, volume 383 of Methods in Enzymology, Brand, L., & Johnson, M.L., Eds. Elsevier, Inc. San Diego, CA.

Elcock, A.H. (2002)                                                                              (invited review)

Modeling supramolecular assemblages.

Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 12, 154-160.

Elcock, A.H., Potter, M.J., & McCammon, J.A. (1997) Application of Poisson Boltzmann solvation forces to macromolecular simulations in “Computer Simulation of Biomolecular Systems”, volume 3, Wilkinson, A.J., et al., Eds., ESCOM Science Publishers, B.V. Leiden, The Netherlands.