Chenyu Wei
Researcher
Branch: Exobiology Branch (STX)
Select Publications
1. Wei C and Pohorille A. Permeation of Membrane by Ribose and Its Diastereomers, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131 10237 (2009).
2. Wei C and Pohorille A. Permeation of Nucleosides through Lipid Bilayers, J. Phys. Chem. B, 115 3681 (2011)
3. Wilson MA, Wei C, Bjelkmar P, Wallace BA, Pohorille A. Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Antiamoebin Ion Channel: Linking Structure and Conductance. Biophys J. 100 2394 (2011).
4. Wei C and Pohorille A. Permeation of Aldopentoses and Nucleosides through Fatty Acid and Phospholipid Membranes: Implications to the Origins of Life. Astrobiology 13 177 (2013).
5. Wei C and Pohorille A. Activation and Proton Transport Mechanism in Influenza A M2 Channel. Biophys. J. 105, 2036 (2013).
6. Wei C and Pohorille A. Flip-Flop of Oleic Acid in a Phospholipid Membrane: Rate and Mechanism. J. Phys. Chem. B 118, 12919 (2014).
7. Wei C and Pohorille A. M2 Proton Channel: Toward a Model of a Primitive Proton Pump. Orig. Life. Evol. Biosph. 45, 241 (2015).
8. Pohorille A, Wilson, MA, Wei, C. Validity of the electrodiffusion model for calculating conductance of simple ion channels. J. Phys. Chem. B 121, 3607 (2017).
9. Wei C and Pohorille A. Sequence-Dependent Interfacial Adsorption and Permeation of Dipeptides across Phospholipid Membranes. J. Phys. Chem. B 121, 9859 (2017).
10. Plebanek A, Larnerd C, Popović M, Wei C, Pohorille A, Ditzler MA. Big on Change, Small on Innovation: Evolutionary Consequences of RNA Sequence Duplication. J. Mol. Evol. 87, 240 (2019).
11. Popović M, Ellingson AQ, Chu TP, Wei C, Pohorille A, Ditzler MA. In vitro Selections with RNAs of Variable Length Converge on a Robust Catalytic Core. Nucleic Acids Res. 49, 674 (2021).
12. Wei C and Pohorille A. Fast Bilayer-micelle Fusion Mediated by Hydrophobic Dipeptides. Biophys. J. 120, 2330 (2021).
13. Wei C and Pohorille A. Multi-Oligomeric States of Alamethicin Ion Channel: Assemblies and Conductance. Biophys. J. in press (2023).