John E. Straub

26.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
200 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

John E. Straub is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, John E. Straub has authored 200 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Molecular Biology, 62 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 45 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in John E. Straub's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (95 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (58 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (34 papers). John E. Straub is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (95 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (58 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (34 papers). John E. Straub collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Germany. John E. Straub's co-authors include D. Thirumalai, B. J. Berne, Michal Borkovec, Govardhan Reddy, Ioan Andricioaei, Jaegil Kim, Francesca Massi, Bogdan Tarus, Diane E. Sagnella and Hiroshi Fujisaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

John E. Straub

198 papers receiving 8.5k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John E. Straub United States	51	5.3k	2.8k	2.1k	1.7k	1.0k	200	8.7k
Ilpo Vattulainen Finland	72	11.7k 2.2×	3.3k 1.2×	790 0.4×	1.8k 1.1×	328 0.3×	309	16.4k
Jack A. Tuszyński Canada	53	5.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	790 0.5×	958 0.9×	596	12.1k
Angel E. Garcı́a United States	64	10.8k 2.0×	4.0k 1.4×	1.1k 0.5×	4.4k 2.5×	331 0.3×	184	14.4k
Yuji Sugita Japan	52	9.3k 1.8×	2.1k 0.8×	917 0.4×	2.9k 1.7×	259 0.2×	269	13.0k
Amedeo Caflisch Switzerland	71	11.0k 2.1×	1.1k 0.4×	2.0k 1.0×	2.6k 1.5×	409 0.4×	288	14.8k
John F. Nagle United States	73	15.2k 2.9×	6.6k 2.4×	749 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	499 0.5×	202	19.1k
Joan–Emma Shea United States	64	7.3k 1.4×	1.0k 0.4×	3.7k 1.8×	2.5k 1.5×	136 0.1×	182	10.5k
D. Thirumalai United States	85	17.0k 3.2×	5.4k 1.9×	1.7k 0.8×	9.0k 5.2×	890 0.9×	380	24.1k
Huan‐Xiang Zhou United States	69	14.3k 2.7×	2.2k 0.8×	463 0.2×	4.6k 2.7×	503 0.5×	407	18.9k
Robert B. Best United States	68	15.1k 2.9×	3.6k 1.3×	661 0.3×	5.6k 3.2×	289 0.3×	185	18.6k

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Mugnai, Mauro L., Debayan Chakraborty, Hung T. Nguyen, et al.. (2025). Sizes, conformational fluctuations, and SAXS profiles for intrinsically disordered proteins. Protein Science. 34(4). e70067–e70067. 2 indexed citations

Pantelopulos, George A., et al.. (2024). Cholesterol and Lipid Rafts in the Biogenesis of Amyloid-β Protein and Alzheimer's Disease. Annual Review of Biophysics. 53(1). 455–486. 11 indexed citations

Allen, Karen N., et al.. (2023). Synergistic computational and experimental studies of a phosphoglycosyl transferase membrane/ligand ensemble. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(10). 105194–105194. 8 indexed citations

Xu, Lin, et al.. (2023). Characterizing the transmembrane domains of ADAM10 and BACE1 and the impact of membrane composition. Biophysical Journal. 122(19). 3999–4010. 5 indexed citations

Straub, John E., et al.. (2022). On Computing Equilibrium Binding Constants for Protein–Protein Association in Membranes. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 18(6). 3961–3971. 13 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Debayan, John E. Straub, & D. Thirumalai. (2020). Differences in the free energies between the excited states of A β 40 and A β 42 monomers encode their aggregation propensities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(33). 19926–19937. 55 indexed citations

Hutchison, J.M.S., Kuo‐Chih Shih, Holger A. Scheidt, et al.. (2020). Bicelles Rich in both Sphingolipids and Cholesterol and Their Use in Studies of Membrane Proteins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(29). 12715–12729. 31 indexed citations

Straub, John E., et al.. (2016). Chemical Characterization and Identification of Organosilicon Contaminants in ISS Potable Water. ThinkTech (Texas Tech University). 1 indexed citations

Cho, Woo Jong, Jaegil Kim, Joonho Lee, et al.. (2014). Limit of Metastability for Liquid and Vapor Phases of Water. Physical Review Letters. 112(15). 157802–157802. 18 indexed citations

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Li, Mai Suan, et al.. (2010). Factors Governing Fibrillogenesis of Polypeptide Chains Revealed by Lattice Models. Physical Review Letters. 105(21). 218101–218101. 104 indexed citations

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Reddy, Govardhan, John E. Straub, & D. Thirumalai. (2009). Dynamics of locking of peptides onto growing amyloid fibrils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(29). 11948–11953. 114 indexed citations

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Leu, Bogdan M., Yong Zhang, Lintao Bu, et al.. (2008). Resilience of the Iron Environment in Heme Proteins. Biophysical Journal. 95(12). 5874–5889. 29 indexed citations

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Buchete, Nicolae‐Viorel, John E. Straub, & D. Thirumalai. (2007). Dissecting contact potentials for proteins: Relative contributions of individual amino acids. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 70(1). 119–130. 14 indexed citations

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Massi, Francesca, Dmitri K. Klimov, D. Thirumalai, & John E. Straub. (2002). Charge states rather than propensity for β‐structure determine enhanced fibrillogenesis in wild‐type Alzheimer's β‐amyloid peptide compared to E22Q Dutch mutant. Protein Science. 11(7). 1639–1647. 65 indexed citations

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Massi, Francesca, Jeff Peng, Jonathan P. Lee, & John E. Straub. (2001). Simulation Study of the Structure and Dynamics of the Alzheimer’s Amyloid Peptide Congener in Solution. Biophysical Journal. 80(1). 31–44. 110 indexed citations

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Whitfield, Troy W. & John E. Straub. (2001). Enhanced sampling in numerical path integration: An approximation for the quantum statistical density matrix based on the nonextensive thermostatistics. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 64(6). 66115–66115. 1 indexed citations

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Massi, Francesca & John E. Straub. (2001). Probing the Origins of Increased Activity of the E22Q “Dutch” Mutant Alzheimer's β-Amyloid Peptide. Biophysical Journal. 81(2). 697–709. 38 indexed citations

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Andricioaei, Ioan & John E. Straub. (1998). Global optimization using bad derivatives: Derivative-free method for molecular energy minimization. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 19(13). 1445–1455. 12 indexed citations

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Straub, John E. & Martin Karplus. (1990). The interpretation of site-directed mutagenesis experiments by linear free energy relations. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 3(8). 673–675. 6 indexed citations

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Straub, John E., et al.. (1980). Water and steam : their properties and current industrial applications : proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Properties of Steam held at the Technische Universität München, F.R.G., 10-14 September 1979. Pergamon Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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