Klaus Schulten

157.0k total citations · 22 hit papers
532 papers, 120.6k citations indexed

About

Klaus Schulten is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Klaus Schulten has authored 532 papers receiving a total of 120.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 332 papers in Molecular Biology, 173 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 83 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Klaus Schulten's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (109 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (104 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (78 papers). Klaus Schulten is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (109 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (104 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (78 papers). Klaus Schulten collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Klaus Schulten's co-authors include William Humphrey, Andrew Dalke, Emad Tajkhorshid, J. C. Phillips, Robert D. Skeel, Laxmikant V. Kalé, James C. Gumbart, Elizabeth Villa, Christophe Chipot and Rosemary Braun and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Klaus Schulten

530 papers receiving 118.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

1996 51.9k citations Klaus Schulten et al. profile →
Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD

2005 13.9k citations Christophe Chipot, Klaus Schulten et al. profile →
NAMD2: Greater Scalability for Parallel Molecular Dynamics

1999 2.1k citations Klaus Schulten et al. profile →
Molecular biomimetics: nanotechnology through biology

2003 1.3k citations Klaus Schulten et al. profile →
'Neural-gas' network for vector quantization and its application to time-series prediction

1993 897 citations Klaus Schulten et al. profile →
A Model for Photoreceptor-Based Magnetoreception in Birds

2000 849 citations Klaus Schulten et al. Biophysical Journal profile →
The crystal structure of the light-harvesting complex II (B800–850) from Rhodospirillum molischianum

1996 840 citations Klaus Schulten et al. Structure profile →
Steered molecular dynamics and mechanical functions of proteins

2001 803 citations Barry Isralewitz, Mu Gao et al. profile →
Control of the Selectivity of the Aquaporin Water Channel Family by Global Orientational Tuning

2002 743 citations Klaus Schulten et al. Science profile →
Calculating potentials of mean force from steered molecular dynamics simulations

2004 723 citations Klaus Schulten et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
Flexible Fitting of Atomic Structures into Electron Microscopy Maps Using Molecular Dynamics

2008 695 citations Klaus Schulten et al. Structure profile →
Mechanical unfolding intermediates in titin modules

1999 655 citations Klaus Schulten et al. profile →
Free energy calculation from steered molecular dynamics simulations using Jarzynski’s equality

2003 641 citations Klaus Schulten et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
Molecular dynamics study of unbinding of the avidin-biotin complex

1997 637 citations Klaus Schulten et al. Biophysical Journal profile →
First passage time approach to diffusion controlled reactions

1980 635 citations Klaus Schulten et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
Mature HIV-1 capsid structure by cryo-electron microscopy and all-atom molecular dynamics

2013 630 citations Juan R. Perilla, Klaus Schulten et al. profile →
Unfolding of Titin Immunoglobulin Domains by Steered Molecular Dynamics Simulation

1998 569 citations Barry Isralewitz, Viola Vogel et al. Biophysical Journal profile →
Imaging α-Hemolysin with Molecular Dynamics: Ionic Conductance, Osmotic Permeability, and the Electrostatic Potential Map

2005 562 citations Klaus Schulten et al. Biophysical Journal profile →
Accelerating molecular modeling applications with graphics processors

2007 540 citations Klaus Schulten et al. profile →
Enhanced sampling techniques in molecular dynamics simulations of biological systems

2014 523 citations Rafael C. Bernardi, Klaus Schulten et al. profile →
Electronic excitations in finite and infinite polyenes

1987 460 citations Klaus Schulten et al. profile →
On the origin of a low-lying forbidden transition in polyenes and related molecules

1972 419 citations Klaus Schulten et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Theoretical Description of the Primary Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reaction in the Cytochrome bc₁ Complex 2021 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·(unknown), Alexander V. Soudackov, Zaida Luthey‐Schulten, Sharon Hammes‐Schiffer, Klaus Schulten, Ilia A. Solov’yov	26
2	In Situ Conformational Changes of the Escherichia coli Serine Chemoreceptor in Different Signaling States 2019 ·mBio ·Wen Yang, C. Keith Cassidy, Peter Ames, Christoph A. Diebolder, Klaus Schulten, Zaida Luthey‐Schulten, John S. Parkinson, Ariane Briegel	24
3	Molecular mechanism of extreme mechanostability in a pathogen adhesin 2018 ·Science ·Lukas F. Milles, Klaus Schulten, Hermann E. Gaub, Rafael C. Bernardi	164
4	Lateral Segregation of Photosystem I in Cyanobacterial Thylakoids 2017 ·The Plant Cell ·Craig MacGregor-Chatwin, Melih Şener, Samuel F. H. Barnett, Andrew Hitchcock, Meghan C. Barnhart-Dailey, Karim Maghlaoui, James Barber, Jerilyn A. Timlin, Klaus Schulten, C. Neil Hunter	54
5	CryoEM structure of MxB reveals a novel oligomerization interface critical for HIV restriction 2017 ·Science Advances ·Frances Joan D. Alvarez, Shaoda He, Juan R. Perilla, Sooin Jang, Klaus Schulten, Alan Engelman, Sjors H. W. Scheres, Peijun Zhang	49
6	Detection of methylation on dsDNA using nanopores in a MoS₂ membrane 2017 ·Nanoscale ·Jiwook Shim, Shouvik Banerjee, Hu Qiu, Kirby K. H. Smithe, David Estrada, (unknown), Eric Pop, Klaus Schulten, Rashid Bashir	36
7	Conserved methionine dictates substrate preference in Nramp-family divalent metal transporters 2016 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Aaron T. Bozzi, (unknown), Wilhelm A. Weihofen, (unknown), Abhishek Singharoy, Christophe Chipot, Klaus Schulten, Rachelle Gaudet	67
8	Chemomechanical Coupling in Hexameric Protein–Protein Interfaces Harnesses Energy within V-Type ATPases 2016 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Abhishek Singharoy, Christophe Chipot, Mahmoud Moradi, Klaus Schulten	42
9	Nascent peptide assists the ribosome in recognizing chemically distinct small molecules 2016 ·Nature Chemical Biology ·Pulkit Gupta, Bo Liu, Dorota Klepacki, (unknown), Klaus Schulten, Alexander S. Mankin, Nora Vázquez‐Laslop	39
10	The ribosome can discriminate the chirality of amino acids within its peptidyl-transferase center 2015 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Michael T. Englander, (unknown), (unknown), Бо Лю, Philip R. Effraim, Jiangning Wang, Klaus Schulten, Thomas S. Leyh, Ruben L. Gonzalez, Virginia W. Cornish	65
11	Transient β -hairpin formation in α -synuclein monomer revealed by coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation 2015 ·The Journal of Chemical Physics ·Hang Yu, Wei Han, Wen Ma, Klaus Schulten	80
12	CheY's acetylation sites responsible for generating clockwise flagellar rotation in E scherichia coli 2014 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Milana Fraiberg, (unknown), C. Keith Cassidy, Alexandra Gabashvili, Klaus Schulten, Yishai Levin, Michael Eisenbach	28
13	Atomic Model of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus by Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Crystallography 2013 ·Biophysical Journal ·Fei Sun, Xue Wang, (unknown), Jiasen Liu, (unknown), Yanxin Liu, Yujia Zhai, Jun Ma, Kai Zhang, Timothy S. Baker, Klaus Schulten, Zheng Dong, Hai Pang	2
14	DNA target sequence identification mechanism for dimer-active protein complexes 2012 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Markita P. Landry, Xueqing Zou, Lei Wang, Wai Mun Huang, Klaus Schulten, Yann R. Chemla	7
15	Structural Insights into How the MIDAS Ion Stabilizes Integrin Binding to an RGD Peptide under Force 2004 ·Structure ·David W. Craig, Mu Gao, Klaus Schulten, Viola Vogel	74
16	The role of intersection topography in bond selectivity of cis-trans photoisomerization 2002 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·M. Ben-Nun, F. Molnár, Klaus Schulten, Todd J. Martı́nez	134
17	Steered molecular dynamics investigations of protein function 2001 ·Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling ·Barry Isralewitz, Jérôme Baudry, Justin Gullingsrud, Dorina Kosztin, Klaus Schulten	291
18	Neural networks (2nd ed.): an introduction 1995 ·Springer eBooks ·Berndt Müller, Joachim Reinhardt, Michael Strickland, Eytan Domany, (unknown), Klaus Schulten	1
19	Morphogenesis of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus: How Singularities Affect Global Structure 1994 ·Neural Information Processing Systems ·(unknown), Klaus Schulten, Joseph G. Malpeli	4
20	Theory of paramagnetic contrast agents in liposome systems 1992 ·Magnetic Resonance in Medicine ·Daniel Barsky, Benno Pütz, Klaus Schulten, Richard L. Magin	27

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