Michael Levitt

33.6k total citations · 26 hit papers
214 papers, 26.6k citations indexed

About

Michael Levitt is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Levitt has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 26.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Molecular Biology, 100 papers in Materials Chemistry and 23 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Michael Levitt's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (139 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (93 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (56 papers). Michael Levitt is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (139 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (93 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (56 papers). Michael Levitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and United Kingdom. Michael Levitt's co-authors include Arieh Warshel, Cyrus Chothia, Valerie Daggett, Mark Gerstein, Patrice Koehl, R. Sharon, M. F. Perutz, Jerry Tsai, Peter Stern and Jonathan Greer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Levitt

213 papers receiving 25.5k citations

Hit Papers

Theoretical studies of en... 1969 2026 1988 2007 1976 1976 1989 1976 1975 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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.

  1. Theoretical studies of enzymic reactions: Dielectric, electrostatic and steric stabilization of the carbonium ion in the reaction of lysozyme
    1976 3.5k citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  2. Structural patterns in globular proteins
    1976 1.0k citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  3. Conformations of immunoglobulin hypervariable regions
    1989 971 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  4. A simplified representation of protein conformations for rapid simulation of protein folding
    1976 888 citations Michael Levitt profile →
  5. Computer simulation of protein folding
    1975 779 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  6. Conformation of amino acid side-chains in proteins
    1978 676 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  7. Aromatic rings act as hydrogen bond acceptors
    1988 612 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  8. Protein normal-mode dynamics: Trypsin inhibitor, crambin, ribonuclease and lysozyme
    1985 595 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  9. Structure of nucleosome core particles of chromatin
    1977 576 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  10. Conformational preferences of amino acids in globular proteins
    1978 565 citations Michael Levitt profile →
  11. Calibration and Testing of a Water Model for Simulation of the Molecular Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids in Solution
    1997 486 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  12. Helix to helix packing in proteins
    1981 473 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  13. Automatic identification of secondary structure in globular proteins
    1977 429 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  14. Potential energy function and parameters for simulations of the molecular dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids in solution
    1995 369 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  15. Accurate simulation of protein dynamics in solution.
    1988 363 citations Michael Levitt et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  16. Energy Functions that Discriminate X-ray and Near-native Folds from Well-constructed Decoys
    1996 348 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  17. Refinement of protein conformations using a macromolecular energy minimization procedure
    1969 346 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  18. Detailed Molecular Model for Transfer Ribonucleic Acid
    1969 321 citations Michael Levitt profile →
  19. Refinement of large structures by simultaneous minimization of energy and R factor
    1978 298 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  20. Protein folding by restrained energy minimization and molecular dynamics
    1983 288 citations Michael Levitt profile →
  21. Molecular dynamics of native protein
    1983 287 citations Michael Levitt profile →
  22. Structure of proteins: packing of alpha-helices and pleated sheets.
    1977 267 citations Michael Levitt et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  23. How many base-pairs per turn does DNA have in solution and in chromatin? Some theoretical calculations.
    1978 234 citations Michael Levitt Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  24. Super-resolution biomolecular crystallography with low-resolution data
    2010 227 citations Gunnar F. Schröder, Michael Levitt et al. profile →
  25. Energy refinement of hen egg-white lysozyme
    1974 197 citations Michael Levitt profile →
  26. Extreme conformational flexibility of the furanose ring in DNA and RNA
    1978 176 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael Levitt 21.1k 9.2k 3.7k 3.0k 1.5k 214 26.6k
Kim A. Sharp 15.7k 0.7× 4.3k 0.5× 3.8k 1.0× 2.0k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 150 22.7k
Ken A. Dill 23.8k 1.1× 11.7k 1.3× 6.1k 1.7× 4.6k 1.5× 918 0.6× 368 33.3k
Brian W. Matthews 28.9k 1.4× 11.5k 1.2× 1.7k 0.5× 2.4k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 340 39.3k
Carlos Simmerling 20.9k 1.0× 5.3k 0.6× 2.6k 0.7× 2.4k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 106 28.3k
Robert E. Bruccoleri 13.8k 0.7× 3.8k 0.4× 2.5k 0.7× 1.9k 0.6× 2.4k 1.6× 58 18.8k
David J. States 13.9k 0.7× 3.7k 0.4× 2.6k 0.7× 3.0k 1.0× 759 0.5× 75 20.1k
Thomas E. Cheatham 29.0k 1.4× 4.9k 0.5× 3.6k 1.0× 2.5k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 185 39.1k
Huan‐Xiang Zhou 14.3k 0.7× 4.6k 0.5× 2.2k 0.6× 1.8k 0.6× 744 0.5× 407 18.9k
Michael Feig 16.6k 0.8× 4.4k 0.5× 2.9k 0.8× 2.0k 0.7× 692 0.5× 176 21.3k
Gregory A. Petsko 19.5k 0.9× 8.1k 0.9× 2.0k 0.5× 2.6k 0.9× 697 0.5× 368 29.2k

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All Works

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Kamath, Ganesh, Igor V. Kurnikov, Е. Н. Воронина, et al.. (2024). Combining Force Fields and Neural Networks for an Accurate Representation of Bonded Interactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 128(4). 807–812. 3 indexed citations
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Ioannidis, John P. A., Francesco Zonta, & Michael Levitt. (2023). Variability in excess deaths across countries with different vulnerability during 2020–2023. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(49). e2309557120–e2309557120. 11 indexed citations
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Ioannidis, John P. A., Francesco Zonta, & Michael Levitt. (2023). Flaws and Uncertainties in Pandemic Global Excess Death Calculations. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Ioannidis, John P. A., Francesco Zonta, & Michael Levitt. (2023). Estimates of COVID‐19 deaths in Mainland China after abandoning zero COVID policy. European Journal of Clinical Investigation. 53(4). e13956–e13956. 42 indexed citations
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Ioannidis, John P. A., Francesco Zonta, & Michael Levitt. (2023). Flaws and uncertainties in pandemic global excess death calculations. European Journal of Clinical Investigation. 53(8). e14008–e14008. 15 indexed citations
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Rodrigues, João, et al.. (2020). Insights on cross-species transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from structural modeling. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(12). e1008449–e1008449. 38 indexed citations
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Ufimtsev, Ivan S. & Michael Levitt. (2019). Unsupervised determination of protein crystal structures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(22). 10813–10818. 3 indexed citations
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Kurnikov, Igor V., Ganesh Kamath, Igor Leontyev, et al.. (2018). On the importance of accounting for nuclear quantum effects in ab initio calibrated force fields in biological simulations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(36). 8878–8882. 31 indexed citations
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Rodrigues, João, Boris Arshava, Łukasz Jaremko, et al.. (2018). The solution structure of monomeric CCL5 in complex with a doubly sulfated N‐terminal segment of CCR5. FEBS Journal. 285(11). 1988–2003. 33 indexed citations
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Ben-Aharon, Ziv, Michael Levitt, & Nir Kalisman. (2018). Automatic Inference of Sequence from Low-Resolution Crystallographic Data. Structure. 26(11). 1546–1554.e2. 1 indexed citations
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Silva, Daniel‐Adriano, Dahlia R. Weiss, Lin‐Tai Da, et al.. (2014). Millisecond dynamics of RNA polymerase II translocation at atomic resolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(21). 7665–7670. 125 indexed citations
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Kalisman, Nir, Gunnar F. Schröder, & Michael Levitt. (2013). The Crystal Structures of the Eukaryotic Chaperonin CCT Reveal Its Functional Partitioning. Structure. 21(4). 540–549. 49 indexed citations
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Brünger, Axel T., Paul D. Adams, Petra Fromme, et al.. (2012). Improving the Accuracy of Macromolecular Structure Refinement at 7 Å Resolution. Structure. 20(6). 957–966. 33 indexed citations
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Bernauer, Julie, Xuhui Huang, Adelene Y. L. Sim, & Michael Levitt. (2011). Fully differentiable coarse-grained and all-atom knowledge-based potentials for RNA structure evaluation. RNA. 17(6). 1066–1075. 70 indexed citations
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Weiss, Dahlia R., et al.. (2011). Optimized Torsion-Angle Normal Modes Reproduce Conformational Changes More Accurately Than Cartesian Modes. Biophysical Journal. 101(12). 2966–2969. 31 indexed citations
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Zhang, Junjie, Boxue Ma, Frank DiMaio, et al.. (2011). Cryo-EM Structure of a Group II Chaperonin in the Prehydrolysis ATP-Bound State Leading to Lid Closure. Structure. 19(5). 633–639. 43 indexed citations
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Huang, Xuhui, Dong Wang, Dahlia R. Weiss, et al.. (2010). RNA polymerase II trigger loop residues stabilize and position the incoming nucleotide triphosphate in transcription. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(36). 15745–15750. 60 indexed citations
18.
Mináry, Péter & Michael Levitt. (2010). Conformational Optimization with Natural Degrees of Freedom: A Novel Stochastic Chain Closure Algorithm. Journal of Computational Biology. 17(8). 993–1010. 22 indexed citations
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Wang, Dong, David Bushnell, Xuhui Huang, et al.. (2009). Structural Basis of Transcription: Backtracked RNA Polymerase II at 3.4 Angstrom Resolution. Science. 324(5931). 1203–1206. 203 indexed citations
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Levitt, Michael. (2009). Nature of the protein universe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(27). 11079–11084. 228 indexed citations

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