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, Jonathan Greer and Christian Sander 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

5 papers align trajectories

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.

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. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Structural patterns in globular proteins

1976 1.0k citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
Conformations of immunoglobulin hypervariable regions

1989 971 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
A simplified representation of protein conformations for rapid simulation of protein folding

1976 888 citations Michael Levitt Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Computer simulation of protein folding

1975 779 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
Conformation of amino acid side-chains in proteins

1978 676 citations Michael Levitt et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Aromatic rings act as hydrogen bond acceptors

1988 612 citations Michael Levitt et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Protein normal-mode dynamics: Trypsin inhibitor, crambin, ribonuclease and lysozyme

1985 595 citations Michael Levitt et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Structure of nucleosome core particles of chromatin

1977 576 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
Conformational preferences of amino acids in globular proteins

1978 565 citations Michael Levitt profile →
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 →
Helix to helix packing in proteins

1981 473 citations Michael Levitt et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Automatic identification of secondary structure in globular proteins

1977 429 citations Michael Levitt et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
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 →
Accurate simulation of protein dynamics in solution.

1988 363 citations Michael Levitt et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Energy Functions that Discriminate X-ray and Near-native Folds from Well-constructed Decoys

1996 348 citations Michael Levitt et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Refinement of protein conformations using a macromolecular energy minimization procedure

1969 346 citations Michael Levitt et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Detailed Molecular Model for Transfer Ribonucleic Acid

1969 321 citations Michael Levitt profile →
Refinement of large structures by simultaneous minimization of energy and R factor

1978 298 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →
Protein folding by restrained energy minimization and molecular dynamics

1983 288 citations Michael Levitt Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Molecular dynamics of native protein

1983 287 citations Michael Levitt Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
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 →
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 →
Super-resolution biomolecular crystallography with low-resolution data

2010 227 citations Gunnar F. Schröder, Michael Levitt et al. profile →
Energy refinement of hen egg-white lysozyme

1974 197 citations Michael Levitt Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Extreme conformational flexibility of the furanose ring in DNA and RNA

1978 176 citations Michael Levitt et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Combining Force Fields and Neural Networks for an Accurate Representation of Bonded Interactions 2024 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry A ·Ganesh Kamath, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Igor V. Kurnikov, (unknown), Е. Н. Воронина, (unknown), Igor Leontyev, Grzegorz Nawrocki, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Christopher Lock, (unknown), Yi‐Chun Chen, Roger D. Kornberg, Michael Levitt, Boris Fain	3
2	Variability in excess deaths across countries with different vulnerability during 2020–2023 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·John P. A. Ioannidis, Francesco Zonta, Michael Levitt	11
3	Estimates of COVID‐19 deaths in Mainland China after abandoning zero COVID policy 2023 ·European Journal of Clinical Investigation ·John P. A. Ioannidis, Francesco Zonta, Michael Levitt	42
4	Insights on cross-species transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from structural modeling 2020 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·João Rodrigues, Susana Barrera-Vilarmau, João M. C. Teixeira, (unknown), (unknown), Panagiotis L. Kastritis, Michael Levitt	38
5	Unsupervised determination of protein crystal structures 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ivan S. Ufimtsev, Michael Levitt	3
6	On the importance of accounting for nuclear quantum effects in ab initio calibrated force fields in biological simulations 2018 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Igor V. Kurnikov, Ganesh Kamath, (unknown), (unknown), Igor Leontyev, (unknown), Michael Levitt, Roger D. Kornberg, Boris Fain	31
7	Millisecond dynamics of RNA polymerase II translocation at atomic resolution 2014 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Daniel‐Adriano Silva, Dahlia R. Weiss, (unknown), Lin‐Tai Da, Michael Levitt, Dong Wang, Xuhui Huang	125
8	Deformable elastic network refinement for low-resolution macromolecular crystallography 2014 ·Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·Gunnar F. Schröder, Michael Levitt, Axel T. Brünger	25
9	The Crystal Structures of the Eukaryotic Chaperonin CCT Reveal Its Functional Partitioning 2013 ·Structure ·Nir Kalisman, Gunnar F. Schröder, Michael Levitt	49
10	RNA polymerase II trigger loop residues stabilize and position the incoming nucleotide triphosphate in transcription 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Xuhui Huang, Dong Wang, Dahlia R. Weiss, David Bushnell, Roger D. Kornberg, Michael Levitt	60
11	Conformational Optimization with Natural Degrees of Freedom: A Novel Stochastic Chain Closure Algorithm 2010 ·Journal of Computational Biology ·Péter Mináry, Michael Levitt	22
12	Nature of the protein universe 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Michael Levitt	228
13	Structural Basis of Transcription: Backtracked RNA Polymerase II at 3.4 Angstrom Resolution 2009 ·Science ·Dong Wang, David Bushnell, Xuhui Huang, Kenneth D. Westover, Michael Levitt, Roger D. Kornberg	203
14	Protein segment finder: an online search engine for segment motifs in the PDB 2008 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·(unknown), Michael Levitt	22
15	Comprehensive Evaluation of Protein Structure Alignment Methods: Scoring by Geometric Measures 2005 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Rachel Kolodny, Patrice Koehl, Michael Levitt	225
16	Simulating protein evolution in sequence and structure space 2004 ·Current Opinion in Structural Biology ·Yu Xia, Michael Levitt	71
17	A comprehensive analysis of 40 blind protein structure predictions 2002 ·BMC Structural Biology ·Ram Samudrala, Michael Levitt	44
18	The PRESAGE database for structural genomics 1999 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Steven E. Brenner, Derren Barken, Michael Levitt	41
19	Factors affecting the ability of energy functions to discriminate correct from incorrect folds 1997 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·(unknown), Enoch S. Huang, Michael Levitt	137
20	Structural similarity of DNA-binding domains of bacteriophage repressors and the globin core 1993 ·Current Biology ·S. Subbiah, Douglas V. Laurents, Michael Levitt	152

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