Olgun Guvench

12.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
53 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Olgun Guvench is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Olgun Guvench has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Materials Chemistry and 12 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Olgun Guvench's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (31 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (17 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (14 papers). Olgun Guvench is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (31 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (17 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (14 papers). Olgun Guvench collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and China. Olgun Guvench's co-authors include Alexander D. MacKerell, Elizabeth Hatcher, Kenno Vanommeslaeghe, Pedro E. M. Lopes, Eva Darian, Subhas C. Kundu, Igor Vorobyov, Shan Zhong, J. Shim and Chitrangada Acharya and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Molecular Biology and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

In The Last Decade

Olgun Guvench

52 papers receiving 9.3k citations

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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.

CHARMM general force field: A force field for drug‐like molecules compatible with the CHARMM all‐atom additive biological force fields

2009 5.6k citations Kenno Vanommeslaeghe, Elizabeth Hatcher et al. Journal of Computational Chemistry profile →
CHARMM Additive All-Atom Force Field for Glycosidic Linkages between Hexopyranoses

2009 558 citations Olgun Guvench, Elizabeth Hatcher et al. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation profile →
CHARMM Additive All-Atom Force Field for Carbohydrate Derivatives and Its Utility in Polysaccharide and Carbohydrate–Protein Modeling

2011 532 citations Olgun Guvench, Sairam S. Mallajosyula et al. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Olgun Guvench United States	28	5.7k	1.6k	1.4k	1.2k	1.1k	53	9.4k
Kenno Vanommeslaeghe United States	25	6.6k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	38	11.2k
Elizabeth Hatcher United States	17	4.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	822 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	20	8.0k
Per Larsson Sweden	21	4.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	973 0.7×	821 0.7×	974 0.8×	42	8.6k
Pedro E. M. Lopes United States	23	7.2k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.9×	40	11.6k
Jing Huang China	32	7.2k 1.3×	1.8k 1.1×	761 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	135	11.0k
Ross C. Walker United States	39	9.7k 1.7×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	1.7k 1.5×	77	13.6k
Rudi van Drunen Netherlands	4	4.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	999 0.7×	615 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	5	8.4k
Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes Portugal	52	6.3k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	2.1k 1.5×	1.6k 1.3×	745 0.7×	376	11.8k
Igor Vorobyov United States	30	8.4k 1.5×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	977 0.8×	2.8k 2.4×	67	12.7k
Jason Swails United States	15	7.2k 1.3×	1.5k 0.9×	989 0.7×	1.6k 1.3×	784 0.7×	19	10.3k

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Guvench, Olgun. (2026). Iduronate Ring Puckering Effects on Preferred Glycosidic Linkage Conformations in Heparin/Heparan Sulfate and Dermatan Sulfate Disaccharides. Molecules. 31(3). 504–504.

Guvench, Olgun, et al.. (2024). Refinement of the Drude Polarizable Force Field for Hexose Monosaccharides: Capturing Ring Conformational Dynamics with Enhanced Accuracy. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20(20). 9161–9177. 3 indexed citations

Orr, Asuka A., et al.. (2023). Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation-Biologics Approach for Structure-Based Protein Charge Prediction. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 20(5). 2600–2611. 2 indexed citations

Guvench, Olgun, et al.. (2021). Sulfation and Calcium Favor Compact Conformations of Chondroitin in Aqueous Solutions. ACS Omega. 6(20). 13204–13217. 15 indexed citations

Guvench, Olgun, et al.. (2017). Rigidity and flexibility in the tetrasaccharide linker of proteoglycans from atomic‐resolution molecular simulation. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 38(16). 1438–1446. 11 indexed citations

Prudovsky, Igor, Doreen Kacer, Julie Davis, et al.. (2016). Folding of Fibroblast Growth Factor 1 Is Critical for Its Nonclassical Release. Biochemistry. 55(7). 1159–1167. 8 indexed citations

Guvench, Olgun. (2015). Revealing the Mechanisms of Protein Disorder and N-Glycosylation in CD44-Hyaluronan Binding Using Molecular Simulation. Frontiers in Immunology. 6. 305–305. 27 indexed citations

Raman, E. Prabhu, et al.. (2015). Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) Simulations for Fragment-Based Drug Design. Methods in molecular biology. 1289. 75–87. 42 indexed citations

Lopes, Pedro E. M., Olgun Guvench, & Alexander D. MacKerell. (2014). Current Status of Protein Force Fields for Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Methods in molecular biology. 1215. 47–71. 140 indexed citations

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Yu, Bing, Wei Liu, Wen-Mei Yu, et al.. (2013). Targeting Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase SHP2 for the Treatment of PTPN11 -Associated Malignancies. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 12(9). 1738–1748. 40 indexed citations

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Favreau, Amanda J., et al.. (2013). CD44 Receptor Unfolding Enhances Binding by Freeing Basic Amino Acids to Contact Carbohydrate Ligand. Biophysical Journal. 105(5). 1217–1226. 19 indexed citations

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Ward, Andrew B., Olgun Guvench, & Ronald D. Hills. (2012). Coarse grain lipid–protein molecular interactions and diffusion with MsbA flippase. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 80(9). 2178–2190. 23 indexed citations

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Hills, Ronald D., et al.. (2012). Peptide Backbone Sampling Convergence with the Adaptive Biasing Force Algorithm. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 117(2). 518–526. 22 indexed citations

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Velvadapu, Venkata, Tapas Paul, Dorota Klepacki, et al.. (2010). Desmethyl Macrolides: Synthesis and Evaluation of 4,8,10-Tridesmethyl Telithromycin. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 2(1). 68–72. 23 indexed citations

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Vanommeslaeghe, Kenno, Elizabeth Hatcher, Chitrangada Acharya, et al.. (2009). CHARMM general force field: A force field for drug‐like molecules compatible with the CHARMM all‐atom additive biological force fields. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 31(4). 671–690. 5554 indexed citations breakdown →

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Guvench, Olgun & Alexander D. MacKerell. (2009). Computational evaluation of protein–small molecule binding. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 19(1). 56–61. 69 indexed citations

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Guvench, Olgun & Alexander D. MacKerell. (2008). Comparison of Protein Force Fields for Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Methods in molecular biology. 443. 63–88. 175 indexed citations

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Guvench, Olgun, Shannon N. Greene, Ganesh Kamath, et al.. (2008). Additive empirical force field for hexopyranose monosaccharides. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 29(15). 2543–2564. 477 indexed citations

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Guvench, Olgun & Alexander D. MacKerell. (2008). Automated conformational energy fitting for force-field development. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 14(8). 667–679. 98 indexed citations

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Guvench, Olgun, et al.. (2001). Application of the frozen atom approximation to the GB/SA continuum model for solvation free energy. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 23(2). 214–221. 28 indexed citations

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