Surl-Hee Ahn

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 449 citations indexed

About

Surl-Hee Ahn is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Surl-Hee Ahn has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 449 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Infectious Diseases and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Surl-Hee Ahn's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (3 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (3 papers). Surl-Hee Ahn is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (3 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (3 papers). Surl-Hee Ahn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and India. Surl-Hee Ahn's co-authors include Rommie E. Amaro, J. Andrew McCammon, Eric Darve, Fiona L. Kearns, Lorenzo Casalino, Jason S. McLellan, Anthony T. Bogetti, F.J. Acosta-Reyes, Ryan S. McCool and Ghoncheh Mashayekhi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Chemical Physics and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Surl-Hee Ahn

22 papers receiving 446 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.

A glycan gate controls opening of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

2021 251 citations Terra Sztain, Surl-Hee Ahn et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Surl-Hee Ahn United States	9	275	170	56	47	43	24	449
Anthony T. Bogetti United States	9	274 1.0×	168 1.0×	50 0.9×	49 1.0×	33 0.8×	18	437
Suvrajit Maji United States	9	254 0.9×	165 1.0×	35 0.6×	47 1.0×	24 0.6×	14	466
Ghoncheh Mashayekhi United States	6	216 0.8×	167 1.0×	37 0.7×	49 1.0×	26 0.6×	10	403
F.J. Acosta-Reyes Spain	10	330 1.2×	172 1.0×	33 0.6×	50 1.1×	42 1.0×	13	542
Maolin Lu United States	14	241 0.9×	219 1.3×	22 0.4×	39 0.8×	46 1.1×	32	569
María J. González‐Moa United States	13	207 0.8×	105 0.6×	54 1.0×	23 0.5×	36 0.8×	27	537
Florian E.C. Blanc Germany	8	332 1.2×	385 2.3×	50 0.9×	93 2.0×	36 0.8×	10	678
Daniel A. Nissley United States	12	345 1.3×	125 0.7×	39 0.7×	52 1.1×	22 0.5×	23	459
Kashyap Maruthi United States	8	302 1.1×	285 1.7×	74 1.3×	45 1.0×	17 0.4×	15	612
E. Seitz Germany	7	163 0.6×	163 1.0×	34 0.6×	46 1.0×	22 0.5×	10	365

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20 of 20 papers shown

Demir, Özlem, Surl-Hee Ahn, Carla Calvó‐Tusell, et al.. (2025). Regulatory Interactions between APOBEC3B N- and C-Terminal Domains. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 65(7). 3593–3604. 1 indexed citations

Han, Yanxiao, Vladimir Yarov‐Yarovoy, Colleen E. Clancy, et al.. (2025). Ligand Dissociation Pathways from Membrane Receptors Revealed by Weighted Ensemble Simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 129(42). 10945–10955.

Ahn, Surl-Hee, et al.. (2024). Targeting Tuberculosis: Novel Scaffolds for Inhibiting Cytochrome bd Oxidase. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 64(13). 5232–5241. 4 indexed citations

Ahn, Surl-Hee, et al.. (2024). Optimization of the resampling method in the weighted ensemble simulation toolkit with parallelization and analysis (WESTPA). The Journal of Chemical Physics. 161(4). 2 indexed citations

Casalino, Lorenzo, Ling Zhou, Anupam Anand Ojha, et al.. (2024). Simulation-driven design of stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike S2 immunogens. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7370–7370. 12 indexed citations

Chen, Zekun, et al.. (2024). Stability and Dynamics of Zeolite-Confined Gold Nanoclusters. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 2 indexed citations

Ojha, Anupam Anand, et al.. (2023). DeepWEST: Deep Learning of Kinetic Models with the Weighted Ensemble Simulation Toolkit for Enhanced Sampling. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 19(4). 1342–1359. 18 indexed citations

Han, Yanxiao, Surl-Hee Ahn, Heike Wulff, et al.. (2023). Elucidating molecular mechanisms of protoxin-II state-specific binding to the human NaV1.7 channel. The Journal of General Physiology. 156(2). 6 indexed citations

Ahn, Surl-Hee, Gary Huber, & J. Andrew McCammon. (2022). Investigating Intrinsically Disordered Proteins With Brownian Dynamics. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 9. 898838–898838. 3 indexed citations

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Ahn, Surl-Hee, et al.. (2021). Data for molecular dynamics simulations of Escherichia coli cytochrome bd oxidase with the Amber force field. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 38. 107401–107401. 4 indexed citations

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Ahn, Surl-Hee, Anupam Anand Ojha, Rommie E. Amaro, & J. Andrew McCammon. (2021). Gaussian-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics with the Weighted Ensemble Method: A Hybrid Method Improves Thermodynamic and Kinetic Sampling. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 17(12). 7938–7951. 22 indexed citations

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Sztain, Terra, Surl-Hee Ahn, Anthony T. Bogetti, et al.. (2021). A glycan gate controls opening of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Nature Chemistry. 13(10). 963–968. 251 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ahn, Surl-Hee, Sanbo Qin, Jason Z. Zhang, et al.. (2021). Characterizing protein kinase A (PKA) subunits as macromolecular regulators of PKA RIα liquid–liquid phase separation. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 154(22). 221101–221101. 7 indexed citations

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Ahn, Surl-Hee, Anthony T. Bogetti, Lorenzo Casalino, et al.. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 Glycosylated Spike Activation Mechanism - Simulations of the Full Unbiased Pathway. Biophysical Journal. 120(3). 276a–276a.

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Ahn, Surl-Hee, et al.. (2020). Ranking of Ligand Binding Kinetics Using a Weighted Ensemble Approach and Comparison with a Multiscale Milestoning Approach. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 60(11). 5340–5352. 22 indexed citations

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Ahn, Surl-Hee, et al.. (2020). Ranking of Ligand Binding Kinetics using a Weighted Ensemble Approach and Comparison with Milestoning. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 305a–305a. 1 indexed citations

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Ahn, Surl-Hee & Jay W. Grate. (2019). Foldamer Architectures of Triazine-Based Sequence-Defined Polymers Investigated with Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Enhanced Sampling Methods. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 123(44). 9364–9377. 12 indexed citations

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Lee, Hee Sun, Surl-Hee Ahn, & Eric Darve. (2019). The multi-dimensional generalized Langevin equation for conformational motion of proteins. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 150(17). 174113–174113. 38 indexed citations

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Ahn, Surl-Hee, Jay W. Grate, & Eric Darve. (2018). Investigating the role of non-covalent interactions in conformation and assembly of triazine-based sequence-defined polymers. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 149(7). 72330–72330. 8 indexed citations

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Ahn, Surl-Hee, Jay W. Grate, & Eric Darve. (2017). Efficiently sampling conformations and pathways using the concurrent adaptive sampling (CAS) algorithm. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 147(7). 74115–74115. 8 indexed citations

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