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Ohio Eminent Scholar Professor

(614) 247-8847 paulaitis@chbmeng.ohio-state.edu

Research Interests
Molecular simulations and modeling of weak protein-protein interactions; the role of hydration in biological organization and self-assembly phenomena; multiscale modeling of biological interactions.

Education
B.S.,Pinceton University, 1968

M.S., Stanford University, 1970

Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1976

Honors

Ohio Eminent Scholar, 2005

Member, Academy of Sciences of Technological Cybernetics of Ukraine, 1994

Presidential Young Investigators Award, 1984

Alexander von Humboldt Fello, 1983  

 

 

Faculty -Michael Paulaitis
Recent Publications
  1. Paliwal, A., D. Asthagiri, D. Abras, A. M. Lenhoff and M. E. Paulaitis, “Light scattering studies of protein solutions: Role of hydration in weak protein-protein interactions,” Biophys. J. submitted (2005).
  2. Asthagiri, D., A. Paliwal, D. Abras, A. M. Lenhoff and M. E. Paulaitis, “A consistent experimental and modeling approach to light scattering studies of protein-protein interactions in solution,” Biophys. J. 88 (2005).
  3. Ashbaugh, H. S., L. R. Pratt, M. E. Paulaitis, J. Clohecy and T. L. Beck, “Deblurred Observation of the Molecular Structure of an Oil-Water Interface,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 2808 (2005).
  4. Paliwal, A., D. Asthagiri, D. P. Bossev and M. E. Paulaitis, “Pressure Denaturation of Staphylococcal Nuclease Studied by Neutron Small-Angle Scattering and Molecular Simulation,” Biophys. J.87, 3479 (2004).
  5. Weathers, E. A., M. E. Paulaitis, T. B. Woolf and J. H. Hoh, “Reduced amino acid alphabet is sufficient to accurately recognize intrinsically disordered protein,” FEBS Letters576, 348 (2004).
  6. Asthagiri, D., L. R. Pratt, M. E. Paulaitis and S. B. Rempe, “Hydration structure and free energy of biomolecularly specific aqueous dications, including Zn + and first-transition-row metals,” J. Am. Chem. Soc.126, 1585 (2004).
  7. Paulaitis, M. E. and L. R. Pratt, “Hydration Theory for Molecular Biophysics,” Adv. in Protein Chemistry62, 283 (2002).
  8. Kumar, S., Xinghua, Y., Trapp, B. D., J. H. Hoh, and M. E. Paulaitis, “Relating interactions between neurofilaments to the structure of axonal neurofilament distributions through polymer brush models,” Biophys. J. 82, 2360 (2002).
  9. Kumar, S., Xinghua, Y., Trapp, B. D., Paulaitis, M. E., and J. H. Hoh, “Analysis and simulation of neurofilament distributions: implications for mechanisms of interfilament spacing,” J. Neurosci. Res. 68, 681 (2002).
  10. Ashbaugh, H. S. and M. E. Paulaitis, "Effect of Solute Size and Solute-Water Attractive Interactions on Hydration Water Structure Around Hydrophobic Solutes,” J. Am. Chem. Soc.123, 10721 (2001).
  11. Hummer, G., Garde, S., García, A. E., Paulaitis, M. E., and L. R. Pratt, “Hydrophobic Effects on a Molecular Scale,” J. Phys. Chem. B 102, 10 469 (1998).
  12. Hummer, G., Garde, S., García, A. E., Paulaitis, M. E., and L. R. Pratt, “The pressure dependence of hydrophobic interactions is consistent with the observed pressure denaturation of proteins,” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.95, 1552 (1998).
 
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