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Aaron Dinner

University of Chicago
Verified email at uchicago.edu
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CHARMM: the biomolecular simulation program

…, A Caflisch, L Caves, Q Cui, AR Dinner… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
CHARMM (Chemistry at HARvard Molecular Mechanics) is a highly versatile and widely
used molecular simulation program. It has been developed over the last three decades with a …

Understanding protein folding via free-energy surfaces from theory and experiment

AR Dinner, A Šali, LJ Smith, CM Dobson… - Trends in biochemical …, 2000 - cell.com
The ability of protein molecules to fold into their highly structured functional states is one of
the most remarkable evolutionary achievements of biology. In recent years, our …

Machine learning force fields and coarse-grained variables in molecular dynamics: application to materials and biological systems

…, M Ceriotti, JD Chodera, AR Dinner… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Machine learning encompasses tools and algorithms that are now becoming popular in
almost all scientific and technological fields. This is true for molecular dynamics as well, where …

Automatic method for identifying reaction coordinates in complex systems

A Ma, AR Dinner - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2005 - ACS Publications
To interpret simulations of a complex system to determine the physical mechanism of a
dynamical process, it is necessary to identify the small number of coordinates that distinguish the …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of diurnal variation of gut microbes and high-fat feeding on host circadian clock function and metabolism

…, E Zale, Y Wang, Y Huang, B Theriault, AR Dinner… - Cell host & …, 2015 - cell.com
Circadian clocks and metabolism are inextricably intertwined, where central and hepatic
circadian clocks coordinate metabolic events in response to light-dark and sleep-wake cycles. …

[HTML][HTML] Multilineage transcriptional priming and determination of alternate hematopoietic cell fates

…, HJ Lee, R Sciammas, BN Gantner, AR Dinner… - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
Hematopoietic stem cells and their progenitors exhibit multilineage patterns of gene
expression. Molecular mechanisms underlying the generation and refinement of these patterns …

The immunological synapse balances T cell receptor signaling and degradation

…, AR Dinner, C Tu, G Campi, S Raychaudhuri, R Varma… - science, 2003 - science.org
The immunological synapse is a specialized cell-cell junction between T cell and antigen-presenting
cell surfaces. It is characterized by a central cluster of antigen receptors, a ring of …

Understanding β-hairpin formation

AR Dinner, T Lazaridis… - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
The kinetics of formation of protein structural motifs (eg, α-helices and β-hairpins) can provide
information about the early events in protein folding. A recent study has used fluorescence …

[PDF][PDF] Transcriptional regulation of germinal center B and plasma cell fates by dynamical control of IRF4

…, R Rosenthal, R Brink, AS Chong, U Klein, AR Dinner… - Immunity, 2013 - cell.com
The transcription factor IRF4 regulates immunoglobulin class switch recombination and
plasma cell differentiation. Its differing concentrations appear to regulate mutually antagonistic …

Intracellular transport of insulin granules is a subordinated random walk

…, J Jureller, LH Philipson, AR Dinner… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
We quantitatively analyzed particle tracking data on insulin granules expressing fluorescent
fusion proteins in MIN6 cells to better understand the motions contributing to intracellular …