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Hedieh Torabifard

Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas
Verified email at utdallas.edu
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[HTML][HTML] Computational investigation of O 2 diffusion through an intra-molecular tunnel in AlkB; influence of polarization on O 2 transport

H Torabifard, GA Cisneros - Chemical science, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
E. Coli AlkB catalyzes the direct dealkylation of various alkylated bases in damaged DNA. The
diffusion of molecular oxygen to the active site in AlkB is an essential step for the oxidative …

Mutations along a TET2 active site scaffold stall oxidation at 5-hydroxymethylcytosine

MY Liu, H Torabifard, DJ Crawford, JE DeNizio… - Nature chemical …, 2017 - nature.com
Ten-eleven translocation (TET) enzymes catalyze stepwise oxidation of 5-methylcytosine (mC)
to yield 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (hmC) and the rarer bases 5-formylcytosine (fC) and 5-…

Modeling molecular interactions in water: From pairwise to many-body potential energy functions

…, L Ojamäe, J Lu, Y Xu, H Torabifard… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Almost 50 years have passed from the first computer simulations of water, and a large number
of molecular models have been proposed since then to elucidate the unique behavior of …

M2 amphipathic helices facilitate pH-dependent conformational transition in influenza A virus

H Torabifard, A Panahi… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The matrix-2 (M2) protein from influenza A virus is a tetrameric, integral transmembrane (TM)
protein that plays a vital role in viral replication by proton flux into the virus. The His37 …

[HTML][HTML] Insight into wild-type and T1372E TET2-mediated 5hmC oxidation using ab initio QM/MM calculations

H Torabifard, GA Cisneros - Chemical science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Ten-eleven translocation 2 (TET2) is an Fe/α-ketoglutarate (α-KG) dependent enzyme that
dealkylates 5-methylcytosine (5mC). The reaction mechanism involves a series of three …

[HTML][HTML] Tinker-HP: a massively parallel molecular dynamics package for multiscale simulations of large complex systems with advanced point dipole polarizable force …

…, F Aviat, B Stamm, ZF Jing, M Harger, H Torabifard… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We present Tinker-HP, a massively MPI parallel package dedicated to classical molecular
dynamics (MD) and to multiscale simulations, using advanced polarizable force fields (PFF) …

The impact of inflammation-induced tumor plasticity during myeloid transformation

…, I Dolgalev, EM Leddin, CE Loo, H Torabifard… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Progression from a preleukemic state to transformation, in the presence of TET2 mutations,
is coupled with the emergence of inflammation and a novel population of inflammatory …

Development of AMOEBA force field for 1, 3-dimethylimidazolium based ionic liquids

ON Starovoytov, H Torabifard… - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The development of AMOEBA (a multipolar polarizable force field) for imidazolium based
ionic liquids is presented. Our parametrization method follows the AMOEBA procedure and …

Development of an AMOEBA water model using GEM distributed multipoles

H Torabifard, ON Starovoytov, P Ren… - Theoretical Chemistry …, 2015 - Springer
Distributed multipoles obtained from the Gaussian electrostatic model (GEM) have been
previously shown to be amenable for use in the AMOEBA force field [JCTC(2012) 12, 5072]. …

Computational and experimental characterization of a pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquid for electrolyte applications

H Torabifard, L Reed, MT Berry, JE Hein… - The Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Lithium-ion batteries are widely used in various areas including portable electronics, electric
vehicles, and aerospace applications, due to their high energy density, low selfdischarge, …