Karabencheva-Christova Lab Featured at the American Chemical Society Annual Meeting

A number of graduate students, undergraduate students, and a postdoctoral researcher from Karabencheva-Christova’s group participated in five different presentations at the American Chemical Society annual meeting held Aug. 13-17 in San Francisco, California.

We were excited to participate in the American Chemical Society meeting, held Aug. 13-17 in San Francisco, California. Graduate students, undergraduate students, and a postdoctoral researcher from Karabencheva-Christova’s group participated in the following presentations:

* denotes the presenter

• “Catalytic mechanism of the collagenolysis process of matrix metalloproteinase-1 through QM/MM-metadynamics simulations”
  PAPER ID: 3915819
  AUTHORS: Koteswara Rao Gorantla*, Sodiq O. Waheed, Ann Varghese, Gregg B. Fields, Tatyana Karabencheva-Christova
  DIVISION: Division of Computers in Chemistry
  SESSION: COMP Poster Session
  
• “Key role of conformational dynamics in the catalytic mechanism of collagen hydrolysis by matrix metalloproteinase-1”
  PAPER ID: 3926518
  AUTHORS: Ann Varghese*, Sodiq O. Waheed, Koteswararao Gorantla, Bella DiCastri, Ciara LaRouche, Brendan Kaski, Gregg B. Fields, and Tatyana G. Karabencheva-Christova
  DIVISION: Division of Computers in Chemistry
  SESSION: COMP Poster Session
  
• “Multiscale computational study of human β-aspartyl/asparaginyl hydroxylase: conformational dynamics, catalysis, stereoselectivity and effect of mutations”
  PAPER ID: 3927915
  AUTHORS: Anandhu Krishnan*, Sodiq O. Waheed, Tatyana G. Karabencheva-Christova
  DIVISION: Division of Computers in Chemistry
  SESSION: COMP Poster Session
  
• “Catalytic mechanism of human AlkB homologue 5 (AlkBH5)”
  PAPER ID: 3928164
  AUTHORS: Fathima Hameed Cherilakkudy*, Ann Varghese, Christo Z. Christov, Tatyana G. Karabencheva-Christova
  DIVISION: Division of Inorganic Chemistry
  SESSION: Bioinorganic Chemistry from Cell to Organism Poster Session
  
• “Mechanism of dealkylation of guanine adducts by AlkB enzyme”
  PAPER ID: 3927032
  AUTHORS: Sreerag Melayikandy*, Sodiq O. Waheed, Deyu Li, Christo Z. Christov, Tatyana G. Karabencheva-Christova
  DIVISION: Division of Computers in Chemistry
  SESSION: COMP Poster Session