Selected Publications

These articles seek to strike a balance between seemingly opposing goals, such as experimental versus computational approaches, incapacitating pest insects and sparing beneficial insects, and implementing cancer immunotherapies while preventing autoimmune diseases.

Pang YP, Casal Moura M, Thompson GE, Nelson DR, Hummel AM, Jenne DE, Emerling D, Volkmuth W, Robinson WH, Specks U. Remote activation of a latent epitope in an autoantigen decoded with simulated B-factors. Frontiers in Immunology. 2019; doi:10.3389/fimmu.2019.02467.

Pang YP, Elsbernd LR, Block MS, Markovic SN. Peptide-binding groove contraction linked to the lack of T cell response: Using complex structure and energy to identify neoantigens. Immunohorizons. 2018; doi:10.4049/immunohorizons.1800048

Pang YP. How fast fast-folding proteins fold in silico. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2017; doi:0.1016/j.bbrc.2017.08.010

Darras FH, Pang YP. On the use of the experimentally determined enzyme inhibition constant as a measure of absolute binding affinity. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2017; doi:0.1016/j.bbrc.2017.05.168

Pang YP. FF12MC: A revised AMBER forcefield and new protein simulation protocol. Proteins. 2016; doi:10.1002/prot.25094

Pang YP. Insect acetylcholinesterase as a target for effective and environmentally safe insecticides. Advances in Insect Physiology. 2014; doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-417010-0.00006-9