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Blake Mertz
Blake Mertz
Principal Scientist, Alivexis
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Retinal ligand mobility explains internal hydration and reconciles active rhodopsin structures
N Leioatts, B Mertz, K Martínez-Mayorga, TD Romo, MC Pitman, SE Feller, ...
Biochemistry 53 (2), 376-385, 2014
542014
Molecular simulations and solid-state NMR investigate dynamical structure in rhodopsin activation
B Mertz, AV Struts, SE Feller, MF Brown
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes 1818 (2), 241-251, 2012
462012
Molecular dynamics simulations as a tool for accurate determination of surfactant micelle properties
S Faramarzi, B Bonnett, CA Scaggs, A Hoffmaster, D Grodi, E Harvey, ...
Langmuir 33 (38), 9934-9943, 2017
452017
Computational analyses of the conformational itinerary along the reaction pathway of GH94 cellobiose phosphorylase
S Fushinobu, B Mertz, AD Hill, M Hidaka, M Kitaoka, PJ Reilly
Carbohydrate research 343 (6), 1023-1033, 2008
332008
Automated docking to explore subsite binding by glycoside hydrolase family 6 cellobiohydrolases and endoglucanases
B Mertz, AD Hill, C Mulakala, PJ Reilly
Biopolymers: Original Research on Biomolecules 87 (4), 249-260, 2007
292007
Ions Modulate Key Interactions between pHLIP and Lipid Membranes
J Westerfield, C Gupta, H Scott, Y Ye, A Cameron, B Mertz, FN Barrera
Biophysical Journal 117 (5), 920-929, 2019
272019
Activation of the G‐protein‐coupled receptor rhodopsin by water
U Chawla, SMDC Perera, SDE Fried, AR Eitel, B Mertz, N Weerasinghe, ...
Angewandte Chemie 133 (5), 2318-2325, 2021
262021
Novel phosphotidylinositol 4, 5-bisphosphate binding sites on focal adhesion kinase
J Feng, B Mertz
PLoS One 10 (7), e0132833, 2015
232015
Phylogenetic analysis of family 6 glycoside hydrolases
B Mertz, RS Kuczenski, RT Larsen, AD Hill, PJ Reilly
Biopolymers: Original Research on Biomolecules 79 (4), 197-206, 2005
232005
Steric and electronic influences on the torsional energy landscape of retinal
B Mertz, M Lu, MF Brown, SE Feller
Biophysical journal 101 (3), L17-L19, 2011
222011
Cooperative Non-bonded Forces Control Membrane Binding of the pH-Low Insertion Peptide pHLIP
C Gupta, Y Ren, B Mertz
Biophysical Journal 115 (12), 2403-2412, 2018
182018
Protonation enhances the inherent helix-forming propensity of pHLIP
C Gupta, B Mertz
ACS omega 2 (11), 8536-8542, 2017
182017
Analysis of functional divergence within two structurally related glycoside hydrolase families
B Mertz, X Gu, PJ Reilly
Biopolymers: Original Research on Biomolecules 91 (6), 478-495, 2009
172009
Homo-oligomerization of the human adenosine A2A receptor is driven by the intrinsically disordered C-terminus
KDQ Nguyen, M Vigers, E Sefah, S Seppälä, JP Hoover, ...
Elife 10, e66662, 2021
152021
Proteorhodopsin activation is modulated by dynamic changes in internal hydration
J Feng, B Mertz
Biochemistry 54 (48), 7132-7141, 2015
142015
Retinal flip in rhodopsin activation?
J Feng, MF Brown, B Mertz
Biophysical journal 108 (12), 2767-2770, 2015
142015
Physicochemical properties altered by the tail group of lipid membranes influence Huntingtin aggregation and lipid binding
M Beasley, N Frazee, S Groover, SJ Valentine, B Mertz, J Legleiter
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 126 (16), 3067-3081, 2022
92022
Theoretical insights into the mechanism of wavelength regulation in blue-absorbing proteorhodopsin
C Lee, S Sekharan, B Mertz
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 123 (50), 10631-10641, 2019
82019
Bacterial analogs to cholesterol affect dimerization of proteorhodopsin and modulates preferred dimer interface
E Sefah, B Mertz
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 17 (4), 2502-2512, 2021
72021
Allosteric effects of the proton donor on the microbial proton pump proteorhodopsin
S Faramarzi, J Feng, B Mertz
Biophysical journal 115 (7), 1240-1250, 2018
62018
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