Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten
Professor of Chemistry
Professor Schulten received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Southern California in 1969, a M.S. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1972, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1975. From 1975 to 1980 she was a Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, and from 1980 to 1985 a Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Munich.
Research
Research: Energy Landscapes of Biological Molecules Exploring the Evolution of Structure Function/Folding
- Evolution of Translation
- Origins of Life
- Physical Bioinformatics
- Prediction of Protein Structure and Function with QR profiles
- Docking with Steered Molecular Dynamics (SMD)
- VMD/Multiple Alignment: Evolutionary Analysis Tools
- Protein Folding: Hybrid Molecular Dynamics
Publications
"Cytochrome c_2 exit strategy: dissociation studies and evolutionary implications," T. V. Pogorelov, F. Autenrieth, E. Roberts, and Z. Luthey-Schulten, J. Phys. Chem. B, 111(3): 618-634 (2007)
"MultiSeq: Unifying sequence and structure data for evolutionary analysis," E. Roberts, J. Eargle, D. Wright, and Z. Luthey-Schulten, BMC Bioinformatics, 2006, 7:382 (2006).
"The evolutionary history of Cys-tRNACys formation," P. O'Donoghue, A. Sethi, C. R. Woese, and Z. Luthey-Schulten, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 102(52):19003-19008 (2005).
"Evolutionary Profiles from the QR Factorization of Multiple Sequence Alignments," A. Sethi, P. O'Donoghue, and Z. Luthey-Schulten, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 102, 4045-4050 (2005). Supplementary Material.
"Evolutionary Profiles Derived from the QR factorization of Multiple Structural Alignments Gives an Economy of Information," P. O'Donoghue and Z. Luthey-Schulten, J. Mol. Biol., 346, 875-894, 2005.
