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TU München ~ Physik Department ~ Vorlesungsverzeichnis der TUM ~ Vorlesungen von M. Zacharias  
 
 




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124.) Leis S., Zacharias M. (2011) Efficient inclusion of receptor flexibility in grid-based protein-ligand docking. J Comput Chem. 32(16), 3433-3439

123.) Setny P., Zacharias M. (2011) A coarse-grained force field for Protein-RNA docking . Nucleic Acids Res. [Epub ahead of print]

122.) Garstka M.A., Fritzsche S., Lenart I., Hein Z., Jankevicius G., Boyle LH., Elliott T., Trowsdale J., Antoniou A.N., Zacharias M.,Springer S. (2011) Tapasin dependence of major histocompatibility complex class I molecules correlates with their conformational flexibility. FASEB J. [Epub ahead of print]

121.) Kannan S. , Zacharias M. (2011) Role of the closing base pair for d(GCA) hairpin stability: free energy analysis and folding simulations. Nucleic Acids Res. [Epub ahead of print]

120.) Vargiu AV., Collu F., Schulz R., Pos KM., Zacharias M., Kleinekathoefer U, Ruggerone P. (2011) Effect of the F610A Mutation on Substrate Extrusion in the AcrB Transporter: Explanation and Rationale by Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J Am Chem Soc. 133(28): 10704-10707.

119.) Droescher M., Begitt A., Marg A., Zacharias M., Vinkemeier U. (2011) Cytokine-induced paracrystals prolong the activity of signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) and provide a model for the regulation of protein solubility by small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO). J Biol Chem. 286(21): 18731-46.

118.) Koch N., Zacharias M., König A., Temme S., Neumann J., Springer S. (2011) Stoichiometry of HLA class II-invariant chain oligomers. PLoS One 6(2): e17257.

117.) Fiorucci S., Zacharias M. (2010) Binding site prediction and improved scoring during flexible protein-protein docking with ATTRACT. Proteins 78(15): 3131-9.

116.) Liang S., Zheng D., Standley DM., Yao B., Zacharias M., Zhang C. (2010) EPSVR and EPMeta: prediction of antigenic epitopes using support vector regression and multiple server results. BMC Bioinformatics 11: 381.

115.) Kannan S., Zacharias M. (2010) Application of biasing-potential replica-exchange simulations for loop modeling and refinement of proteins in explicit solvent. Proteins 78(13): 2809-19.

114.) Beier C., Zacharias M. (2010) Tackling the challenges posed by target flexibility in drug design. Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 5(4): 347-359.

113.) Soriani M., Petit P., Grifantini R., Petracca R., Gancitano G., Frigimelica E., Nardelli F., Garcia C., Spinelli S., Scarabelli G., Fiorucci S., Affentranger R., Ferrer-Navarro M., Zacharias M., Colombo G., Vuillard L., Daura X., Grandi G. (2010) Syntheses and activities of backbone-side chain cyclic octapeptide ligands with N-functionalized phosphotyrosine for the N-terminal SH2-domain of the protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1. J Biol Chem. 285(39): 30126-38.

112.) Zoda MS., Zacharias M., Reissmann S. (2010) Syntheses and activities of backbone-side chain cyclic octapeptide ligands with N-functionalized phosphotyrosine for the N-terminal SH2-domain of the protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1. J Pept Sci. 16(8): 403-13.

111.) Setny P., Zacharias M. (2010) Hydration in discrete water. A mean field, cellular automata based approach to calculating hydration free energies. J Phys Chem B. 114(26): 8667-75.

110.) Saladin A., Amourda C., Poulain P., Férey N., Baaden M., Zacharias M., Delalande O., Prévost C.. (2010) Modeling the early stage of DNA sequence recognition within RecA nucleoprotein filaments. Nucleic Acids Res. 38(19): 6313-23.

109.) Zacharias, M. (2010) Accounting for conformational changes during protein-protein docking. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 20:180-186.

108.) Leis, S., Schneider, S. and M. Zacharias (2010) In silico prediction of binding sites on proteins. Curr. Med. Chem. 17, 1550-1562. ->pdf

107.) El-Barghouti, M. I., Saleh, A. I. , Ghandour, A., Ghanem, R. and M. Zacharias (2010) Examining the potency of suggested inhibitors for the phosphatase activity of the human soluble epoxide hydrolase by molecular dynamics simulations. J. Mol. Struct.: Theochem. 944, 97-104.

106.) S. Fiorucci and M. Zacharias (2010) Prediction of protein-protein interaction sites using electrostatic desolvation profiles Biophys. J. 98, 1921-1930.

105.) W. Lee, L. Vojcic, D. Despotovic, R. Prodanovic, K.-He. Maurer, U. Schwaneberg and M. Zacharias (2010) Rationalizing perhydrolase activity of aryl-esterase and subtilisin carlsberg mutants by molecular dynamics simulations of the second tetrahedral intermediate state.  Theoretical Chem. Acc. 125, 375-386.

104.) R. Yaneva, C. Schneeweiss, M. Zacharias and S. Springer (2010) Peptide binding to MHC class I and II proteins: new avenues from new methods. Mol. Immunol. 47, 449-455.

103.) B. Müller, M. Zacharias and K. Rezwan (2009) Bovine serum albumin and lysozyme adsorption on calcium phosphate particles. Adv. Eng. Mat. 12, B53-B61

102.) R. Bahadur, S. Kannan and M. Zacharias (2009) Binding of the bacteriophage P22 N-peptide to the boxB RNA motif studied by molecular dynamics simulations. Biophys. J. 97, 3139-3149..

101.) S. Kannan and M.Zacharias (2009) Simulation of DNA double-strand dissociation and formation during replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulations.  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11, 10589-10595.

100.) Curuksu J, Sponer J, Zacharias M. (2009) Elbow flexibility of the kt38 RNA kink-turn motif investigated by free-energy molecular dynamics simulations. Biophys J. 97, 2004-2013.

99.)   Liang S, Zheng D, Zhang C, Zacharias M. (2009) Prediction of antigenic epitopes on protein surfaces by consensus scoring. BMC Bioinformatics 10, 302.

98.)   Teichmann K, Kühl T, Könnig I, Wieligmann K, Zacharias M, Imhof D. (2009) Modulation of SHP-1 phosphatase activity by mono- and bivalent SH2 phosphopeptide ligands. Biopolymers Sep 18. [Epub ahead of print]

97.)   Curuksu J, Zacharias M, Lavery R, Zakrzewska K. (2009) Local and global effects of strong DNA bending induced during molecular dynamics simulations. Nucleic Acids Res. 37, 3766-3773.

96.)   Teichmann K, Niksch T, Wieligmann K, Zacharias M, Imhof D. (2009) Synthetic Strategies to a Backbone-side Chain Cyclic SHP-1 N-SH2 Ligand Containing N-Functionalized Alkyl Phosphotyrosine. Protein Pept. Lett. 2009 Sep 13. [Epub ahead of print]

95.)   Saladin A, Fiorucci S, Poulain P, Prévost C, Zacharias M. (2009) PTools: an opensource molecular docking library. BMC Struct. Biol. 9:27-38.

94.)   Kannan S, Zacharias M. (2009) Folding of Trp-cage Mini Protein Using Temperature and Biasing Potential Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 10, 1121-1137.

93.)   S. Kannan and M.Zacharias (2009) Simulated Annealing coupled Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics - an Efficient Conformational Sampling Method. J.  Struct. Biol. 166, 288-294.

92.)   J. Curuksu and M.Zacharias (2009) Enhanced conformational sampling of nucleic acids by a new Hamiltonian replica exchange molecular dynamics approach. J. Chem. Phys. 130, 104110.

91.)   S. Kannan and M.Zacharias (2009) Folding simulations of Trp-cage mini protein in explicit solvent using biasing potential replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulations. Proteins 76, 448-460.

90.)   R. Yaneva, S. Springer, and M. Zacharias (2009) Flexibility of the MHC class II peptide binding cleft in the bound, partially filled and empty states: A molecular dynamics simulation study. Biopolymers 91, 14-27.

89.)   S. Frickenhaus, S. Kannan and M. Zacharias (2009) Efficient evaluation of sampling quality of molecular dynamics simulations by clustering of dihedral torsion angles and Sammon mapping. J. Comput. Chem. 30, 479-492.

88.)   F. Sieker, A. May and M. Zacharias (2008) Predicting affinity and specificity of antigenic peptide binding to major histocompatibility class I molecules. Curr. Pept. Sci. 10, 286-296.

87.)   M. Niemann, M. Brecht, E. Schlüter, K. Weitzel, M. Zacharias and H. Göringer (2008) TbMP42 is a structure-sensitive ribonuclease that likely follows a metal-ion catalysis mechanism. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, 4465-4473.

86.)   R. P. Bahadur, M. Zacharias, and J. Janin (2008) Dissecting Protein-RNA recognition sites. Nucleic Acids Res 36, 2705-2716.

85.)    A. May and M. Zacharias (2008) Protein ligand docking accounting for receptor side chain and global flexibility in normal modes: Evaluation on kinase inhibitor cross docking. J. Med. Chem. 51, 3499-3506

84.)   F. Sieker, T. P. Straatsma, S. Springer, M. Zacharias (2008) Differential tapasin dependence of MHC class I molecules correlates with conformational changes upon peptide dissociation: A molecular dynamics simulation study. Mol. Immunol. 45, 3714-3722.

83.)   M. Zacharias (2008) Combining elastic network analysis and molecular dynamics simulations by Hamiltonian replica exchange. J. Chem Theory Comput. 4, 477-487.

82.)   A. Hölzle, S. Fischer, R. Heyer, S. Schütz, M. Zacharias, P. Walther, T. Allers, and A. Marchfelder (2008) Maturation of the 5S rRNA 5' end is catalyzed in vitro by the endonuclease tRNase Z in the archaeon H. volcanii. RNA, 14, 928-937.

81.)   A. May and M. Zacharias (2008) Energy minimization in low-frequency normal modes to efficiently allow for global flexibility during systematic protein-protein docking. Proteins, 70, 794-809.

80.)   R. P. Bahadur and M. Zacharias (2008) The Interface of Protein-Protein Complexes: Analysis of Contacts and Prediction of Interactions. Cellul. Mol. Life Sci., 65, 1059-1072.

79.)   A. May and M. Zacharias (2008) Protein-protein docking in CAPRI using ATTRACT to account for global and local flexibility. Proteins, 69, 774-780.

78.)   J. Curuksu, K. Zakrzewska and M. Zacharias (2008) A new approach to study magnitude and direction of DNA bending: Influence of sequence, mismatches and abasic sites. Nucleic Acids Res., 36, 2268-2283.

77.)   A. May, F. Sieker and M. Zacharias (2008) How to efficiently include receptor flexibility during computational docking. Curr. Comput. Aided Drug Des., 4, 143-153.

76.)   S. Kannan, and M. Zacharias (2007) Folding of a DNA hairpin loop structure in explicit solvent using replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulations. Biophys. J., 93, 3218-3228.

75.)   D. Roccatano, A. Barthel and M. Zacharias (2007) Structural flexibility of the nucleosome core particle at atomic resolution studied by molecular dynamics simulation. Biopolymers, 85, 407-421.

74.)   D. Roccatano, S. Sahoo, M. Zacharias and Werner Nau (2007) Temperature Dependence of Looping Rates in a Short Peptide. J. Phys. Chem B, 111, 2639-2646.

73.)   F. Sieker, S. Springer, and M. Zacharias (2007) Comparative molecular dynamics analysis of tapasin-depnendent and independent MHC class I alleles. Protein Science, 16, 299-308.

72.)   T. Heck, M. Limbach, B. Geueke, M. Zacharias, J. Gardiner, H.P. Kohler, and D. Seebach (2006) Enzymatic degradation of beta- and mixed alpha,beta-oligopeptides. Chem Biodivers. 3, 1325-1348.

71.)   S. Kannan, and M. Zacharias (2007) Enhanced sampling of peptide and protein conformations using replica exchange simulations with a peptide backbone biasing-potential. Proteins. 66, 697-706.

70.)   M. Homann, M. Lorger, M. Engstler, M. Zacharias, H.U. Göringer (2006) Serum-stable RNA aptamers to an invariant surface domain of live African trypanosomes. Comb Chem High Throughput Screen. 9, 491-499.

69.)   D. Roccatano, T.S. Wong, U. Schwaneberg, M. Zacharias (2006) Toward understanding the inactivation mechanism of monooxygenase P450 BM-3 by organic cosolvents: A molecular dynamics simulation study. Biopolymers. 83, 467-476.

68.)   H. Sahoo, D. Roccatano, M. Zacharias, and W. M. Nau (2006) Distance Distributions of Short Polypeptides Recovered by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer in the 10 Å Domain. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 8118-8119.

67.)   S. Kannan, K. Kohlhoff, and M. Zacharias (2006) B-DNA Under Stress: Over and Un-Twisting of DNA during Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Biophys. J. 91, 2956-2965.

66.)   K. Hampel, I. Kaufhold, M. Zacharias, F. D. Böhmer, and D. Imhof (2006) Phosphotyrosyl Peptide Ligands of the SHP-1 N-SH2 Domain: Effects on Binding and Stimulation of Phosphatase Activity. Chem. Med. Chem. 1, 869-877.

65.)   D. Imhof, A. S. Wavreille, A. May, M. Zacharias, S. Tridandapani, and D. Pei (2006) Sequence specificity of SHP-1 and SHP-2 SH2 domains: Critical roles of residues beyond the pY+3 position. J. Biol. Chem., 28, 20271-82.

64.)   M. Zacharias (2006) Minor groove deformability of DNA: A Molecular dynamics free energy simulation study. Biophys J. 91, 882-91.

63.)   F. Razga, M. Zacharias, K. Reblova, J. Koca, and J. Sponer (2006) RNA kink-turns as molecular elbows: hydration, cation binding, and large-scale dynamics. Structure 14, 825-835.

62.)   S. Wong, D. Roccatano, M. Zacharias, and U. Schwaneberg (2006) A Statistical Analysis of Random Mutagenesis Methods Used for Directed Protein Evolution. J. Mol. Biol. 355, 858-871.

61.)   A. Barthel, and M. Zacharias (2006) Conformational Transitions in RNA Single Uridine and Adenosine Bulge Structures: A Molecular Dynamics Free Energy Simulation Study. Biophys. J. 90, 2450-2462.

60.)   K. Bastard, Prevost, C., and M. Zacharias (2006) Accounting for loop flexibility during protein-protein docking. Proteins, 62, 956-969.

59.)   H. U. Göringer, M. Homann, M. Zacharias, and A. Adler (2005) RNA aptamers as potential pharmaceuticals against infections with African trypanosomes. H. of Experimental Pharmacology, 173, 375-393.

58.)   A. May, and M. Zacharias (2005) Accounting for global protein deformability during protein-protein and protein-ligand docking. Biochem. Biophys. Acta, 1754, 225-231.

57.)   A. Szymoszek, and M. Zacharias (2005) Structure prediction of segments with low target-template similarity in comparative protein modelling using a reduced protein model. IE J. of Mol. Design 4, 659-670.

56.)   N. Riemann and M. Zacharias (2005) Refinement of protein cores and protein-peptide interfaces using a potential scaling approach. Prot. Engineering, 18, 465-476.

55.)   D. Roccatano, M. Fioroni, M. Zacharias, and G. Colombo (2005) Effect of hexafluoroisopropanol alcohol on the structure of Melittin: a molecular dynamics simulation study. Prot. Sci. 14, 2582-2589.

54.)   M. Zacharias (2005) ATTRACT: Protein-Protein Docking in CAPRI Using a Reduced Protein Model. Proteins 60, 252-256.

53.)   D. Roccatano, T.S. Wong, U. Schwaneberg, and M. Zacharias (2005) Structural and dynamic properties of cythocrome P450 BM3 in pure water and in DMSO/water mixture. Biopolymers, 78, 259-267.

52.)   M. Zacharias (2005) Vorhersage von Protein-Protein Wechselwirkungen durch Docking-Simulationen. Bioforum 2/2005, 38-39.

51.)   Y. Ihle, O. Ohlenschlager, S. Hafner, E. Duchardt, M. Zacharias, S. Seitz, R. Zell, R. Ramachandran, and M. Gorlach (2005) A novel cGUUAg tetraloop structure with a conserved yYNMGg-type backbone conformation from cloverleaf 1 of bovine enterovirus 1 RNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 33, 2003-2011.

50.)   D. Imhof, Wieligmann K, Hampel K, Nothmann D, Zoda MS, Schmidt-Arras D, Zacharias M, Bohmer FD, Reissmann S. (2005) Design and biological evaluation of linear and cyclic phosphopeptide ligands of the N-terminal SH2 domain of protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1. J. Med. Chem. 48, 1528-1539.

49.)   Stix B, Leber M, Bingemer P, Gross C, Ruschoff J, Fandrich M, Schorderet DF, Vorwerk CK, Zacharias M, Roessner A, Rocken C. (2005) Hereditary lattice corneal dystrophy is associated with corneal amyloid deposits enclosing C-terminal fragments of keratoepithelin. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 46, 1133-1139.

48.)   Wong, T. S., N. Wu, D. Roccatano, M. Zacharias, U. Schwaneberg (2005) Sensitive assay for laboratory evolution of hydroxylases toward aromatic and heterocyclic compounds. J. Biomol. Screen. 10, 246-252.

47.)   M. Zacharias, and J. W. Engels (2004) Influence of a fluorobenzene nucleobase analogue on the conformational flexibility of RNA studied by molecular dynamics simulations. Nucleic Acids Res. 32, 6304-6311.

46.)   D. Roccatano, W. Nau, and M. Zacharias (2004) Structural and dynamical properties of CAGQW peptide in water: A molecular dynamics simulation study using different force fields. J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 18734-18742.

45.)   T. P. Monie, J. S. Greatorex, M. Zacharias, and A. M. L. Lever. (2004) The human T-cell lymphotopic virus type-1 dimerisation initiation site forms a hairpin loop unlike previously characterized retroviral dimerisation motifs. Biochemistry 43, 6085-6090.

44.)   M. Zacharias, and S. Springer (2004) Conformational flexibility of the MHC class I α1-α2 domain in peptide bound and free states: A molecular dynamics simulation study. Biophys. J., 87, 2203-2214.

43.)   C. A. Wright, P. Kozik, M. Zacharias, and S. Springer (2004) Tapasin and other chaperones: Models of the MHC class I loading complex. Biol. Chem. 385, 763-778.

42.)   N. Riemann and M. Zacharias (2004) Reversible scaling of dihedral angle barriers during molecular dynamics to improve structure prediction of cyclic peptides and protein loops”. J. Peptide Res. 63, 354-364.

41.)   M. Zacharias (2004) Rapid Protein-ligand docking including soft degrees of freedom from molecular dynamics simulations to account for protein flexibility: FK506 binding to FKBP binding protein as an example. Proteins 54, 759-767.

40.)   G. Villescas and M. Zacharias (2004) Efficient search approaches on energy minima for structure prediction of nucleic acid motifs. J. Biomol. Struct. Dyn. 22, 355-364.

39.)   C. Frank, C. Burkhardt, D. Imhof, J. Ringel, O. Zschörnig, K. Wieligmann, M. Zacharias, F.D. Böhmer (2004) Effective dephosphorylation of Src substrates by SHP-1. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 11375-11383.

38.)   G. Gessner, M. Zacharias, S. Bechstedt, , R. Schönherr, S.H. Heinemann. (2004) Molecular determinants for high-affinity block of human EAG potassium channels by antiarrythmic agents. Mol. Pharmacology, 65, 1120-1129.

37.)   M. Zacharias (2003) Perspectives of Drug design that targets RNA. Curr. Med. Chem.-Anti-Infective Agents 2, 161-172.

36.)   G. Villescas, and M. Zacharias (2003) Sequence context dependence of tandem guanine: adenine mismatch conformations in RNA: A continuum solvent analysis. Biophys. J. 85, 1311-1321.

35.)   M. Zacharias (2003) Continuum solvent modelling of non-polar solvation: Improvement by separating surface area dependent cavity and dispersion contributions. J. Phys. Chem. A, 107, 3000-3004.

34.)   M. Zacharias (2003) Protein-protein docking with a reduced protein model accounting for side-chain flexibility. Protein Sci. 12, 1271-1282.

33.)   K. Wieligmann, F. Pineda, and M. Zacharias (2002) Conformational preferences of SH2 domains in ligand-bound and free states studied by molecular dynamics simulations.  In Silico Biol. 2, 305-311.

32.)   F. Pineda, and M. Zacharias (2002) DAPI binding to the DNA minor groove: A continuum solvent analysis. J. Mol. Recog.15, 209-220.

31.)   M. Zacharias (2001) Conformational analysis of DNA-trinucleotide-hairpin-loop structures using a continuum solvent model. Biophys. J. 80, 2350-2363.

30.)   M. Feig, M. Zacharias, and M. E. Pettitt (2001) Conformation of an adenine bulge in a DNA octamer and its influence on DNA structure from molecular dynamics simulations. Biophys. J. 81, 352-370.

29.)   C. Burkhardt, and M. Zacharias (2001) Modeling ion binding to AA-platform motifs in RNA: A continuum solvent study including conformational adaptation. Nucleic Acids Res. 29, 3910-3918.

28.)   M. Zacharias, and H. Sklenar (2000) Conformational deformability of RNA: A harmonic mode analysis. Biophys. J. 78, 2528-2542.

27.)   M. Zacharias (2000) Simulation of the structure and dynamics of non-helical RNA motifs. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 10, 311-317.

26.)   M. Zacharias (2000) Comparison of molecular dynamics and harmonic mode calculations on RNA. Biopolymers, 54, 547-560.

25.)   M. Zacharias, and H. Sklenar (1999) Harmonic modes as variables to approximately account for receptor flexibility in ligand-receptor docking simulations: Application to a DNA minor groove ligand complex. J. Comput. Chem. 20, 287-300.

24.)   M. Zacharias, and H. Sklenar (1999) Conformational analysis of single base bulges in A-form DNA and RNA using a hierarchical approach and energetic evaluation with a continuum solvent  model. J. Mol. Biol. 289, 261-27.

23.)   M. Zacharias, and P. J. Hagerman (1997) Influence of static and dynamic bends on the birefringence decay profile of RNA helices: Brownian dynamics simulations. Biophys. J. 73, 318-327.

22.)   M. Zacharias, and H. Sklenar (1997) Analysis of the stability of looped out and stacked in conformations of an adenine bulge in DNA using a continuum model for solvent and ions. Biophys. J. 73, 2990-3003.

21.)   M. Zacharias, and P. J. Hagerman (1996) The influence of symmetric internal loops on the flexibility of RNA. J. Mol. Biol. 257, 276-289.     

20.)   B. L. Luty, Z. R. Wasserman, P. F. W. Stouten, C. N. Hodge, M. Zacharias, and J. A. McCammon (1995) A Molecular Mechanics/Grid Method for Evaluation of Ligand-Receptor Interactions. J. Comp. Chem. 16, 454-464.

19.)   M. Zacharias, and P. J. Hagerman (1995) The bend in RNA created by the trans- activation response element bulge of human immunodeficiency virus is straightened by arginine and by Tat-derived peptide. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92, 6052-6056.

18.)   M. Zacharias, and T. P. Straatsma (1995) Path Dependence of Free Energy Components in Thermodynamic Integration. Molecular Simulations 14, 417-423.

17.)   M. Zacharias, and P. J. Hagerman (1995) Bulge-Induced Bends in RNA: Quantification by Transient Electric Birefringence. J. Mol. Biol. 247, 486-500.

16.)   M. Zacharias, B. A. Luty, M. E. Davis, and J. A. McCammon (1994) Combined Conformational Search and Finite-Difference Poisson-Boltzmann Approach for Flexible Docking: Application to an Operator Mutation in the lambda Repressor-Operator Complex. J. Mol. Biol., 238, 455-465.

15.)   M. Zacharias, T. P. Straatsma, and J. A. McCammon (1994) Separation-shifted scaling, a new scaling method for Lennard-Jones interactions in thermodynamic integration. J. Chem. Phys.100, 9025-9031.

14.)   T. P. Straatsma, M. Zacharias, and J. A. McCammon (1993) Free energy difference calculations in biomolecular systems. pp 349-367, in: Computer Simulation of Biomolecular Systems, Vol. 2 (ed. van Gunsteren, W.F., Weiner, P.K., and Wilkinson, A.J.), Escom Science Publishers, Leiden.

13.)   M. Zacharias, T. P. Straatsma, and J. A. McCammon (1993) Inversion of Receptor Binding Preferences by Mutagenesis: Free Energy Thermodynamic Integration Studies on Sugar Binding to L-Arabinose Binding Proteins. Biochemistry 32, 7428-7434.

12.)   M. Zacharias, H. U. Göringer, and R. Wagner (1992) Analysis of the Fis-dependent and Fis-Independent Transcription Activation Mechanisms of the Escherichia coli Ribosomal RNA P1 Promoter. Biochemistry 31, 2621-2628.

11.)   T. P. Straatsma, M. Zacharias, and J. A. McCammon (1992) Holonomic Constraint Contribution in Thermodynamic Integration Free Energy Calculations. Chem. Phys. Lett. 196, 297-301.

10.)   M. Zacharias, B. A. Luty, M. E. Davis, and J. A. McCammon (1992) Poisson-Boltzmann analysis of the lambda-repressor-operator interaction. Biophys. J. 63, 1280-1285.

9.)     R. Wagner, G. Theißen, and M. Zacharias (1992) in: Regulation of ribosomal RNA synthesis and control of ribosome formation in E. coli. USA, Plenum Press Publishing Corp.

8.)     M. Zacharias, G. Theißen, C. Bradaczek, and R. Wagner (1991) Analysis of sequence elements important for the synthesis of ribosomal RNA in E. coli. Biochimie 73, 699-712.

7.)     M. Zacharias, H. U. Göringer, and R. Wagner (1990) Polyacrylamide gradient electrophoresis for the detection of bent DNA fragments. Nucleic Acids Res. 18, 2827.

6.)     G. Theißen, J. Eberle, M. Zacharias, L. Tobias, and R.Wagner (1990) The tL-structure within the leader region of Escherichia coli ribosomal RNA operons has post-transcriptional functions. Nucleic Acids Res. 18, 3893-3901.

5.)     M. Zacharias, H. U. Göringer, and R. Wagner (1990) The signal for growth rate control and stringent sensitivity in E.coli is not restricted to a particular sequence motif within the promoter region. Nucleic Acids Res. 18, 6271-6275.

4.)     M. Zacharias, H. U. Göringer, and R. Wagner (1989) Influence of the GCGC discriminator          motif introduced into the ribosomal RNA P2- and tac-promoter on growth rate and stringent sensitivity. EMBO J. 8, 3357-3363.

3.)    M. Zacharias, and R. Wagner (1989) Functional characterisation of a putative internal promoter sequence between the 16S and 23S rRNA genes within the E.coli rrnB-operon. Mol. Microbiol. 3, 405-410.

2.)     M. Zacharias, and R. Wagner (1987) Deletions in the tL-structure upstream of rRNA genes in the E.coli rrnB operon causes transcription polarity. Nucleic Acids Res. 15, 8235-8248.

1.)     N. Meier, H. U. Göringer, B. Kleuvers, U. Scheibe, J. Eberle, C. Szymkowiak, M. Zacharias, and R. Wagner (1986) The importance of individual nucleotides for the structure and function of rRNA molecules in E.coli. FEBS Letters 204, 89-95.