Shannon Stewman

TL;DR: In this paper, the ReaxFFSiO, reactive force field was developed to predict the structures, properties, and chemistry of materials involving silicon and silicon oxides; interfaces between these materials; and hydrolysis of such systems, and the parameters for this force field were obtained from fitting to the results of quantum chemical (QC) calculations on the structures and energy barriers for a number of silicon oxide clusters.

TL;DR: The expansion of the number of recognizable amino acids is described and the kinetic principles that allow individual recognizers to identify multiple amino acids in a highly information-rich manner that is sensitive to adjacent residues are demonstrated.

TL;DR: In this article , a physically rigorous structural mechano-chemical model is presented, where dynamic instability is driven by non-equilibrium transitions between the bent (B), straight (S), and curved (C) structures of tubulin monomers and longitudinal interfaces in the two-dimensional lattice of microtubule.

TL;DR: Based on a comprehensive mechanistic model on the assembly dynamics of microtubules, this article found that nucleation is determined by frequency of catastrophe, the switching from microtubule growth to shortening.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors developed a physically rigorous structure-based mechano-chemical model that provides an unified mechanism for both types of nucleations, and showed that the critical tubulin concentration for nucleation is much higher than that for growth, and the concentrationdependent time lags.