Publications
White, A.M.B., H.R. Mishcon, J.L. Redwanski and R.D. Hills Jr. 2020. Statin treatment in specific patient groups: Role for improved cardiovascular risk markers. J. Clin. Med. 9:3748. Open Access
Hills Jr., R.D., B.A. Pontefract, H.R. Mishcon, C.A. Black, S.C. Sutton and C.R. Theberge. 2019. Gut microbiome: Profound implications for diet and disease. Nutrients 11:1613. Open Access Editor's Choice Article; 2021 Best Paper Award.
Hills Jr., R.D. 2018. Refining amino acid hydrophobicity for dynamics simulation of membrane proteins. PeerJ 6:e4230. Open Access
Hills Jr., R.D. and E. Erpenbeck. 2018. Guide to popular diets, food choices, and their health outcome. Health Care Current Reviews 6:223. Open Access
Fosso-Tande, J., C. Black, S.G. Aller, L. Lu and R.D. Hills Jr. 2017. Simulation of lipid-protein interactions with the CgProt force field. AIMS Mol. Sci. 4:352-69. Open Access
Hills Jr., R.D. and N. McGlinchey. 2016. Model parameters for simulation of physiological lipids. J. Comput. Chem. 37:1112-18. Featured on inside journal cover . Open Access
Hills Jr., R.D. 2014. Balancing bond, nonbond and Gō-like terms in coarse grain simulations of conformational dynamics. Methods Mol. Biol. 1084:123-40. Download PDF
Faller, C.E., K.A. Reilly, R.D. Hills Jr. and O. Guvench. 2013. Peptide backbone sampling convergence with the adaptive biasing force algorithm. J. Phys. Chem. B 117:518-26. PubMed Central
Ward, A.B., O. Guvench and R.D. Hills Jr. 2012. Coarse grain lipid-protein molecular interactions and diffusion with MsbA flippase. Proteins 80:2178-90. Featured on Journal Cover. Download PDF
Kerkow, D.E., A.B. Carmel, E. Menichelli, G. Ambrus, R.D. Hills Jr, L. Gerace and J.R. Williamson. 2012. The structure of the NXF2/NXT1 heterodimeric complex reveals the combined specificity and versatility of the NTF2-like fold. J. Mol. Biol. 415:649-65. PubMed Central
Jamison II, F.W., T.J. Foster, J.A. Barker, R.D. Hills Jr. and O. Guvench. 2011. Mechanism of binding site conformational switching in the CD44-hyaluronan protein-carbohydrate binding interaction. J. Mol. Biol. 406:631-47. PubMed
Hills Jr., R.D., L. Lu and G.A. Voth. 2010. Multiscale coarse-graining of the protein energy landscape. PLoS Comput. Biol. 6:e1000827. Open Access
Hills Jr., R.D.,* S.V. Kathuria,* L.A. Wallace, I.J. Day, C.L. Brooks III and C.R. Matthews. 2010. Topological frustration in beta/alpha-repeat proteins: Sequence diversity modulates the conserved folding mechanisms of alpha/beta/alpha sandwich proteins. J. Mol. Biol. 398:332-50. PubMed Central
Hills Jr., R.D. and C.L. Brooks III. 2009. Insights from coarse-grained Gō models for protein folding and dynamics. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 10:889-905. IJMS 2013 Best Paper Award, First Prize. Open Access
Hills Jr., R.D. and C.L. Brooks III. 2008. Coevolution of function and the folding landscape: Correlation with density of native contacts. Biophys. J. 95:L57-9. PubMed Central
Hills Jr., R.D. and C.L. Brooks III. 2008. Subdomain competition, cooperativity and topological frustration in the folding of CheY. J. Mol. Biol. 382:485-95. PubMed Central
Hills Jr., R.D. and C.L. Brooks III. 2007. Hydrophobic cooperativity as a mechanism for amyloid nucleation. J. Mol. Biol. 368:894-901. PubMed Central
Brown, L.J., K.L. Sale, R. Hills, C. Rouviere, L. Song, X. Zhang and P.G. Fajer. 2002. Structure of the inhibitory region of troponin by site directed spin labeling electron paramagnetic resonance. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99:12765-70. PubMed Central
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