Michael Levitt

33.8k citations
214 papers · 26.7k · 25 hit papers · h-index 78

Impact in

    • Protein Structure and Dynamics
    • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
    • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
    • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
    • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research

Papers in

    • Protein Structure and Dynamics 136
    • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 53
    • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 21
    • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research 19
    • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry 19
    • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 17
    • Enzyme Structure and Function 92

Michael Levitt

213 papers receiving 25.6k citations

Michael Levitt's Hit Papers

Super-resolution biomolecular crystallography with low-resolution data 2010 · 227 citations
2270+16+32Years since publication250500750

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Michael Levitt
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  • Molecular Biology 20.6k
  • Structural Biology 308
  • Materials Chemistry 8.9k
  • Spectroscopy 2.9k
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry 1.4k
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All Works

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Theoretical studies of enzymic reactions: Dielectric, electrostatic and steric stabilization of the carbonium ion in the reaction of lysozyme
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19763573
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Structural patterns in globular proteins
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19761019
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Conformations of immunoglobulin hypervariable regions
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1989973
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A simplified representation of protein conformations for rapid simulation of protein folding
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1976891
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Computer simulation of protein folding
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1975780
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Conformation of amino acid side-chains in proteins
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1978679
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Aromatic rings act as hydrogen bond acceptors
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1988619
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Protein normal-mode dynamics: Trypsin inhibitor, crambin, ribonuclease and lysozyme
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1985594
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Structure of nucleosome core particles of chromatin
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1977576
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Conformational preferences of amino acids in globular proteins
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1978568
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Calibration and Testing of a Water Model for Simulation of the Molecular Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids in Solution
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1997490
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Helix to helix packing in proteins
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1981472
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Automatic identification of secondary structure in globular proteins
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1977430
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Potential energy function and parameters for simulations of the molecular dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids in solution
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1995370
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Accurate simulation of protein dynamics in solution.
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1988362
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Refinement of protein conformations using a macromolecular energy minimization procedure
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1969348
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Energy Functions that Discriminate X-ray and Near-native Folds from Well-constructed Decoys
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1996347
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Detailed Molecular Model for Transfer Ribonucleic Acid
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1969322
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Refinement of large structures by simultaneous minimization of energy and R factor
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1978298
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Protein folding by restrained energy minimization and molecular dynamics
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1983289

About Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Cell Biology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, having authored 214 papers that have together received 26.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (136 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (92 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (53 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (21 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (19 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (19 papers), Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (17 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (20.6k citations), Structural Biology (308 citations), Materials Chemistry (8.9k citations), Spectroscopy (2.9k citations) and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (1.4k citations). Michael Levitt has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Israel and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Arieh Warshel, Cyrus Chothia, Valerie Daggett, Mark Gerstein, Patrice Koehl, R. Sharon, M. F. Perutz, Jerry Tsai, Christian Sander and Peter Stern. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Molecular Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics and Biochemistry.

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