Donald E. Elmore

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Wellesley College

Publications

(Undergraduate co-authors are underlined and corresponding authors are denoted by an asterik.)

Tsao, H. T.; Spinella, S. A.; Lee, A. T.; Elmore, D. E. "Design of histone-derived antimicrobial peptides." Peptides. In press. doi: 10.1016/j.peptides.2009.09.011

Bruce, L. A.; Sigman, J. A.; Randall, D.; Rodriguez, S.; Song, M. M.; Dai, Y.; Elmore, D. E.; Pabon, A.; Glucksman, M. J.; Wolfson, A. J.* "Hydrogen bond residue positioning is required for substrate selection." FEBS J. 2008, 275, 5607-5617.

Fleming, E.; Maharaj, N. P.; Chen, J. L.; Nelson, R. B.; Elmore, D. E.* "Effect of lipid composition on buforin II structure and membrane entry.” Proteins. 2008, 73, 480-491.

Maurer, J. A.*; Elmore, D. E.*; Clayton, D.; Xiong, L.; Lester, H. A.; Dougherty, D. A. "Confirming the revised C-terminal domain of the MscL crystal structure." Biophys. J. 2008, 94, 4662-4667.

Uyterhoeven, E. T.; Butler, C. H.; Ko, D.; Elmore, D. E.* "Investigating the nucleic acid interactions and antimicrobial mechanism of buforin II." FEBS Lett. 2008, 582, 1715-1718.

Elmore, D. E.* Review of Computational Organic Chemistry by Steven M. Bachrach. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 14527-14528.

Spronk, S. A.; Elmore, D. E.; Dougherty, D. A.* "Voltage-dependent hydration and conduction properties of the hydrophobic pore of the MscS channel." Biophys. J. 2006, 90, 3555-3569.

Elmore, D. E.*; Prentice, J. C.*; Trosset, C.* "Do students understand liberal arts disciplines?" Liberal Education 2006, 580, 144-148.

Elmore, D. E.* “Equilibration of a phosphatidylglycerol membrane.” FEBS Lett. 2006, 580, 144-148. (Link to equilibrated membrane downloads.)

Elmore, D. E.; Dougherty, D. A.* “Investigating lipid composition effects on the mechanosensitive channel of large conductance (MscL) using molecular dynamics simulations.” Biophys. J. 2003, 85, 1512-1524.

Elmore, D. E.; Dougherty, D. A.* “Molecular dynamics simulations of wild type and mutant forms of the M. tuberculosis MscL channel.” Biophys. J. 2001, 81, 1345-1359.

Maurer, J. A.; Elmore, D. E.; Lester, H. A.; Dougherty, D. A.* “Comparing and contrasting E. coli and M. tuberculosis mechanosensitive channels (MscL). New gain of function mutations in the loop region.” J. Biol. Chem. 2000, 275, 22238-22244.

Elmore, D. E.; Dougherty, D. A.* “A computational study of nicotine conformations in the gas phase and in water.” J. Org. Chem. 2000, 65, 742-747.

Maut-Ner, M.; Elmore, D. E.; Scheiner, S.* “Ionic hydrogen bond effects on the acidities, basicities, solvation, solvent bridging, and self-assembly of carboxylic groups.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 7625-7635.

Kar, T.; Elmore, D. E.; Scheiner, S.* “BN-naphthalene and carbon-containing derivatives: An ab initio study.” J. Mol. Struct./THEOCHEM 1997, 392, 65-74.