Much research in the Schulten group involves collaborations with
experimental laboratories. In fact, Schulten has initiated significant
experimental research in the detection of biological transport through
photobleaching [39], spin chemistry methods and chemical magnetic
field effects [40], MRI microscopy [41], and protein
structure analysis [42]. During the past seven years, Schulten has
completed ten different modeling projects that directly complemented
experiments by collaborators and were published jointly. These covered
the map formation in the visual cortex [2], MRI microscopy [43], the
morphogenesis of the lateral geniculate nucleus [44], analysis of an
artificial membrane [45], solution of the structure of a protein by a
combination of crystallography and modeling [42], a model of the
structure of a high density lipoprotein [12], the prediction of the structure of a novel
DNA-protein complex [10] that has been largely proven correct by the
recent crystallographic solution, the analysis of hydration around a
novel water mimicking DNA analogue before its eventual use in experiments
[46], the
interpretation of crystallographic structures of the bc1 complex as
arising from a rotation of its iron-sulphur protein domain [8], and the
prediction of low force stretching in the muscle protein titin that
guided atomic force microscopy and mutation experiments [47].
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