Papers:

1. Jinyuan Hu, Jie Wang Xiaonan Zhu, Raymond S. Tu, Vikas Nanda,Fei Xu*. Design strategies to tune the structural and mechanical properties of synthetic collagen hydrogenls. Biomacromolecules, 2021, 3440-3450.

   

2. Tiantian Sun, Shumin Qiang, Cheng Lu*, Fei Xu*. Composition-dependent energetic contribution of complex salt bridges to collagen stability. Biopysical Journal, 2021, 120, 1-8.

   

3. Hongning Zheng, Cheng Lu, Jun Lan, Shilong Fan, Vikas Nanda, Fei Xu*. How electrostatic networks modulate specificity and stability of collagen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018, 115, 6207-6212.

   

4. Hongning Zheng, Han Liu, Jinyuan Hu, Fei Xu*. Using a collagen heterotrimer to screen for cation-Π interactions to stablize triple helices. Chemical Physics Letters, 2019, 715, 77-83.

   

5. Hongning Zheng, Han Liu, Jinyuan Hu, Fei Xu*. Stabilizing effects of pairwise salt bidges between acidic and basic residues in a collagen heterotrimer. Chemical Physics Letters, 2018, 713, 253-258.

   

6. Yingnan Li, Haiquan Yang, Fei Xu*. Identifying and engineering a critical amino acid residue to enhance the catalytic efficiency of Pseudomonas sp. methyl parathion hydrolase. Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins, 2018, 102, 6537-6545.

   

7. Fei Xu*, Hongning Zheng, Nicolas Clauvelin, Xiang-Jun Lu, Wilma K. Olson, Vikas Nanda*. Parallels between DNA and collagen-comparing elastic models of the double and triple helix. Scientific Reports, 2017, 12802.

   

Before 2015:

1. Fei Xu, I. John Khan, Kenneth McGuinne, Avanish S. Parmar, Teresita Silva, N. Sanjeeva Murthy, Vikas Nanda*. Self-assembly of left- and right-handed molecular screws. Journal of American Chemical Society, 2013, 135, 50, 18762-18765.
2. Fei Xu, Ji Li, Vikas Jain, Raymond S. Tu, Qingrong Huang, Vikas Nanda*. Compositional control of higher order assembly using synthetic collagen peptides. Journal of American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 1, 47-50.
3. Fei Xu, Sohail Zahid, Teresita Silva, Vikas Nanda*. Computational design of a collagen A:B:C-type heterotrimer. Journal of American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 39, 15260-15263.
4. Fei Xu, Teresita Silva, Mihir Joshi, Sohail Zahid, Vikas Nanda*. Circular permutation directs orthogonal assembly in complex collagen peptide mixtures. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2013, 288, 31616-31623.
5. Fei Xu, Andrew V. Colasanti, Yun Li, Wilma K. Olson*. Long-range effects of histone point mutations on DNA remodeling revealed from computational analyses of SIN-mutant nucleosome structures. Nucleic Acids Research, 2010, 38, 6872-82.
6. Fei Xu, Lei Zhang, Ronald L. Koder, Vikas Nanda*. De Novo self-assembling collgen heterotrimers using explicit positive and negative design. Biochemistry, 2010, 49, 11, 2307-2316.