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  1. Knowns and unknowns in the Davydov model for energy transfer in proteins

    Article • Low Temperature Physics, December 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  2. Statistical Evidence for a Helical Nascent Chain

    Article • Biomolecules, February 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  3. The VES KM: a pathway for protein folding in vivo

    Article • Pure and Applied Chemistry, December 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  4. Protein Folding in Vivo: From Anfinsen Back to Levinthal

    Article • December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  5. Exploring the Levinthal limit in protein folding

    Article • Journal of Biological Physics, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  6. Protein conformational changes are driven by the decay of quantum vibrational excited states

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  7. Mobile localized solutions for an electron in lattices with dispersive and non-dispersive phonons

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  8. Electron Transfer and Tunneling from Donor to Acceptor in Anharmonic Crystal Lattices

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  9. The Amide I Band of Crystalline Acetanilide: Old Data Under New Light

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  10. What is the shape of the distribution of protein conformations at equilibrium?

    Article • Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  11. A kinetic mechanism for in vivo protein folding

    Article • Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  12. The temperature dependent amide I band of crystalline acetanilide

    Article • Physics Letters A, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  13. Dynamic Quantum-mechanical Effects of Vibrational Excitations on Protein Conformation

    Article • Current Physical Chemistry, January 2012, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  14. Quartic lattice interactions, soliton-like excitations, and electron pairing in one-dimensional anharmonic crystals

    Article • International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, December 2011, Wiley

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  15. Erratum: Mixed quantum-classical dynamics of an amide-I vibrational excitation in a proteinα-helix [Phys. Rev. B82, 174308 (2010)]

    Article • Physical Review B, October 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  16. On the possibility of electric transport mediated by long living intrinsic localized solectron modes

    Article • The European Physical Journal B, April 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  17. Electron pairing in one-dimensional anharmonic crystal lattices

    Article • International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, March 2011, Wiley

    Larissa Brizhik, Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  18. The VES hypothesis and protein misfolding

    Article • Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, December 2010, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  19. Mixed quantum-classical dynamics of an amide-I vibrational excitation in a proteinα-helix

    Article • Physical Review B, November 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  20. Are the native states of proteins kinetic traps?

    Article • Molecular Physics, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  21. The Davydov/Scott Model for Energy Storage and Transport in Proteins

    Article • Journal of Biological Physics, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  22. Influence of the sign of the coupling on the temperature dependence of optical properties of one-dimensional exciton models

    Article • Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, September 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  23. Proteins multi-funnel energy landscape and misfolding diseases

    Article • Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, January 2008, Wiley

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  24. Dynamics of the Davydov-Scott monomer in a thermal bath: Comparison of the full quantum and semiclassical approaches

    Article • Physical Review E, July 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  25. Dynamics of a nonconserving Davydov monomer

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  26. Influence of the nonlinearity and dipole strength on the amide I band of protein α-helices

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, December 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  27. Why are proteins with glutamine- and asparagine-rich regions associated with protein misfolding diseases?

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, December 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  28. Dynamical two electron states in a Hubbard-Davydov model

    Article • The European Physical Journal B, November 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John Chris Eilbeck, Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  29. A reduced set of exact equations of motion for a non-number-conserving Hamiltonian

    Article • Physics Letters A, September 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  30. Comment on “Improvement of the Davydov theory of bioenergy transport in protein molecular systems”

    Article • August 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  31. Polaron dynamics and Peierls–Nabarro barrier in a discrete molecular chain

    Article • Synthetic Metals, March 2000, Elsevier

    Larissa Brizhik, Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  32. Interplay between dispersive and non-dispersive modes in the polaron problem

    Article • Physics Letters A, February 2000, Elsevier

    Professor John Chris Eilbeck, Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  33. Effect of long range and anharmonicity in the minimum energy states of the Davydov-Scott model

    Article • Physics Letters A, December 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  34. Article • Journal of Biological Physics, January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  35. The Davydov Hamiltonian leads to stochastic energy transfer in proteins

    Article • Physics Letters A, December 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  36. Dynamics of a mixed quantum-classical system at finite temperature

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), March 1996, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  37. Conformation and dynamics of ethylated DNA

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions, January 1995, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  38. Conformation and dynamics of alkylated bases within DNA: effect of methyl rotation

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions, January 1995, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  39. Two Reasons Why the Davydov Soliton May Be Thermally Stable After All

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 1994, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  40. Thermal stability of nonlinear structures: A Gibbs analysis of the semiclassical system

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter, September 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  41. Adenine·Methylthymine Base-pairs Enhance Non-uniformity in DNA Helices

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, May 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  42. Thermal stability of extended nonlinear structures related to the Davydov soliton

    Article • April 1994, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  43. Comparison of DNA duplexes with and without O 4-methylthymine: nanosecond molecular dynamics simulations

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions, January 1994, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  44. DNA Structure, Hydration and Dynamics

    Article • International Journal of Radiation Biology, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  45. Flexibility and curvature of DNA duplexes containing O4-methylthymine: implications for DNA repair

    Article • Carcinogenesis, January 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  46. Finite temperature simulations of the semiclassical Davydov model

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, September 1993, Elsevier

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  47. Conformation and flexibility of oligonucleotides containing O 6-methylguanine: a molecular dynamics study

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions, January 1993, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  48. Mechanism of thermal destabilization of the Davydov soliton

    Article • Physical Review A, March 1992, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  49. Classical and quantum analysis of chaos in the discrete self-trapping equation

    Article • July 1990, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  50. A New Sampling Scheme for Path Integral Calculations

    Article • Physica Scripta, January 1990, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  51. Computer Simulation of Interfacial Fluctuation Phenomena

    Article • Physica Scripta, January 1990, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  52. Electron-Benzene and Benzene-Benzene Potentials for Simulation of an Excess Electron in Liquid Benzene

    Article • Physica Scripta, January 1990, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  53. Comment on ‘‘Self-trapping on a dimer: Time-dependent solutions of a discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation’’

    Article • May 1988, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  54. Temperature effects on the Davydov soliton

    Article • February 1988, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro

  55. Protein folding

    Article • Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Leonor Cruzeiro