Publication list

2016

  • Zhaoqian Su and Cristiano L. Dias, Molecular mechanism of protein unfolding by urea, Journal of Molecular Liquids, Accepted for publication (2016).
  • Tomaz Urbic, Sara Nadem and Cristiano L. Dias, Thermodynamic properties of amyloid fibrils in equilibrium, submitted for publication (2016).
  • J.S. Espinoza Ortiz and Cristiano L. Dias, Cooperative model to study fibril formation, in preparation.
  • Sara Nadem and Cristiano L. Dias, Fibril-micelle interactions, in preparation.
  • Zhaoqian Su and Cristiano L. Dias, Atomic mechanism of TMAO on proteins, in preparation.

2015

  • Srinivasa R. Jampani, Farbood Mahmoudinobar, Zhaoqian Su and Cristiano L. Dias, Thermodynamics of Abeta16-21 dissociation from a fibril, accepted for publication, PROTEIN: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics (2015) [pdf - http].
  • Farbood Mahmoudinobar, Cristiano L. Dias*, and Ronen Zangi, Role of side-chain interactions on the formation of alpha-helices in model peptides, Phys. Rev. E 91, 032710 (2015) [pdf - http].

* Corresponding author

2014

  • Cristiano L. Dias and Hue Sun Chan. Pressure-Dependence Properties of Elementary Hydrophobic Interactions: Ramifications for Activation Properties of Protein Folding. J. Phys. Chem. B 118 , 7488 (2014) [pdf - http ].
  • Tomaz Urbic and Cristiano L. Dias. Hydration of non-polar anti-parallel beta-sheets. J. Chem. Phys. 140, 165101 (2014) [pdf - http].
  • Tomaz Urbic and Cristiano L. Dias. Properties of Lennard-Jones dimeric fluid in two dimensions: An integral equation study. J. Chem. Phys. 140, 094703 (2014) [pdf - http].
  • Chitra Narayanan and Cristiano L. Dias. Exploring the free energy landscape of a model beta-hairpin peptide and its isoform.  PROTEIN: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 82, 2394 (2014) [pdf - http].
  • Zhaoqian Su and Cristiano L. Dias. Driving beta-strands into fibrils.  J. Phys. Chem. B 118, 10830 (2014)  [pdf - http].


2013

  • Chitra Narayanan and Cristiano L. Dias. Hydrophobic interactions and hydrogen bonds in beta-sheet formation.  J. Chem. Phys. 139, 115103 (2013),  [pdf - http].
 

2012

  • Cristiano L. Dias. Unifying microscopic mechanism for pressure and cold denaturations of proteins, Physical Review letter 109, 048104 (2012). [pdf - supplemental material]
  • T. Hynninen, C.L. Dias, A. Mkrtchyan, V. Heinonen, M. Karttunen, A.S. Foster, and T. Ala-Nissila. A molecular dynamics implementation of the 3D Mercedes-Benz water model, Computer Physics Communication 183, 363 (2012). [http | pdf]

2011

  • Cristiano L. Dias, Mikko Karttunen and Hue Sun Chan. Hydrophobic interactions in the formation of secondary structures in small peptides, Physical Review E 84, 041931 (2011).  [http | pdf]
  • Cristiano L. Dias, Teemu Hynninen, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Adam S. Foster and Mikko Karttunen. Hydrophobicity within the three-dimensional Mercedes-Benz model: Potential of mean force, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 65106 (2011). [http | pdf]

2010

  • Teemu Hynninen, Vili Heinonen, Cristiano L. Dias, Mikko Karttunen, Adam S. Foster and Tapio Ala-Nissila. Cutting Ice: Nanowire Regelation, Physical Review Letters 105, 086102 (2010). [http | pdf]. See also Physorg.
  • Jirasak Wong-Ekkabut, M. Miettinen, Cristiano L. Dias and Mikko Kartunnen. Static charges cannot drive a continuous flow of water molecules through a carbon nanotube, Nature Nanotechnology 5, 555 (2010). [http | pdf].
  • Cristiano L. Dias, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Jirasak Wong-ekkabut, Ilpo Vattulainen, Martin Grant and Mikko Karttunen. Reply to the comment by Graziano on The hydrophobic effect and its role in cold denaturation, Cryobiology 60, 356 (2010). [http | pdf]
  • Cristiano L. Dias, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Jirasak Wong-ekkabut, Ilpo Vattulainen, Martin Grant and Mikko Karttunen. The hydrophobic effect and its role in cold denaturation. Cryobiology 60, 91 (2010) [http | pdf ]

2009

  • Cristiano L. Dias, Jens Kroger, Daniel Vernon and Martin Grant. Nucleation of cracks in a brittle sheet.  Physical Review E, 80, 066109 (2009)  [http|pdf]
  • Cristiano L. Dias, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Martin Grant and Mikko Karttunen. Three-dimensional "Mercedes-Benz" model for water. J. Chem. Phys. 131, 054505, 2009 [http | pdf ]


2008

  • Xavier Urli, Cristiano L. Dias, Laurent J. Lewis, and Sjoerd Roorda. Point defects in pure amorphous silicon and their role in structural relaxation: A tight-binding molecular-dynamics study. Physical Review B 77, 155204 (2008). [http | pdf ]
  • Cristiano L. Dias, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Mikko Karttunen, Ilpo Vattulainen, and Martin Grant. Microscopic mechanism for cold denaturation.  Physical Review Letters 100, 118101 (2008). [http | pdf ]


 2006

  • Anirban Sain, Cristiano L. Dias, and Martin Grant. Rupture of an extended object: A many-body Kramers calculation. Physical Review E 74, 046111 (2006). [ http | pdf ]
  • C. L. Dias and Martin Grant. Unfolding designable structures. The European Physical Journal B 50, 265 (2006). [ html | pdf ]
  • Cristiano L. Dias and Martin Grant. Designable structures are easy to unfold. Physical Review E 74, 042902 (2006). [ http | pdf ]

2005

  • Cristiano L. Dias, Martin Dube, Fernando Oliveira, and Martin Grant. Scaling in Force Spectroscopy. Physical Review E 72, 011918 (2005). [ http | pdf ]
  • Fernando A. Oliveira, Rafael Morgado, Cristiano Dias, G. George Batrouni, and Alex Hansen. Comment on Nonstationarity Induced by Long-Time Noise Correlations in the Langevin Equation. Physical Review Letters 86, 5839 (2001). [ http | pdf ]


Book Chapter:

Cinesiologia e Biomecanica dos Complexos Articulares -- Isabel de Camargo Neves Sacco e Clarice Tanaka. Editora Guanabara. Capitulo 1 -- Introducao: Clarice Tanaka e Cristiano Dias (2008)