PUBLICATIONS

Articles in journals

L. Saiz and J. M. G. Vilar, Ab initio thermodynamic modeling of distal multisite transcription regulation, Nucleic Acids Research, 30, 726-731 (2008).

L. Saiz and J. M. G. Vilar, Multilevel deconstruction of the in vivo behavior of looped DNA-protein complexes, PLoS One, 2(4): e355. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000355 (2007).

S. Vemparala, L. Saiz, R. G. Eckenhoff, and M. L. Klein, Partitioning of anesthetics into a lipid bilayer and their interaction with membrane-bound peptide bundles, Biophys. J., 91, 2815-2825 (2006).

J. M. G. Vilar and L. Saiz, Multiprotein DNA looping, Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 238103 (2006).

L. Saiz and J. M. G. Vilar, DNA looping: the consequences and its control, Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol., 16, 344-350 (2006).

L. Saiz and J. M. G. Vilar, Stochastic dynamics of macromolecular-assembly networks, Nature/EMBO Molecular Systems Biology, 2, doi:10.1038/msb4100061 (2006).

Leonor Saiz, J. Miguel Rubi, and Jose M.G. Vilar, Inferring the in vivo looping properties of DNA, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 102, 17642-17645 (2005).

Jose M.G. Vilar and Leonor Saiz, DNA looping in gene regulation: From the assembly of macromolecular complexes to the control of transcriptional noise, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 15, 136-144 (2005).

Leonor Saiz and M.L. Klein, The transmembrane domain of the acetylcholine receptor: Insights from simulations on synthetic peptide models, Biophys. J., 88, 959-970 (2005).

M. Pickholz, Leonor Saiz, and M.L. Klein, Concentration effects of volatile anesthetics on the properties of model membranes: A coarse-grain approach, Biophys. J., 88, 1524-1534 (2005).

Leonor Saiz, S. Bandyopadhyay, and M.L. Klein, Effect of the pore region of a transmembrane ion-channel on the physical properties of a simple membrane, J. Phys. Chem. B, 108, 2608-2613 (2004).

L. Koubi, Leonor Saiz, M. Tarek, D. Scharf, and M.L. Klein, Influence of anesthetic and nonimmobilizer molecules on the physical properties of a polyunsaturated lipid bilayer, J. Phys. Chem. B 107, 14500-14508 (2003). (Abstract)

Leonor Saiz, S. Bandyopadhyay, and M.L. Klein, Towards an understanding of complex biological membranes from atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, Bioscience Reports 22, 151-173 (2002). (Abstract)

Leonor Saiz and M.L. Klein, Computer simulation studies of model biological membranes, Accounts of Chemical Research 35, 482-489 (2002). (Abstract)

E. Guardia, J. Marti, J.A. Padro, Leonor Saiz, and A.V. Komolkin, Dynamics in hydrogen bonded liquids: water and alcohols, J. Mol. Liq. 96-97, 3-17 (2002). (Abstract)

Leonor Saiz and M.L. Klein, Electrostatic interactions in a neutral model phospholipid bilayer by molecular dynamics simulations, J. Chem. Phys. 116, 3052-3057 (2002). (Abstract) This work appears also in the Membrane Biophysics section of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research (Vir. J. Bio. Phys. Res. 3, 18 (2002)).

Leonor Saiz and M.L. Klein, Influence of highly polyunsaturated lipid acyl chains of biomembranes on the NMR order parameters, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 7381-7387 (2001). (Abstract)

Leonor Saiz and M.L. Klein, Structural properties of a highly polyunsaturated lipid bilayer from molecular dynamics simulations, Biophys. J. 81, 204-216 (2001). (Abstract) This work appears also on the cover of the July 2001 issue of the Biophys. J.

Leonor Saiz, J. M. G. Vilar, and J. Miguel Rubi, Field-induced force-suppression in ferromagnetic colloids, Physica A 293, 51-58 (2001). (Abstract)

Leonor Saiz, J.A. Padro, and E. Guardia, Structure of liquid ethylene glycol: A molecular dynamics simulation study with different force fields, J. Chem. Phys. 114, 3187-3199 (2001). (Abstract)

Leonor Saiz, E. Guardia, and J.A. Padro, Dielectric properties of liquid ethanol. A computer simulation study, J. Chem. Phys. 113, 2814-2822 (2000). (Abstract)

Leonor Saiz, J.A. Padro, and E. Guardia, Dynamics and hydrogen bonding in liquid ethanol, Mol. Phys. 97, 897-905 (1999). (Abstract)

J.A. Padro, Leonor Saiz, and E. Guardia, Hydrogen bonding in liquid alcohols: A computer simulation study, J. Molec. Structure 416, 243-248 (1997). (Abstract)

Leonor Saiz, J.A. Padro, and E. Guardia, Structure and dynamics of liquid ethanol,
J. Phys. Chem. B 101, 78-86 (1997). (Abstract)