activity
20192022
collaborators

5 papers

physics.chem-ph2022

Water Dynamics around T0 vs. R4 of Hemoglobin from Local Hydrophobicity Analysis

Seyedeh Maryam Salehi, Marco Pezzella, Adam Willard +2

The local hydration around tetrameric Hb in its T and R conformational substates is analyzed based on molecular dynamics simulations. Analysis of the local hydrophobicity (…

physics.chem-ph2021

Genesis of Polyatomic Molecules in Dark Clouds: CO Formation on Cold Amorphous Solid Water

Meenu Upadhyay, Marco Pezzella, Markus Meuwly

Understanding the formation of molecules under conditions relevant to interstellar chemistry is fundamental to characterize the chemical evolution of the universe. Using reactive m…

physics.chem-ph2020

Polarizable Multipolar Molecular Dynamics Using Distributed Point Charges

Mike Devereux, Marco Pezzella, Shampa Raghunathan +1

Distributed point charge models (DCM) and their minimal variants (MDCM) have been integrated with tools widely used for condensed-phase simulations, including a virial-based barost…

physics.chem-ph2020

Water Dynamics Around Proteins: T- and R-States of Hemoglobin and Melittin

Marco Pezzella, Krystel El Hage, Michiel J. M. Niesen +4

The water dynamics, as characterized by the local hydrophobicity (LH), is investigated for tetrameric hemoglobin and dimeric melittin. For the T0 to R0 transition in Hb it is found…

physics.chem-ph2019

Formation and Stabilization of Ground and Excited State Singlet O upon Recombination of P Oxygen on Amorphous Solid Water

Marco Pezzella, Debasish Koner, Markus Meuwly

The recombination dynamics of P oxygen atoms on cold amorphous solid water to form triplet and singlet molecular oxygen (O) is followed under conditions representative for…