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20022023
most citedCavity as a source of conformational fluctuation and high-energy state: High-pressure NMR study of a cavity-enlarged mutant of T4 lysozyme

44 citations · 92 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 1 cited

Structural transition induced by a local chemical/mechanical perturbation in biomolecules

Fumio Hirata

Structural transition induced by a local conformational change in biomolecules is formulated based on the generalized Langevin theory for the structural fluctuation of a molecule i…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023

Entropy associated with conformation and density fluctuations in biomolecular solutions

Fumio Hirata

Microscopic formula to describe the entropy of biomolecular solutions are derived based on the Gibbs formula of entropy, and the generalized Langevin theory combined with the RISM/…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 1 cited

A theory of chemical Reactions in biomolecules in solution: generalized Langevin mode analysis (GLMA)

Fumio Hirata

The generalized Langevin mode analysis (GLMA) is applied to chemical reactions in biomolecules in solution. The theory sees a chemical reaction in solution as a barrier crossing pr…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022

Generalized Langevin Mode Analysis (GLMA) for Local Density Fluctuation of Water in an Inhomogeneous Field of a Biomolecule

Fumio Hirata

An idea to analyze the fluctuational mode or/and spectrum of water molecules in an inhomogeneous environment around a biomolecule such as protein and DNA is proposed based on the g…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022

Realization of the structural fluctuation of biomolecules in solution: Generalized Langevin Mode Analysis

Masatake Sugita, Fumio Hirata

A new theoretical method, referred to as Generalized Langevin Mode Analysis (GLMA), is proposed to analyze the mode of structural fluctuations of a biomolecule in solution. The met…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 5 cited

Does the second critical-point of water really exist in nature?

Fumio Hirata

In the past decade, a literary phrase "No man's land" has been flooded in the scientific papers. The expression is used to describe a meta-stable region in the phase-diagram that c…