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Publications @ Colorado State University

Deposition of Metal - Organic Frameworks within a Porous Protein Crystal Superstructure DeRoo JB, Rojina S, Jones AA, Rajendran D, Thai JE, Tuttle RR, Snow CD, Reynolds MM (2025) Journal of Materials Chemistry B.

Automation of Protein Crystallization Scaleup via Opentrons-2 Liquid Handling DeRoo JB, Jones AA, Slaughter CK, Ahr TW, Stroup SM, Thompson GB, Snow CD. (2025) SLAS Technology

Characterization of Guest DNA Transport and Adsorption within Host Porous Protein Crystals Chen S, Stuart JD, Munsky B, Snow CD. (2024) Langmuir.

Tuning chemical DNA ligation within DNA crystals and protein-DNA co-crystals Orun AR, Slaughter CK, Shields ET, Vajapayajula A, Jones S, Shrestha R, Snow CD (2024) ACS Nanoscience Au.

PAbFold: Linear Antibody Epitope Prediction using AlphaFold2 DeRoo J, Terry JS, Zhao N, Stasevich TJ, Snow CD, Geiss BJ (2024) eLife.

Porous protein crystals: synthesis and applications Jones AA, Snow CD (2024) Chem. Commun.

Ligand presentation inside protein crystal nanopores: Tunable interfacial adhesion noncovalently modulates cell attachment Wang D, Hedayati M, Stuart JD, Madruga LYC, Popat KC, Snow CD, Kipper MP (2023) Materials Today Nano.

Modular Protein-DNA Cocrystals as Precise, Programmable Assembly Scaffolds Orun, AR, Shields, ET, Dmytriw S, Vajapayajula A, Slaughter CK, and Snow CD (2023) ACS Nano.

Textile Functionalization by Porous Protein Crystal Conjugation and Guest Molecule Loading Hartje LF, Andales DA, Gintner LP, Johnson LB, Li YV, Snow CD (2023) Crystals.

Scalable Combinatorial Assembly of Synthetic DNA for Tracking Applications Stuart JD, Wickenkamp NR, Davis KA, Meyer C, Kading RC, Snow CD (2023) Int. J. Mol. Sci.

Mosquito Tagging Using DNA-Barcoded Nanoporous Protein Microcrystals Stuart JD, Hartman DA, Gray LI, Jones AA, Wickenkamp NR, Hirt C, Safira A, Regas AR, Kondash TM, Yates ML, Driga S, Snow CD, Kading RC (2022) PNAS Nexus

Stabilizing DNA-Protein Co-Crystals via Intra-Crystal Chemical Ligation of the DNA Ward AR, Dmytriw S, Vajapayajula A, Snow CD, (2021) Crystals.

Measuring interactions of DNA with nanoporous protein crystals by atomic force microscopy Wang D, Stuart JD, Jones AA, Snow CD, Kipper MJ (2021) Nanoscale.

Porous protein crystals as scaffolds for structural biology Ward AR, Snow CD (2020) Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol.

Porous protein crystals as scaffolds for enzyme immobilization Kowalski AE*, Johnson LB*, Dierl HK, Park S, Huber TR, Snow CD (2019) Biomater. Sci.

Advancing biomarkers for anaerobic o-xylene biodegradation via metagenomic analysis of a methanogenic consortium Rossmassler K, Snow CD, Taggart D, Brown C, De Long SK (2019) Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol.

Protein crystal based materials for nanoscale applications in medicine and biotechnology Hartje LF, Snow CD (2018) WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology

Synthesis of luminescent lanthanide complexes within crosslinked protein crystal matrices Zhang Y, Zhang X, Tang J, Snow CD, Sun G, Kowalski AE, Hartje LF, Zhao N, Wanga Y, Belfiore LA. (2018) Cryst. Eng. Comm.

Characterizing the Cytocompatibility of Various Cross-Linking Chemistries for the Production of Biostable Large-Pore Protein Crystal Materials Hartje LF, Bui HT, Andales DA, James SP, Huber TR, Snow CD. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. (2018)

Installing Guest Molecules at Specific Sites within Scaffold Protein Crystals Huber TR, McPherson EC, Keating CE, Snow CD. Bioconj. Chem. (2018) 29(1):17-22

Adsorbtion-Coupled Diffusion of Gold Nanoclusters Within a Large-Pore Protein Crystal Scaffold Hartje LF, Munsky B, Ni TW, Ackerson CJ, Snow CD. J Phys. Chem. B (2017) 121(32):7652-7659

Programmed Assembly of Host-Guest Protein Crystals Huber TR, Hartje LF, McPherson EC, Kowalski AE, Snow CD. Small (2016) 13(7):1602703

		Gold Nanoparticle Capture Within Protein Crystal Scaffolds Kowalski AE, Huber TR, Ni TW, Hartje LF, Appel KL, Yost JW, Ackerson CJ, Snow CD. RSC Nanoscale (2016) 8(25):12693-6.
		A Structure-Based Design Protocol for Optimizing Combinatorial Protein Libraries Lunt MW, Snow CD. Methods Mol. Biol. (2016) 1414 99-138.
		Optimizing Shape Complementarity Scoring Parameters for Recognition of Authentic Crystal Packing Arrangements Bennett JA, Snow CD. Cryst. Growth Des. (2016)
		Characterization of supercharged cellulase activity and stability in ionic liquids Johnson LB, Park S, Gintner LP, Snow CD. J. Mol. Catalysis. B: Enzymatic (2016) 132: 84-90
		Molecular dynamics simulations of cellulase homologs in aqueous 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride Johnson LB, Snow CD. J. Biomol. Struct. Dyn. (2016)
		Discriminating between stabilizing and destabilizing protein design mutations via recombination and simulation Johnson LB, Gintner LP, Park S, Snow CD. P.E.D.S. (2015) 28(8): 259-267.
		Methods for Library-Scale Computational Protein Design Johnson LB, Huber TR, Snow CD. Methods Mol. Biol. (2014) 1216 129-59.

Publications @ Caltech

		Comparison of random mutagenesis and semi-rational designed libraries for improved cytochrome P450 BM3-catalyzed hydroxylation of small alkanes Mike Chen, Christopher Snow, Christina Vizcarra, Stephen Mayo, and Frances Arnold. Protein Eng. Des. Sel. (2012)
		Engineered ketol-acid reductoisomerase and alcohol dehydrogenase enable anaerobic 2-methypropan-1-ol production at theoretical yield in Escherichia coli Sabine Bastian, Xiang Liu, Joseph Meyerowitz, Christopher Snow, Mike Chen, Frances Arnold. Metab. Eng. (2011), 13, 345-352.
		Polarizable Protein Packing Albert Ng and Christopher Snow J. Comp. Chem. (2011), 32, 1334-1344.
		Combinatorial alanine substitution enables rapid optimization of cytochrome P450BM3 for selective hydroxylation of large substrates Jared Lewis, Simone Mantovani, Yu Fu, Christopher Snow, Russell Komor, Chi-Huey Wong, and Frances Arnold. Chem. BioChem. (2010), 11, 2502-2505.
		Efficient screening of fungal cello-biohydrolase class I enzymes for thermo-stabilizing sequence blocks by SCHEMA structure-guided recombination Pete Heinzelman, Russell Komor, Arvind Kanaan, Philip Romero, Xinlin Yu, Shannon Mohler, Christopher Snow and Frances Arnold. Protein Engineering, Design and Selection (2010) dio: 10.1093/protein/gzq063
		SCHEMA Recombination of a Fungal Cellulase Uncovers a Single Mutation that Contributes Markedly to Stability Pete Heinzelman, Christopher D. Snow, Matthew A. Smith, Xinlin Yu, Arbind Kannan, Kevin Boulware, Alan Villalobos, Sridhar Govindarajan, Jeremy Minshull, and Frances H. Arnold. J. Biol. Chem. (2009) 284:26229-26233.
		A Family of Thermostable Fungal Cellulases Created by Structure-Guided Recombination Pete Heinzelman, Christopher D. Snow, Indira Wu, Catherine Nguyen, Alan Villalobos, Sridhar Govindarajanm Jeremy Minshull and Frances H. Arnold. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2009) 106(14):5610-5615.
		SHARPEN: Systematic Hierarchical Algorithms for Rotamers and Proteins on an Extended Network Ilya V. Loksha, James R. Maiolo III, Cheng Hong, Albert Ng, and Christopher D. Snow. Journal of Computational Chemistry (2009) 30(6):999-1005.
		Evolutionary history of the emergence of a specialized cytochrome P450 propane mono-oxygenase Rudi Fasan, Yergalem T. Meharenna, Christopher D. Snow, Thomas L. Poulos, and Frances H. Arnold. Journal of Molecular Biology (2008) 383(5), 1069-1080.
		Hunting for predictive computational drug discovery models Christopher D. Snow. Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy (2008) 6(3)
		A diverse family of thermostable cytochrome P450s created by recombination of stabilizing fragments Yougen Li, Alan D. Drummond, Andrew M. Sawayama, Christopher D. Snow, Jesse D. Bloom, Frances H. Arnold. Nature Biotechnology (2007)

Publications @ Stanford

		Non-bulk-like Solvent Behavior in the Ribosome Exit Tunnel Del Lucent, Christopher Snow, Colin Aitken, Eric Sorin, Sung-Joo Lee & Vijay S. Pande. PLoS Comp. Bio. (2010), 6, e1000963.
		Side-chain recognition and gating in the ribosome exit tunnel Paula Petrone, Christopher D. Snow, Del Lucent & Vijay S. Pande. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2008) 105(43), 16549-16554.
		Electric Fields at the Active Site of an Enzyme: Direct Comparison of Experiment with Theory Ian Suydam, Christopher D. Snow, Vijay S. Pande & Stephen G. Boxer. Science (2006)
		Kinetic Definition of Protein Folding Transition State Ensembles and Reaction Coordinates Christopher D. Snow, Young Min Rhee, & Vijay S. Pande. Biophysical Journal (2006)
		Direct calculation of the binding free energies of FKBP ligands Hideaki Fujitani, Yoshiaki Tanida, Masakatsu Ito, Guha Jayachandran, Christopher D. Snow, Michael R. Shirts, Eric J. Sorin, & Vijay S. Pande. Journal of Chemical Physics (2005) 123(8),084108
		How well can simulation predict kinetics and thermodynamics of protein folding? Christopher D. Snow, Eric Sorin, Young Min Rhee, & Vijay S. Pande. Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure
		Dimerization of the p53 oligomerization domain: Identification of a folding nucleus by molecular dynamics simulations Lillian T. Chong, Christopher D. Snow, Young Min Rhee, & Vijay S. Pande. Journal of Molecular Biology (2004) 345(4), 869-78.
		Trp zipper folding kinetics by molecular dynamics and temperature-jump spectroscopy Christopher D. Snow, Linlin Qiu, Deguo Du, Feng Gai, Stephen J. Hagen, & Vijay S. Pande. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2004) 101(12), 4077-4082.
		Using path sampling to build better Markovian state models: Predicting the folding rate and mechanism of a tryptophan zipper beta hairpin Nina Singhal, Christopher D. Snow, and Vijay S. Pande. The Journal of Chemical Physics (2004) 121(1) 415-425.
		Absolute comparison of simulated and experimental protein-folding dynamics Christopher D. Snow, Houbi Nguyen, Vijay S. Pande, Martin Gruebele. Nature AOP, published online 20 October 2002; doi:10.1038/nature01160. Nature (2002) 420(6911), 102-106. Up Front: Science Behind the Screens HHMI Bulletin - M. Mitchell Waldrop
		The Trp Cage: Folding Kinetics and Unfolded State Topology via Molecular Dynamics Simulations Christopher D. Snow, Bojan Zagrovic, Vijay S. Pande. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2002) 124(49), 14548-14549. Native-like Mean Structure in the Unfolded Ensemble of Small Proteins Bojan Zagrovic, Christopher D. Snow, Siraj Khaliq, Michael R. Shirts, Vijay S. Pande. J. Mol. Biol. (2002) 323(1), 153-164.
		Simulation of folding of a small alpha-helical protein in atomistic detail using worldwide-distributed computing Bojan Zagrovic, Christopher D. Snow, Michael R. Shirts, Vijay S. Pande. J. Mol. Biol. (2002) 323(5), 927-937. Atomistic protein folding simulations on the submillisecond time scale using worldwide distributed computing Vijay S. Pande, Ian Baker, Jarrod Chapman, Sidney Elmer, Stefan M. Larson, Young Min Rhee, Michael R. Shirts, Christopher D. Snow, Eric J. Sorin, Bojan Zagrovic. Biopolymers (2002) 68(1): 91-109.
		Folding@Home and Genome@Home: Using distributed computing to tackle previously intractable problems in computational biology Stefan M. Larson, Christopher D. Snow, Michael R. Shirts, Vijay S. Pande. Computational Genomics, Richard Grant, editor, Horizon Press

Publications @ MIT

Surface Salt Bridges, Double-Mutant Cycles, and Protein Stability: an Experimental and Computational Analysis of the Interaction of the Asp 23 Side Chain with the N-Terminus of the N-Terminal Domain of the Ribosomal Protein L9 Donna L. Luisi, Christopher D. Snow, Jo-Jin Lin, Zachary S. Hendsch, Bruce Tidor, Daniel P. Raleigh. Biochemistry (2003) 42(23), 7050-7060.