Most-Read Articles of 2018: Biological Chemistry

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Inhibition of Bacterial Adhesion on Nanotextured Stainless Steel 316L by Electrochemical Etching
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ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng., 2018, 4 (1), pp 90–97
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00544

Early Career Board Announcement
ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng., 2018, 4 (10), pp 3450–3450
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.8b01125

3D Printing of PDMS Improves Its Mechanical and Cell Adhesion Properties
ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng., 2018, 4 (2), pp 682–693
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00646

Isolation and Identification of Proteins Secreted by Cells Cultured within Synthetic Hydrogel-Based Matrices
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ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng., 2018, 4 (3), pp 836–845
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00647

In Vitro Modeling of Mechanics in Cancer Metastasis
This article is part of the Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Approaches to Tumor Modeling special issue.
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ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng., 2018, 4 (2), pp 294–301
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00041

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Role of Interfaces in Two-Dimensional Photocatalyst for Water Splitting
ACS Catal., 2018, 8 (3), pp 2253–2276
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b03437

Facile Ammonia Synthesis from Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction under Ambient Conditions on N-Doped Porous Carbon
ACS Catal., 2018, 8 (2), pp 1186–1191
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b02165

Challenges and Prospects in Solar Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction with Inorganic and Hybrid Nanostructures
ACS Catal., 2018, 8 (4), pp 3602–3635
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b00791

Oxidative Coupling Mechanisms: Current State of Understanding
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ACS Catal., 2018, 8 (2), pp 1161–1172
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b02974

Mechanism of CO2 Reduction at Copper Surfaces: Pathways to C2 Products
ACS Catal., 2018, 8 (2), pp 1490–1499
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b03477

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CRISPR-Mediated Tagging of Endogenous Proteins with a Luminescent Peptide
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ACS Chem. Biol., 2018, 13 (2), pp 467–474
DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00549

Quantitative Live-Cell Kinetic Degradation and Mechanistic Profiling of PROTAC Mode of Action
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ACS Chem. Biol., 2018, 13 (9), pp 2758–2770
DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.8b00692

Seven Year Itch: Pan-Assay Interference Compounds (PAINS) in 2017—Utility and Limitations
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ACS Chem. Biol., 2018, 13 (1), pp 36–44
DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00903

Site-Specific Incorporation of a Thioester Containing Amino Acid into Proteins
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ACS Chem. Biol., 2018, 13 (3), pp 578–581
DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00998

CRISPRi and CRISPRa Screens in Mammalian Cells for Precision Biology and Medicine
This article is part of the Chemical Biology of CRISPR special issue.
ACS Chem. Biol., 2018, 13 (2), pp 406–416
DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00657

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Drug–Target Kinetics in Drug Discovery
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ACS Chem. Neurosci., 2018, 9 (1), pp 29–39
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00185

Neuromicrobiology: How Microbes Influence the Brain
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ACS Chem. Neurosci., 2018, 9 (2), pp 141–150
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00373

Precision Medicine in Pediatric Neurooncology: A Review
This article is part of the Precision Medicine in Brain Cancer special issue.
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ACS Chem. Neurosci., 2018, 9 (1), pp 11–28
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00388

Global Neuroscience: China
ACS Chem. Neurosci., 2018, 9 (2), pp 138–139
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.8b00048

Welcome to the DARK Side: DARK Classics in Chemical Neuroscience
This article is part of the DARK Classics in Chemical Neuroscience special issue.
ACS Chem. Neurosci., 2018, 9 (10), pp 2286–2286
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.8b00528

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Developments in Glycopeptide Antibiotics
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ACS Infect. Dis., 2018, 4 (5), pp 715–735
DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00258

Fragment-Based Screening of a Natural Product Library against 62 Potential Malaria Drug Targets Employing Native Mass Spectrometry
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This article is part of the Drug Discovery for Global Health special issue.
ACS Infect. Dis., 2018, 4 (4), pp 431–444
DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00197

Targeting the Proteostasis Network for Mycobacterial Drug Discovery
This article is part of the Drug Discovery for Global Health special issue.
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ACS Infect. Dis., 2018, 4 (4), pp 478–498
DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00231

The Human Microbiome
This article is part of the The Microbiome special issue.
ACS Infect. Dis., 2018, 4 (1), pp 1–2
DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00248

Total Syntheses of Bulgecins A, B, and C and Their Bactericidal Potentiation of the β-Lactam Antibiotics
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ACS Infect. Dis., 2018, 4 (6), pp 860–867
DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.8b00105

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Discovery of AG-120 (Ivosidenib): A First-in-Class Mutant IDH1 Inhibitor for the Treatment of IDH1 Mutant Cancers
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ACS Med. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9 (4), pp 300–305
DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.7b00421

Investigating the Behavior of Published PAINS Alerts Using a Pharmaceutical Company Data Set
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ACS Med. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9 (8), pp 792–796
DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.8b00097

Discovery of Spiro Oxazolidinediones as Selective, Orally Bioavailable Inhibitors of p300/CBP Histone Acetyltransferases
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ACS Med. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9 (1), pp 28–33
DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.7b00395

Late-Stage Microsomal Oxidation Reduces Drug–Drug Interaction and Identifies Phosphodiesterase 2A Inhibitor PF-06815189
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ACS Med. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9 (2), pp 68–72
DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.7b00343

Strategy for Extending Half-life in Drug Design and Its Significance
This article is part of the Med Chem Tech: Driving Drug Development special issue.
ACS Med. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9 (6), pp 528–533
DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.8b00018

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Serine Integrases: Advancing Synthetic Biology
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ACS Synth. Biol., 2018, 7 (2), pp 299–310
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00308

Rational Design of Mini-Cas9 for Transcriptional Activation
ACS Synth. Biol., 2018, 7 (4), pp 978–985
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00404

Biosynthesis of Orthogonal Molecules Using Ferredoxin and Ferredoxin-NADP+ Reductase Systems Enables Genetically Encoded PhyB Optogenetics
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ACS Synth. Biol., 2018, 7 (2), pp 706–717
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00413

Multiplexed CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing and Gene Regulation Using Csy4 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
ACS Synth. Biol., 2018, 7 (1), pp 10–15
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00259

Cameo: A Python Library for Computer Aided Metabolic Engineering and Optimization of Cell Factories
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ACS Synth. Biol., 2018, 7 (4), pp 1163–1166
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00423

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Introducing the “Future of Biochemistry” Special Issue
Biochemistry, 2018, 57 (1), pp 1–8
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b01259

New Opportunities Created by Single-Particle Cryo-EM: The Mapping of Conformational Space
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Biochemistry, 2018, 57 (6), pp 888–888
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00064

Extracellular Electron Transfer by the Gram-Positive Bacterium Enterococcus faecalis
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Biochemistry, 2018, 57 (30), pp 4597–4603
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00600

Targeting the C481S Ibrutinib-Resistance Mutation in Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase Using PROTAC-Mediated Degradation
Biochemistry, 2018, 57 (26), pp 3564–3575
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00391

Messenger RNA Structure Regulates Translation Initiation: A Mechanism Exploited from Bacteria to Humans
Biochemistry, 2018, 57 (26), pp 3537–3539
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00395

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Practical Considerations, Challenges, and Limitations of Bioconjugation via Azide–Alkyne Cycloaddition
This article is part of the Bioconjugate Materials in Vaccines and Immunotherapies special issue.
Bioconjugate Chem., 2018, 29 (3), pp 686–701
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00633

Imaging PD-L1 Expression with ImmunoPET
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Bioconjugate Chem., 2018, 29 (1), pp 96–103
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00631

Toll-like Receptor Agonist Conjugation: A Chemical Perspective
This article is part of the Bioconjugate Materials in Vaccines and Immunotherapies special issue.
Bioconjugate Chem., 2018, 29 (3), pp 587–603
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00808

Silicon Rhodamine-Based Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probe for γ-Glutamyltransferase
Bioconjugate Chem., 2018, 29 (2), pp 241–244
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00776

Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of Prostate Cancer with Ga-68-Labeled Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptor Agonist BBN7–14 and Antagonist RM26
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Bioconjugate Chem., 2018, 29 (2), pp 410–419
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00726

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Polymers at the Interface with Biology
Biomacromolecules, 2018, 19 (8), pp 3151–3162
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.8b01029

Influence of Poly(styrene-co-maleic acid) Copolymer Structure on the Properties and Self-Assembly of SMALP Nanodiscs
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Biomacromolecules, 2018, 19 (3), pp 761–772
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.7b01539

Clinical Evidence for Use of a Noninvasive Biosensor for Tear Glucose as an Alternative to Painful Finger-Prick for Diabetes Management Utilizing a Biopolymer Coating
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Biomacromolecules, 2018, 19 (11), pp 4504–4511
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.8b01429

Mussel-Inspired Self-Healing Double-Cross-Linked Hydrogels by Controlled Combination of Metal Coordination and Covalent Cross-Linking
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Biomacromolecules, 2018, 19 (5), pp 1402–1409
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.7b01249

Injectable Hydrogel with Slow Degradability Composed of Gelatin and Hyaluronic Acid Cross-Linked by Schiff’s Base Formation
Biomacromolecules, 2018, 19 (2), pp 288–297
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.7b01133

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Inhibition of Oral Pathogens Adhesion to Human Gingival Fibroblasts by Wine Polyphenols Alone and in Combination with an Oral Probiotic
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J. Agric. Food Chem., 2018, 66 (9), pp 2071–2082
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b05466

Time-Resolved Gravimetric Method To Assess Degassing of Roasted Coffee
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J. Agric. Food Chem., 2018, 66 (21), pp 5293–5300
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b03310

Transcriptome Analysis of Hepatopancreas from the Cr (VI)-Stimulated Mantis Shrimp (Oratosquilla oratoria) by Illumina Paired-End Sequencing: Assembly, Annotation, and Expression Analysis
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J. Agric. Food Chem., 2018, 66 (11), pp 2598–2606
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b05074

Yeast Metabolites of Glycated Amino Acids in Beer
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J. Agric. Food Chem., 2018, 66 (28), pp 7451–7460
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b01329

Heterologous and High Production of Ergothioneine in Escherichia coli
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J. Agric. Food Chem., 2018, 66 (5), pp 1191–1196
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b04924

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Where Does the Density Localize in the Solid State? Divergent Behavior for Hybrids and DFT+U
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J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2018, 14 (2), pp 670–683
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01061

Estimation of Drug-Target Residence Times by τ-Random Acceleration Molecular Dynamics Simulations
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J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2018, 14 (7), pp 3859–3869
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00230

Force Field Parametrization of Metal Ions from Statistical Learning Techniques
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J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2018, 14 (1), pp 255–273
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00779

Machine Learning Adaptive Basis Sets for Efficient Large Scale Density Functional Theory Simulation
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J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2018, 14 (8), pp 4168–4175
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00378

Avoiding False Positive Conclusions in Molecular Simulation: The Importance of Replicas
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J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2018, 14 (12), pp 6127–6138
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00391

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Protac-Induced Protein Degradation in Drug Discovery: Breaking the Rules or Just Making New Ones?
This article is part of the Inducing Protein Degradation as a Therapeutic Strategy special issue.
J. Med. Chem., 2018, 61 (2), pp 444–452
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b01272

Discovery of GDC-0853: A Potent, Selective, and Noncovalent Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor in Early Clinical Development
J. Med. Chem., 2018, 61 (6), pp 2227–2245
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b01712

Discovery of a Small-Molecule Degrader of Bromodomain and Extra-Terminal (BET) Proteins with Picomolar Cellular Potencies and Capable of Achieving Tumor Regression
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J. Med. Chem., 2018, 61 (2), pp 462–481
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b01816

Recent Advances in Structure-Based Drug Design Targeting Class A G Protein-Coupled Receptors Utilizing Crystal Structures and Computational Simulations
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J. Med. Chem., 2018, 61 (1), pp 1–46
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b01453

Inducing Protein Degradation as a Therapeutic Strategy
This article is part of the Inducing Protein Degradation as a Therapeutic Strategy special issue.
J. Med. Chem., 2018, 61 (2), pp 403–404
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b01333

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Bioactivity-Based Molecular Networking for the Discovery of Drug Leads in Natural Product Bioassay-Guided Fractionation
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J. Nat. Prod., 2018, 81 (4), pp 758–767
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b00737

Quest for Efficacious Next-Generation Taxoid Anticancer Agents and Their Tumor-Targeted Delivery
This article is part of the Special Issue in Honor of Susan Horwitz special issue.
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J. Nat. Prod., 2018, 81 (3), pp 703–721
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b01012

Jizanpeptins, Cyanobacterial Protease Inhibitors from a Symploca sp. Cyanobacterium Collected in the Red Sea
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J. Nat. Prod., 2018, 81 (6), pp 1417–1425
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.8b00117

Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents: Properties, Applications, and Perspectives
This article is part of the Special Issue in Honor of Susan Horwitz special issue.
J. Nat. Prod., 2018, 81 (3), pp 679–690
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b00945

Keikipukalides, Furanocembrane Diterpenes from the Antarctic Deep Sea Octocoral Plumarella delicatissima
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J. Nat. Prod., 2018, 81 (1), pp 117–123
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b00732

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The Bend+Libration Combination Band Is an Intrinsic, Collective, and Strongly Solute-Dependent Reporter on the Hydrogen Bonding Network of Liquid Water
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J. Phys. Chem. B, 2018, 122 (9), pp 2587–2599
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b09641

Virtual Issue on Physical Chemistry in South Korea
J. Phys. Chem. B, 2018, 122 (35), pp 8315–8316
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b07245

Dynamics of Long-Distance Hydrogen-Bond Networks in Photosystem II
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J. Phys. Chem. B, 2018, 122 (17), pp 4625–4641
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b00649

Exploring GPCR–Lipid Interactions by Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Excitements, Challenges, and the Way Forward
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J. Phys. Chem. B, 2018, 122 (22), pp 5727–5737
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b01657

Structure from Dynamics: Vibrational Dynamics of Interfacial Water as a Probe of Aqueous Heterogeneity
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J. Phys. Chem. B, 2018, 122 (14), pp 3667–3679
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10574

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Accelerating Chemical Discovery with Machine Learning: Simulated Evolution of Spin Crossover Complexes with an Artificial Neural Network
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J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9 (5), pp 1064–1071
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00170

Zero-Dimensional Cesium Lead Halides: History, Properties, and Challenges
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J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9 (9), pp 2326–2337
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00572

Atomic Layer Etching: Rethinking the Art of Etch
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J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9 (16), pp 4814–4821
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00997

Molecular Insight into the Slipperiness of Ice
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J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9 (11), pp 2838–2842
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01188

Lead-Free Perovskite Nanocrystals for Light-Emitting Devices
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9 (7), pp 1573–1583
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00301

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Performance Evaluation of the Q Exactive HF-X for Shotgun Proteomics
J. Proteome Res., 2018, 17 (1), pp 727–738
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.7b00602

Deep Learning Accurately Predicts Estrogen Receptor Status in Breast Cancer Metabolomics Data
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J. Proteome Res., 2018, 17 (1), pp 337–347
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.7b00595

Polylysine is a Proteostasis Network-Engaging Structural Determinant
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J. Proteome Res., 2018, 17 (5), pp 1967–1977
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.8b00108

Extending the Compatibility of the SP3 Paramagnetic Bead Processing Approach for Proteomics
J. Proteome Res., 2018, 17 (4), pp 1730–1740
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.7b00913

Comparison of Internal Standard Approaches for SRM Analysis of Alpha-Synuclein in Cerebrospinal Fluid
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J. Proteome Res., 2018, 17 (1), pp 516–523
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.7b00660

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Oral Administration and Detection of a Near-Infrared Molecular Imaging Agent in an Orthotopic Mouse Model for Breast Cancer Screening
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Mol. Pharmaceutics, 2018, 15 (5), pp 1746–1754
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00994

Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery, Biomarker Development, and Generation of Novel Chemistry
This article is part of the Deep Learning for Drug Discovery and Biomarker Development special issue.
Mol. Pharmaceutics, 2018, 15 (10), pp 4311–4313
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.8b00930

Entangled Conditional Adversarial Autoencoder for de Novo Drug Discovery
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Mol. Pharmaceutics, 2018, 15 (10), pp 4398–4405
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.8b00839

Adversarial Threshold Neural Computer for Molecular de Novo Design
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Mol. Pharmaceutics, 2018, 15 (10), pp 4386–4397
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b01137

3D Molecular Representations Based on the Wave Transform for Convolutional Neural Networks
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Mol. Pharmaceutics, 2018, 15 (10), pp 4378–4385
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b01134