Akio Kitao

The effects of solvent on the conformation and the collective motions of protein: Normal mode analysis and molecular dynamics simulations of melittin in water and in vacuum

Akio Kitao, Fumio Hirata, Nobuhiro Gō · Chemical Physics · 1991 · 391 citations

Protein Chemistry, Collective Motions, Biochemistry +9

Model-free methods of analyzing domain motions in proteins from simulation: A comparison of normal mode analysis and molecular dynamics simulation of lysozyme

Steven Hayward, Akio Kitao, Herman J. C. Berendsen · Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics · 1997 · 271 citations · Full text

Energy landscape of a native protein: Jumping-among-minima model

Akio Kitao, Steven Hayward, Nobuhiro Gō · Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics · 1998 · 237 citations

Structure of the bacterial flagellar hook and implication for the molecular universal joint mechanism

Fadel A. Samatey, H. Matsunami, Katsumi Imada et al. · Nature · 2004 · 200 citations

Bacterial Flagellar Hook, Protein Assembly, Natural Sciences +7

Effect of Solvent on Collective Motions in Globular Protein

Steven Hayward, Akio Kitao, Fumio Hirata et al. · Journal of Molecular Biology · 1993 · 193 citations

Protein Chemistry, Protein Folding, Macromolecular Machine +3