Prof. Lu Zhang

Email：luzhang@fjirsm.ac.cn  

Tel.：86-591-63173256  

Research Interests： 

Molecular dynamics simulation and functional conformational changes of condensed phase complex system; gene transcription mechanism; energy and electron transfer paths of photosynthesis system; molecular force field 

Publications:  

1. Feng, Y., Zhang, L. (co-first), Wu, S., Liu, Z., Gao, X., Zhang, X., Liu, M., Liu, J., Huang, X., Wang, W., “Conformational Dynamics of apo-GlnBP Revealed by Experimental and Computational Analysis”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55 (45), 13990–13994 (2016)  

2. Zhang, L., Pardo-Avila, F., Unarta, C. I., Cheung, P.-H. P., Wang, G., Wang, D., and Huang, X., “Elucidation of the Dynamics of Transcription Elongation by RNA Polymerase II using Kinetic Network Models”, Acc. Chem. Res. 49 (4), 687–694 (2016)  

3. Zhang, L., Silva, D.-A., Pardo-Avila, F., Wang, D., Huang, X., “Structural Model of RNA Polymerase II Elongation Complex with Complete Transcription Bubble Reveals NTP Entry Routes”, PLoS. Comp. Bio. 11, e1004354 (2015)  

4. Zhang, L., Silva, D.-A., Yue, A., Zhang, H., Yan, Y.J., Huang, X., “Dynamic Protein Conformations Preferentially Drive Energy Transfer along Active Chain of the Photosystem-II Reaction Center”, Nature Communications 5, 4170 (2014)  

5. Zhang, L., Silva, D.-A., Yan, Y.J., Huang, X., “Force Field Development for Cofactors in the Photosystem II”, J. Comput. Chem. 33 (25), 1969–1980 (2012)