Single molecule force spectroscopy study of the alteration of structural fluctuations of α-synuclein due to a pathogenic mutation, K Neupane, A Solanki, MT Woodside, In preparation.

Observing diffusive dynamics within the transition states in biomolecular folding, K Neupane, N Hoffer, MT Woodside, In preparation.

Complex dynamics under tension in a high-efficiency frameshift stimulatory structure, MTJ Halma, DB Ritchie, TR Cappellano, K Neupane,MT Woodside, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 116, 19500 (2019).

Measuring the average shape of transition paths during the foldign of a single biological molecule, N Hoffer, K Neupane,MT Woodside, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 116, 8125 (2019).

Transition path properties of folding reactions in the limit of small barriers, Andrew GT Pyo, NA Hoffer, K Neupane, and MT Woodside, J. Chem. Phys. 149, 115101 (2018).

Testing kinetic identities involving transition-path properties using single-molecule folding trajectories, K Neupane, NA Hoffer, and MT Woodside, J. Phys. Chem. B 122, 11095 (2018).

Measuring the local velocity along transition paths duing the folding of single biological molecules, K Neupane, NA Hoffer, and MT Woodside, Phys. Rev. Lett 121, 018102 (2018).

Direct measurements of sequence-dependent transition path times and conformational diffusion in DNA duplex formation, K Neupane, F Wang, MT Woodside, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 114, 1329 (2017).

Quantifying instrumental artifacts in folding kinetics measured by single-molecule force spectroscopy, K Neupane and MT Woodside, Biophys. J. 111, 283 (2016).

Pharmacological chaperone reshapes the energy landscape for folding and aggregation of the prion protein, K Neupane*, AN Gupta*, N Rezajooei, LM Cortez, VL Sim, & MT Woodside, Nature Communications 7, 12058 (2016).

Folding trajectories of a single protein molecule reveal protein folding is a one-dimensional diffusive process, K Neupane, AP Manuel, J Lambert, MT Woodside, Nature Physics 12, 700 (2016).

Direct observation of transition paths during the folding of protein and nucleic acids, K Neupane, DAN Foster, D Dee, H Yu, F Wang, MT Woodside, Science 352, 239 (2016).

Transition-path probability as a test of reaction-coordinate quality reveals DNA hairpin folding is a one dimensional diffusive process, K Neupane, AP Manuel, J Lambert, MT Woodside, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 6, 1005 (2015).

Single-molecule force spectroscopy of rapidly-fluctuating, marginally-stable structures in the intrinsically-disordered protein α-synuclein, K Neupane*, A Solanki*, MT Woodside, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 158103(2014).

Diverse Metastable Structures Formed by Small Oligomers of α-Synuclein Probed by Force Spectroscopy, K Neupane, A Solanki, I Sosova, M Belov, MT Woodside, PLoS One 9, e86495 (2014). supporting information

Single-molecule assays for investigating protein misfolding and aggregation, A Hoffmann, K Neupane, MT Woodside, PhysChemChemPhys 15, 7934 (2013).

Energy landscape analysis of native folding of the prion protein yields the diffusion constant, transition path time, and rates, H Yu, AN Gupta, X Liu, K Neupane, AM Brigley, I Sosova, MT Woodside, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109, 14452 (2012).

Transition path times for nucleic acid folding determined from energy landscape analysis of single-molecule trajectories, K Neupane, DB Ritchie, H Yu, DAN Foster, F Wang, MT Woodside, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 068102 (2012). supplementary information

Editor's choice, and Transition path times for DNA and RNA folding from force spectroscopy, G Hummer & WA Eaton, Physics 5, 87 (2012).

Direct observation of multiple misfolding pathways in a single prion protein molecule, H Yu, X Lu, K Neupane, AN Gupta, AM Brigley, A Solanki, I Sosova, MT Woodside,  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109, 5283 (2012). supplementary information

Experimental validation of free-energy-landscape reconstruction from non-equilibrium single-molecule force spectroscopy measurements, AN Gupta, A Vincent, K Neupane, H Yu, F Wang, MT Woodside, Nature Physics 7, 631 (2011). supplementary information

Single-molecule force spectroscopy of the add adenine riboswitch relates folding to regulatory mechanism, K Neupane, H Yu, DAN Foster, F Wang, MT Woodside, Nucleic Acids Res. 39, 7677 (2011). supplementary information

Elasticity, viscosity, and orientational fluctuations of a lyotropic chromonic nematic liquid crystal disodium cromoglycate, S Zhou*, K Neupane*, YuA Nastishin, AR Baldwin, S Shiyanovskii, OD Lavrentovich, and S Sprunt, Soft Matter 10, 6571 (2014).

Elasticity and viscosity of a lyotropic chromonic nematic studied with dynamic light scattering, YuA Nastishin, K Neupane, AR Baldwin, OD Lavrentovich, and S Sprunt, (2009). e-LCC:http://www.e-lc.org/docs/2008_07_15_15_23_06

Reprint:arXiv:1006.3589 (2009).

Light scattering studies of orientational order in liquid crystalline tetrapodes and lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals, K Neupane, PhD Dissertation, Department of Physics, Kent State University, (2009).

Observation of a possible tetrahedratic phase in a bent-core liquid crystal, D Wiant*, K Neupane*, S Sharma, N Pradhan, JT Gleeson, A Jákli, G Iannacchione, and S Sprunt. Phys. Rev. E 77, 061701 (2008).

High field  magneto-optical studies of liquid crystals and complex fluids, SN Sprunt, JT Gleeson, A Jákli, D Wiant, K Neupane, MAG LAB REPORTS 14, 38 (2007).

Dynamic light scattering study of biaxial ordering in a thermotropic liquid crystal, K. Neupane, SW Kang, S Sharma, D Carney, T Meyer, GH Mehl, DW Allender, S Kumar, and S Sprunt.  Phys. Rev. Lett. 97,207802 (2006).

Critical behavior at the isotropic-to-nematic phase transition in a bent-core liquid crystal, D Wiant, S Stojadinovic, K Neupane, S Sharma, K Fodor-Csorba, A Jákli, JT Gleeson, and S Sprunt. Phys. Rev. E (R) 73, 030703 (2006).

One nanosecond photon correlation spectroscopy on smectic liquid crystal films, S Sharma, K Neupane, A Adorjan, A R Baldwin, and S Sprunt. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 067801 (2005).

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