Publications + Preprints

Publications from Graduate Studies

  1. 10Molecular Mechanism of Mitochondrial Complex I Disruption by m. 14484T> C Underlying Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy bioRxiv
    P Ajmera, D Guion, S Barnes, AA Sadun, AN Alexandrova | bioRxiv, 2026.01. 28.701874, 2026
  2. 9A protein-based model of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase exhibits tunable covalency across cluster oxidation and ligand-bound states
    LC Lewis, P Badve, IP Vaca, P Ajmera, Y Lee, AN Alexandrova, KK Meier, ... | Chemical Science, 2026
  3. 8Designing an Artificial Metalloenzyme for Re-based CO2 Photoreduction ChemRxiv
    P Ajmera, L Farley, N Minnetian, R King, H Jayasekara, S Chaturvedi, ... | ChemRxiv 2025 (1210), 2025
  4. 7PyCPET─Computing Heterogeneous 3D Protein Electric Fields and Their Dynamics
    P Ajmera, S Vargas, SS Chaturvedi, M Hennefarth, AN Alexandrova | Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 21 (8), 4299-4308, 2025
  5. 6Distinct Electric Fields Enable Common Catalytic Function in Structurally Diverse Enzymes
    SS Chaturvedi, A Goswami, J Qian, A Petersen, P Ajmera, ... | Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (35), 32225-32237, 2025
  6. 5Methods for theoretical treatment of local fields in proteins and enzymes
    ME Eberhart, AN Alexandrova, P Ajmera, D Bím, SS Chaturvedi, S Vargas, ... | Chemical Reviews 125 (7), 3772-3813, 2025
  7. 4Directed Evolution of Protoglobin Optimizes the Enzyme Electric Field
    SS Chaturvedi, S Vargas, P Ajmera, AN Alexandrova | Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024
  8. 3Coenzyme Q10 trapping in mitochondrial complex I underlies Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy
    JT Fuller III, S Barnes, LA Sadun, P Ajmera, AN Alexandrova, AA Sadun | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (39), e2304884120, 2023

Papers before graduate studies

  1. 2CS-annotate: a tool for using NMR chemical shifts to annotate RNA structure
    K Zhang, K Abdallah, P Ajmera, K Finos, A Looka, J Mekhael, AT Frank | Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 61 (4), 1545-1549, 2021
  2. 1Dynamic competition between a ligand and transcription factor NusA governs riboswitch-mediated transcription regulation
    A Chauvier, P Ajmera, R Yadav, NG Walter | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (47), e2109026118, 2021