• "Effects of a quantum-mechanically driven two-state gating mode on the diffusion-influenced bimolecular reactions" Y. Jung, C. Hyeon, S. Shin, and S. Lee, J. Chem. Phys. (1997) vol. 107 9864

  • "One-pot Template Synthesis and Properties of a Molecular Bowl: Dodecaaza Macrotetracycle with mu(3)-Oxo and mu(3)-Hydroxo Tricopper(II) Cores" M. Paik Suh, M.Y. Han, J.H.Lee K.S.Min, and C. Hyeon. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (1998) vol. 120 3819-3820

  • "Can energy landscape roughness of proteins and RNA be measured using mechanical unfolding experiments?" C. Hyeon and D. Thirumalai, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2003) vol. 100 10249-10253

  • "Mechanical unfolding of RNA hairpins" C. Hyeon and D. Thirumalai, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2005) vol. 102 6789-6794

  • "Extracting Stacking Interaction Parameters for RNA from the Data Set of Native Structures" R.I. Dima, C. Hyeon, and D. Thirumalai, J. Mol. Biol. (2005) vol. 347 53-69

  • "RNA and Protein Folding: Common Themes and Variations" D. Thirumalai and C. Hyeon, Biochemistry (2005) vol. 44 4957-4970

  • "Persistence Length Changes Dramatically as RNA Folds" G. Caliskan, C. Hyeon, U. Perez-Salas, B.M. Briber, S.A. Woodson, and D. Thirumalai, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2005) vol. 95 268303

  • "Kinetics of interior loop formation in semiflexible chains" C. Hyeon and D. Thirumalai, J. Chem. Phys. (2006) vol. 124 104905

  • "Forced-Unfolding and Force-Quench Refolding of RNA Hairpins" C. Hyeon and D. Thirumalai, Biophys. J. (2006) vol. 90 3410-3427

  • "Pathways and kinetic barriers in mechanical unfolding and refolding of RNA and proteins" C. Hyeon, R.I. Dima, and D. Thirumalai, Structure (2006) vol. 14 1633-1645

  • "Size, Shape, and flexibility of RNA structures" C. Hyeon, R. I. Dima, and D. Thirumalai, J. Chem. Phys. (2006) vol. 125 194905

  • "Dynamics of allosteric transitions in GroEL" C. Hyeon, G.H. Lorimer and D. Thirumalai, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2006) vol. 103 18939-18944 , Supporting materials

  • "Mechanical unfolding of RNA: From hairpins to structures with internal multiloops" C. Hyeon and D. Thirumalai, Biophys. J. (2007) vol. 92 731-743

  • "Internal strain regulates the nucleotide binding site of the kinesin leading head" C. Hyeon and J. N. Onuchic, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2007) vol. 104 2175-2180 , Supporting Info., SI Fig.6, SI Fig.7, SI Fig.8, SI Fig.9

  • "Measuring the energy landscape roughness and the transition state location of biomolecules using single molecule mechanical unfolding experiments" C. Hyeon and D. Thirumalai, J. Phys.:Condens. Matter (2007) vol. 19 113101

  • "Charge density of divalent metal cations determines RNA stability" E. Koculi, C. Hyeon, D. Thirumalai, and S. A. Woodson, J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2007) vol. 129 2676-2682

  • "Stretching Homopolymers" G. Morrison, C. Hyeon, N. M. Toan, B. -Y. Ha and D. Thirumalai, Macromolecules (2007) vol. 40 7343-7353

  • "Mechanical control of the directional stepping dynamics of the kinesin motor" C. Hyeon and J. N. Onuchic, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2007) vol. 104 17382-17387 , Supporting Info.

  • "Revealing the bifurcation in the unfolding pathways of GFP using single molecule experiments and simulations" M. Michkler, R. I. Dima, H. Dietz, C. Hyeon, D. Thirumalai and M. Rief Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2007) vol. 104 20268-20273

  • "Multiple probes are required to explore and control the rugged energy landscape of RNA hairpins" C. Hyeon and D. Thirumalai, J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2008) vol. 130 1538-1539 , SI

  • "Kinetics of loop formation in polymer chains" N. M. Toan, G. Morrison, C. Hyeon and D. Thirumalai, J. Phys. Chem. B (2008) vol. 112 6094-6106

  • "Effects of Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) and Crowding Agents on the stability of RNA hairpins" D. L. Pincus, C. Hyeon and D. Thirumalai, J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2008) vol. 130 7364-7372

  • "Force dependent hopping rates of RNA hairpins can be estimated from accurate measurement of the folding landscapes" C. Hyeon, G. Morrison and D. Thirumalai, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2008) vol. 105 9604-9609, SI

  • "Ligand-induced global transition in the catalytic domain of protein kinase A" C. Hyeon, P. A. Jennings, J. A. Adams and J. N. Onuchic Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2009) vol. 106, 3023-3028 ,SI

  • "Kinesin's Backsteps under Mechanical Load " C. Hyeon, S. Klumpp and J. N. Onuchic Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2009) vol. 11 4899-4910 ,

  • "Metal Ion Dependence of Cooperative Collapse Transitions in RNA " S. Moghaddam, G. Caliskan, S. Chauhan, C. Hyeon, R. M. Briber, D. Thirumalai and S. A. Woodson J. Mol. Biol. (2009) vol. 393, 753-764 ,

  • "Refolding dynamics of stretched biopolymers upon force-quench " C. Hyeon, G. Morrison, D. L. Pincus and D. Thirumalai Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2009) in press ,

  • "Urea destablizes RNA by forming stacking interaction and multiple hydrogen bonds with nucleic acid bases" U. D. Priyakumar, C. Hyeon, D. Thirumalai and A. D. MacKerell J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2009) in press ,


  • Book Chapter
    1. "Coarse-Grained Structure-Based Simulations of Proteins and RNA" Alexander Schug, Changbong Hyeon, and José N. Onuchic, Chapter 9 in Coarse-Graining of Condensed Phase and Biomolecular Systems edited by Gregory A. Voth (2008) CRC Press (Part of the book is scanned in google book. Follow this web link)
    2. "Theory of RNA Folding: From Hairpins to Ribozymes" Devarajan Thirumalai and Changbong Hyeon, Chapter 2 in Non-Protein Coding RNAs edited by Nils G. Walter, Sarah A. Woodson, and Rober T. Batey (2008) Springer Series in Biophysics, Vol. 13 (Part of the book is scanned in google book. Follow this web link)
    3. D.L. Pincus, S.S. Cho, C. Hyeon, D. Thirumalai, "Minimal Models for Protein and RNA: From Folding to Function", Chapter 6 in Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science edited by P. Michael Conn (2008) Academic Press, Vol. 84.
    4. Changbong Hyeon and Jose' N. Onuchic, "Energy balance and Dynamics of Kinesin motors ", Chapter 1 in Proteins : Energy, Heat and Signal Flow edited by D. M. Leitner and J. E. Straub. (2009) CRC Press