Single-Molecule Biophysics
Wei Min, Liang Jiang, Ji Yu, S. C. Kou, Hong Qian, and X. Sunney Xie. Nonequilibrium Steady State of Nanometric Biochemical System: Determine Thermodynamic Driving Force from Single Enzyme Turnover Time Traces. Nano Letters (2005) submitted.
Wei Min, X. Sunney Xie. Barrier Crossing with a Power-Law Friction Kernel: Dispersed Kinetics and Dynamic Disorder of Biochemical Reactions. Physical Review E (2005) submitted.
Brian English, Wei Min, Antoine van Oijen, Kang Taek Lee, Guobin Luo, Hongye Sun, Binny Cherayil, S. C. Kou, X. Sunney Xie. Ever-Fluctuating Single Enzyme Molecule: Michaelis-Menten Equation Revisited. Nature (2005) submitted.
Pallavi Debnath, Wei Min, Sunney Xie, Binny J. Cherayil. Multiple Time Scale Dynamics of Distance Fluctuations in a Semiflexible Polymer: a One-Dimensional Generalized Langevin Equation Treatment. Journal of Chemical Physics in press (2005).
Wei Min, Brian P. English, Guobin Luo, Binny J. Cherayil, S. C. Kou, and X. Sunney Xie. Fluctuating Enzymes: Lessons from Single-Molecule Studies. Accounts of Chemical Research. in press (2005). (Review Article)
S. C. Kou, Binny J. Cherayil, Wei Min, Brian P. English, X. Sunney Xie. Single-Molecule Michaelis-Menten Equations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109, 19068-19081 (2005). [PDF] (Feature Article, Cover Page)
Wei Min, Guobin Luo, Binny J. Cherayil, S. C. Kou, and X. Sunney Xie. Observation of a Power Law Memory Kernel for Fluctuations within a Single Protein Molecule. Physical Review Letters, 94, 198302 (2005). [PDF] (Selected by and appeared on Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research)
Parity Violation and Homochirality of Biomolecules
Wenqing Wang, Wei Min, Yan Gong.
Temperature-induced Phase Transitions in Chiral Amino Acids: Search of Spontaneous Parity-Breaking and Restoration. Acta Phys.-Chim. Sin., 2005, 21, 1186-1194 (2005). [PDF] (Review Article)Wenqing Wang, Wei Min, Changfei Zhu, Fang Yi. Temperature-dependent ultrasonic study on parity-violating phase transitions of D- and L-alanine single crystals. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 5, 4000-4003 (2003). [PDF]
Wenqing Wang, Wei Min, Zhi Liang, Liying Wang, Lei Chen, Feng Deng. NMR and Parity Violation: Low-Temperature Dependence in 1H CRAMPS & 13C CP/MAS ssNMR Spectra of Alanine Enantiomer, Biophysical Chemistry, 103, 289-298 (2003). [PDF]
Wenqing Wang, Wei Min, Fan Bai, Lin Sun, Fang Yi, Zheming Wang, Chunhua Yan, Yongming Ni, Zhongxian Zhao. Temperature Dependent Magnetic Susceptibilities Study on Parity-Violating Phase Transition of D- and L- Alanine Crystals, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 13, 2427-2432 (2002). [PDF]
Wening Wang, Lin Sun, Wei Min, Zheming Wang. A Debate on the Parity-Violating Energy Difference of D- and L- Alanine, Acta Phys.-Chim. Sin., 18, 871-877 (2002).
Electron Transfer Reaction Theory in Organic Conjugated Systems
Wei Min and Lin Sun. Direct Observation of Structure Transition of Donor-Acceptor Labeled Peptides: Temperature Dependence of Fluorescence Quenching Kinetics, Protein and Peptide Letters, 10, 43-51 (2003).
Wei Min and Lin Sun. Internal Reorganization Energy Contributed by Torsional Motion in Electron Transfer Reaction between Biphenyl and Biphenyl Anion Radical, Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 20, 963-967 (2002).
Wei Min and Lin Sun. Solvent Reorganization Energy of Organic Conjugated Systems in Electron Transfer Reactions, Acta Phys.-Chim. Sin., 17, 924-930 (2001).
Conference Proceedings
Wei Min, Guobin Luo, Binny J. Cherayil, Samuel C. Kou, and X. Sunney Xie. Observation of a power law memory kernel for distance fluctuation within a single protein molecule. Proceedings of SPIE (Fluctuations and Noise in Biological, Biophysical, and Biomedical Systems III) 5841, 194-204 (2005).