Amir Bitran

University of California, Berkeley — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

5h-index117citations17works0.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Protein Structure and Dynamics(11), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms(11), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology(5), Enzyme Structure and Function(4), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions(3)

Publications17 total

BPS2026 – Toward a detailed molecular picture of co-translational folding during real-time translation
Biophysical Journal·2026
Cotranslational protein folding through non-native structural intermediates
Science Advances·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Cotranslational Protein Folding Through Non-Native Structural Intermediates
2025Open Access
The critical role of co-translational folding: An evolutionary and biophysical perspective
Current Opinion in Systems Biology·2023· 5 cited
Co-translational formation of disulfides guides folding of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain
Biophysical Journal·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Systematic conformation-to-phenotype mapping via limited deep sequencing of proteins
Molecular Cell·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Cotranslational formation of disulfides guides folding of the SARS COV-2 receptor binding domain
2022Open Access
Systematic conformation-to-phenotype mapping via limited deep-sequencing of proteins
arXiv (Cornell University)·2022Open Access
Systematic conformation-to-phenotype mapping via limited deep-sequencing of proteins
2022Open Access
Systematic Conformation-to-Phenotype Mapping via Limited Deep-Sequencing of Proteins
SSRN Electronic Journal·2022Open Access
Validation of DBFOLD: An efficient algorithm for computing folding pathways of complex proteins
PLoS Computational Biology·2020· 28 citedOpen Access
DBFOLD: An efficient algorithm for computing folding pathways of complex proteins
2020Open Access
Cotranslational folding allows misfolding-prone proteins to circumvent deep kinetic traps
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2020· 62 citedOpen Access
Analyzed data
Figshare·2020Open Access
Co-translational folding allows misfolding-prone proteins to circumvent deep kinetic traps
2019· 1 citedOpen Access
Adaptive trust in internal models alleviates trade-offs in biophysical inference of the environment
APS March Meeting Abstracts·2018
Mechanisms of fast and stringent search in homologous pairing of double-stranded DNA
PLoS Computational Biology·2017· 7 citedOpen Access

Frequent Co-authors

Eugene I. Shakhnovich(14), William M. Jacobs(6), Eugene Serebryany(6), Kibum Park(6), Victor Y. Zhao(4), Sunia A. Trauger(4), Bogdan Budnik(4), Xiadi Zhai(3), Ekaterina Samatova(2), Marina V. Rodnina(2), Wei-Yin Chiang(1), Erel Levine(1), Mara Prentiss(1), Shaojie Wang(1), Siyu Wang(1), Ofer Kimchi(1), Mirna Kramar(1), Amanda Parker(1), Ching-Hao Wang(1), Gopal K. Pattanayak(1)