| Self-assembly of dendronized perylene bisimides into complex helical columns V Percec, M Peterca, T Tadjiev, X Zeng, G Ungar, P Leowanawat, E Aqad, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 133 (31), 12197-12219, 2011 | 137 | 2011 |
| Implausibility of the vibrational theory of olfaction E Block, S Jang, H Matsunami, S Sekharan, B Dethier, MZ Ertem, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (21), E2766-E2774, 2015 | 113 | 2015 |
| Origin of spectral tuning in rhodopsin—it is not the binding pocket S Sekharan, M Sugihara, V Buss Angewandte Chemie International Edition 46 (1‐2), 269-271, 2007 | 102 | 2007 |
| Structure-based macrocycle design in small-molecule drug discovery and simple metrics to identify opportunities for macrocyclization of small-molecule ligands MD Cummings, S Sekharan Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 62 (15), 6843-6853, 2019 | 99 | 2019 |
| Why 11-cis-Retinal? Why Not 7-cis-, 9-cis-, or 13-cis-Retinal in the Eye? S Sekharan, K Morokuma Journal of the American Chemical Society 133 (47), 19052-19055, 2011 | 90 | 2011 |
| Molecular mechanism of activation of human musk receptors OR5AN1 and OR1A1 by (R)-muscone and diverse other musk-smelling compounds L Ahmed, Y Zhang, E Block, M Buehl, MJ Corr, RA Cormanich, S Gundala, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (17), E3950-E3958, 2018 | 80 | 2018 |
| Columnar packing motifs of functionalized perylene derivatives: Local molecular order despite long-range disorder MR Hansen, R Graf, S Sekharan, D Sebastiani Journal of the American Chemical Society 131 (14), 5251-5256, 2009 | 78 | 2009 |
| Ground and excited states of retinal Schiff base chromophores by multiconfigurational perturbation theory S Sekharan, O Weingart, V Buss Biophysical journal 91 (1), L07-L09, 2006 | 66 | 2006 |
| Activation of OR1A1 suppresses PPAR-γ expression by inducing HES-1 in cultured hepatocytes C Wu, Y Jia, JH Lee, Y Kim, S Sekharan, VS Batista, SJ Lee The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology 64, 75-80, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
| Color vision:“OH-site” rule for seeing red and green S Sekharan, K Katayama, H Kandori, K Morokuma Journal of the American Chemical Society 134 (25), 10706-10712, 2012 | 61 | 2012 |
| QM/MM study of the structure, energy storage, and origin of the bathochromic shift in vertebrate and invertebrate bathorhodopsins S Sekharan, K Morokuma Journal of the American Chemical Society 133 (13), 4734-4737, 2011 | 50 | 2011 |
| The active site of melanopsin: the biological clock photoreceptor S Sekharan, JN Wei, VS Batista Journal of the American Chemical Society 134 (48), 19536-19539, 2012 | 48 | 2012 |
| Photochemistry of Visual Pigment in a Gq Protein‐Coupled Receptor (GPCR)—Insights from Structural and Spectral Tuning Studies on Squid Rhodopsin S Sekharan, A Altun, K Morokuma Chemistry–A European Journal 16 (6), 1744-1749, 2010 | 48 | 2010 |
| Protein Assistance in the Photoisomerization of Rhodopsin and 9-cis-Rhodopsin Insights from Experiment and Theory S Sekharan, M Sugihara, O Weingart, T Okada, V Buss Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (5), 1052-1054, 2007 | 43 | 2007 |
| QM/MM model of the mouse olfactory receptor MOR244-3 validated by site-directed mutagenesis experiments S Sekharan, MZ Ertem, H Zhuang, E Block, H Matsunami, R Zhang, ... Biophysical journal 107 (5), L5-L8, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
| Unusual kinetics of thermal decay of dim-light photoreceptors in vertebrate vision Y Guo, S Sekharan, J Liu, VS Batista, JC Tully, ECY Yan Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (29), 10438-10443, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |
| QM/MM study of dehydro and dihydro β-ionone retinal analogues in squid and bovine rhodopsins: Implications for vision in salamander rhodopsin S Sekharan, A Altun, K Morokuma Journal of the American Chemical Society 132 (45), 15856-15859, 2010 | 34 | 2010 |
| Spectral tuning in halorhodopsin: The chloride pump photoreceptor R Pal, S Sekharan, VS Batista Journal of the American Chemical Society 135 (26), 9624-9627, 2013 | 30 | 2013 |
| Spectral tuning of ultraviolet cone pigments: an interhelical lock mechanism S Sekharan, VL Mooney, I Rivalta, MA Kazmi, M Neitz, J Neitz, TP Sakmar, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 135 (51), 19064-19067, 2013 | 28 | 2013 |
| Computational insights into kinetic hindrance affecting crystallization of stable forms of active pharmaceutical ingredients YA Abramov, P Zhang, Q Zeng, M Yang, Y Liu, S Sekharan Crystal Growth & Design 20 (3), 1512-1525, 2020 | 27 | 2020 |
