Peer reviewed Publications

· Samson A. O., and Levitt M., "Normal modes expose binding sites", 2010, PNAS under revision.

· Samson A. O., and Levitt M., "Normal modes of prion proteins: From native to infectious particle", 2010, Biochemistry in press.

· Samson A. O., and Levitt M., " Protein segment finder: an online search engine for segment motifs in the PDB", 2009, Nucleic Acid Research, 37 (Database issue), D224-8.

· Samson A. O., and Levitt M., "Inhibition mechanism of the acetylcholine receptor by α-neurotoxins as revealed by normal mode dynamics", 2008, Biochemistry, 47, 4065-4070.

· Rosen O., Samson A.O., and Anglister J., "Correlated mutations at gp120 positions 322 and 440: implications for gp120 structure", 2008, Proteins, 71, 1066-70. (equal contribution as R.O.)

· Rosen O., Samson A. O., Sharon M., Zolla-Pazner S., and Anglister J., "Response to Matters Arising ", 2006, Structure, 14, 649-651 (equal contribution as R.O.)

· Samson A. O., and Anglister J., "2D-measurement of proton T_1ρ relaxation in unlabeled proteins: α-bungarotoxin complex with acetylcholine receptor peptide", 2005, Biochemistry, 44, 10926-10934.

· Biron Z., Khare S., Samson A., Naider F., and Anglister J. "A monomeric 3₁₀-helix is formed in water by a 13-residue peptide representing the neutralizing determinant of HIV-1 on gp41" , 2002, Biochemistry, 41, 12687-12696.

· Yassin L., Samson A.O., Halevi S., Eshel M., and Treinin M., "Mutations in the extracellular domain and in the membrane spanning domains interfere with nicotinic acetylcholine receptor maturation", 2002, Biochemistry, 41, 12329-12335.

· Samson A.O., Scherf. T., Eisenstein M., Chill J., and Anglister J., "The mechanism for acetylcholine receptor inhibition by a-neurotoxins and species-specific resistance to α-bungarotoxin revealed by NMR", 2002, Neuron, 35, 319-332.

· Yao Y., Wang J., Viroonchatapan N., Rothe E., Samson A.O., Chill J., Anglister J., and Wang Z. "Yeast expression and NMR analysis of the extracellular domain of muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α-subunit", 2002, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277(15), 12613-12621

· Samson A.O., Chill J., Rodriguez E., Scherf T., and Anglister J., "NMR mapping and secondary structure determination of the major acetylcholine receptor α-subunit determinant interacting with α-bungarotoxin", 2001, Biochemistry, 40, 5464-5473.

Book chapters

· Samson A. O., Scherf T., Eisenstein M., Chill J. H., and Anglister J., "The mechanism for acetylcholine receptor inhibition by -neurotoxins and species specific resistance to α-bungarotoxin revealed by NMR" (2004) Cholinergic mechanisms, function and dysfunction, p.45-54, Taylor & Francis group, UK.

· Samson A. O., Scherf T., Eisenstein M., and Anglister J., "Interactions of toxins with cholinergic proteins", (2004) Cholinesterases in the second millenium: Biomolecular and Pathological Aspects, p.285-93, Diseņo e Impresiones Ltda. press. Pucon, Chile.