Chaya Rapp
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Yeshiva University
United States of America
Biography
Chaya Rapp has been a member of the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Stern College since 1999. She received her Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from Columbia University, and continued as an adjunct research scientist there until 2006. Currently, she teaches General Chemistry and Physical Chemistry and is involved in the advisement of pre-health students. Her research interests involve using a range of computational methods such as molecular mechanics, quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics and docking to address problems related to protein structure and function.
Research Interest
Research Interests: Predicting product length in isprenoid synthase enzymes in collaboration with the Enzyme Function Initiative Consortium, Comparison of the structural effects of phosphorylation and sulfation , Identifying the determinants of specificity in methyl-lysine binding proteins.
Publications
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Rapp C, Klerman H, Levine E, McClendon C L (2013) Hydrogen Bond Strengths in Phosphorylated and Sulfated Amino Acid Residues. PLoS ONE 8: 57804.
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Rapp C,Kalyanaraman C, Schiffmiller A, Schoenbrun EL, Jacobson MP (2011) A Molecular Mechanics Approach to Modeling Protein-Ligand Interactions:Relative Binding Affinities in Congeneric Series. J Chemical Information Modeling 51: 2082–2089.
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Rapp C,Kalyanaraman C, Schonbrun C, Jacobson MP, Huang N (2009) Automated Site Preparation in Physics-Based Rescoring of Receptor Ligand Complexes. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 77: 52-61.
