Chelikani, P., Hornak, V., Eilers, M., Reeves, P.J., Smith, S.O., RajBhandary, U.L. and Khorana, H.G.
Role of group-conserved residues in the helical core of b2-adrenergic receptor
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 7027-7032 (2007).

Crocker, E., Eilers, M., Ahuja, S., Hornak, V., Hirshfeld, A., Sheves, M. and Smith, S.O.
Location of Trp265 in metarhodopsin II: Implications for the activation mechanism of the visual receptor rhodopsin
J. Mol. Biol. 357, 163-172 (2006).

Eilers, M., Hornak, V, Smith, S.O. and Konopka, J.B.
Comparison of Class A and D G protein-coupled receptors: Common features in structure and activation
Biochemistry 44, 8959-8975 (2005).

Patel, A.B., Crocker, E., Reeves, P.J., Getmanova, E.V., Eilers, M., Khorana, H.G. and Smith, S.O.
Changes in interhelical hydrogen bonding upon rhodopsin activation
J. Mol. Biol. 347, 803-812 (2005).

Crocker, E., Patel, A.B., Eilers, M., Jayaraman, S., Getmanova, E., Reeves, P.J., Ziliox, M., Khorana, H.G., Sheves, M. and Smith, S.O.
Dipolar assisted rotational resonance NMR of tryptophan and tyrosine in rhodopsin
J. Biomol. NMR. 29, 11-20 (2004).

Liu, W., Eilers, M., Patel, A.B. and Smith, S.O.
Helix Packing Moments Reveal Diversity and Conservation in Membrane Protein Structure
J. Mol. Biol. 337, 713-729 (2004).

Patel, A.B., Crocker, E., Eilers, M., Hirshfeld, A., Sheves, M. and Smith, S.O.
Coupling of retinal isomerization to the activation of rhodopsin
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 10048-10053 (2004).

Lin, J.C., Parrish, W., Eilers, M., Smith, S.O. and Konopka, J.B.
Aromatic residues at the extracellular ends of transmembrane domains 5 and 6 promote ligand activation of the G protein-coupled a-factor receptor
Biochemistry 42, 293-301 (2003).

Eilers, M., Patel, A.B., Liu, W. and Smith, S.O.
Comparison of helix interactions in membrane and soluble a-bundle proteins
Biophys. J. 82, 2720-2736 (2002).

Eilers, M., Ying, W., Reeves, P.J., Khorana, H.G. and Smith, S.O.
Magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance of isotopically labeled rhodopsin
Methods Enzymol. 343, 212-222 (2002).

Parrish, W., Eilers, M., Ying, W. and Konopka, J.B.
The cytoplasmic end of transmembrane domain three regulates the activity of the G protein-coupled a-factor receptor
Genetics 160, 429-443 (2002).

Smith, S.O., Eilers, M., Song, D., Crocker, E., Ying, W., Groesbeek, M., Metz, G., Ziliox, M. and Aimoto, S.
Implications of Threonine Hydrogen Bonding in the Glycophorin A Transmembrane Helix Dimer
Biophys. J. 82, 2476-2486 (2002).

Eilers, M., Shekar, S.C., Shieh, T., Smith, S.O. and Fleming, P.J.
Internal packing of helical membrane proteins
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 5796-5801 (2000).

Zahn, T.J., Eilers, M., Guo, Z.M., Ksebati, M.B., Simon, M., Scholten, J.D., Smith, S.O. and Gibbs, R.A.
Evaluation of isoprenoid conformation in solution and in the active site of protein-farnesyl transferase using carbon-13 labeling in conjunction with solution- and solid-state NMR
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122, 7153-7164 (2000).

Eilers, M., Reeves, P.J., Ying, W., Khorana, H.G. and Smith, S.O.,
Magic angle spinning NMR of the protonated retinylidene Schiff base in rhodopsin:
Expression of 15N-lysine- and 13C-glycine-labeled opsin in a stable cell line
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 487-492 (1999).

Javadpour, M.M., Eilers, M., Groesbeek, M. and Smith, S.O.
Helix Packing in Polytopic Membrane Proteins: Role of Glycine in Transmembrane Helix Association
Biophys. J. 77, 1609-1618 (1999).

Reeves, P.J., Klein-Seetharaman, J., Getmanova, E.V., Eilers, M., Loewen, M.C., Smith, S.O. and Khorana, H.G.
Expression and purification of rhodopsin and its mutants from stable mammalian cell lines: application to NMR studies
Biochem. Soc. Trans. 27, 950-955 (1999).