Mei Hong (chemist)

Mei Hong (born 1970) is a Chinese-American biophysical chemist and professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[3] Hong's ssNMR studies have provided insights into the proton-conduction mechanism of this channel, by quantifying the proton transfer rates and equilibria between water and the proton-selective histidine residue.

[4][5] She showed that the antiviral drug amantadine inhibits proton conduction by direct occlusion of the channel pore.

[6] She determined the cholesterol-binding structure of the M2 protein, which sheds light on how cholesterol mediates M2's membrane scission function.

[15] She showed that the peptide hormone glucagon fibrillizes into an antiparallel hydrogen-bonded β-sheet with two coexisting molecular conformations.