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    Special issue: Multiscale simulations of DNA from electrons to nucleosomes

    This editorial for Volume 16, Issue 3 of Biophysical Reviews highlights the three-dimensional structural and dynamic information encoded in DNA sequences and introduces the topics covered in this special issue of...

    John H. Maddocks, Pablo D. Dans, Thomas H. Cheatham III in Biophysical Reviews (2024)

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    MD-DATA: the legacy of the ABC Consortium

    The ABC Consortium has been generating nucleic-acids MD trajectories for more than 20 years. This brief comment highlights the importance of this data for the field, which triggered a number of critical studie...

    Adam Hospital, Modesto Orozco in Biophysical Reviews (2024)

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    Molecular strip** underpins derepression of a toxin–antitoxin system

    Transcription factors control gene expression; among these, transcriptional repressors must liberate the promoter for derepression to occur. Toxin–antitoxin (TA) modules are bacterial elements that autoregulat...

    Grzegorz J. Grabe, Rachel T. Giorgio in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2024)

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    An open call for contributions to a special issue of Biophysical Reviews focused on multiscale simulations of DNA from electrons to nucleosomes

    Wilma K. Olson, John H. Maddocks, Pablo D. Dans in Biophysical Reviews (2023)

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    Deciphering the mechanical code of the genome and epigenome

    Diverse DNA-deforming processes are impacted by the local mechanical and structural properties of DNA, which in turn depend on local sequence and epigenetic modifications. Deciphering this mechanical code (tha...

    Aakash Basu, Dmitriy G. Bobrovnikov, Basilio Cieza in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2022)

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    MiOS, an integrated imaging and computational strategy to model gene folding with nucleosome resolution

    The linear sequence of DNA provides invaluable information about genes and their regulatory elements along chromosomes. However, to fully understand gene function and regulation, we need to dissect how genes p...

    Maria Victoria Neguembor, Juan Pablo Arcon in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2022)

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    Sequence-dependent structural properties of B-DNA: what have we learned in 40 years?

    The structure of B-DNA, the physiological form of the DNA molecule, has been a central topic in biology, chemistry and physics. Far from uniform and rigid, the double helix was revealed as a flexible and struc...

    Gabriela da Rosa, Leandro Grille, Victoria Calzada, Katya Ahmad in Biophysical Reviews (2021)

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    Visualizing phosphodiester-bond hydrolysis by an endonuclease

    Different catalytic steps of endonuclease I-DmoI are captured crystallographically to allow direct observation of the generation of a DNA double-strand break. A third metal ion enters the active site and has a...

    Rafael Molina, Stefano Stella, Pilar Redondo in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2015)