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q-bio.BM2014★ 29 cited
Arginine-Phosphate Salt Bridges Between Histones and DNA: Intermolecular Actuators that Control Nucleosome Architecture
Tahir I. Yusufaly, Yun Li, Gautam Singh +1
Structural bioinformatics and van der Waals density functional theory are combined to investigate the mechanochemical impact of a major class of histone-DNA interactions, namely th…
q-bio.BM2013★ 26 cited
5-Methylation of Cytosine in CG:CG Base-Pair Steps: A Physicochemical Mechanism for the Epigenetic Control of DNA Nanomechanics
Tahir I. Yusufaly, Yun Li, Wilma K. Olson
Van der Waals density functional theory is integrated with analysis of a non-redundant set of protein-DNA crystal structures from the Nucleic Acid Database to study the stacking en…