3 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2024
On the strength of underscreening
Andreas Härtel, Roland Kjellander
This paper constitutes a presentation of work in progress at a discussion session of the conference Dense ionic fluids Faraday Discussion, 8-10 July 2024, London, and is published…
cond-mat.soft2024
Electric field of DNA in solution: who is in charge?
Jonathan G. Hedley, Kush Coshic, Aleksei Aksimentiev +1
In solution, DNA is a highly charged macromolecule which bears a unit of negative charge on each phosphate of its sugar-phosphate backbone. Although partially compensated by counte…
physics.bio-ph2024
Nonlocal Structural Effects of Water on DNA Homology Recognition
Ehud Haimov, Jonathan G. Hedley, Alexei A. Kornyshev
The mechanism behind mutual recognition of homologous DNA sequences prior to genetic recombination is one of the remaining puzzles in molecular biology. Leading models of homology…