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physics.bio-ph2023

Bind-and-bend model for DNA looping

Michael Liaofan Liu, Daniel W. Oo, Ryan B. McMillan +1

DNA looping is important in DNA condensation and regulation. One method for forming a DNA loop, thought to be used by the condensing agent protamine, is bind-and-bend. In bind-and-…

physics.bio-ph2021★ 3 cited

DNA toroids form via a flower intermediate

Ryan B. McMillan, Hilary Bediako, Luka M. Devenica +3

DNA in sperm cells must undergo an extreme compaction to almost crystalline packing levels. To produce this dense packing, DNA is condensed by protamine, a positively charged prote…