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20242026
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10 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Designing DNA nanostar hydrogels with programmable degradation and antibody release

Giorgia Palombo, Christine A. Merrick, Jennifer Harnett +3

DNA nanostar (DNAns) hydrogels are promising materials for \textit{in vivo} applications, including tissue regeneration and drug and antibody delivery. However, a systematic and qu…

cond-mat.soft2026

NANOG assembles into self-limiting aging micelles that drive a sol-gel transition and modulate DNA dynamics

Amandine Hong-Minh, Yair Augusto Gutierrez Fosado, Abbie Guild +4

Proteins and nucleic acids form non-Newtonian liquids with complex rheological properties that contribute to their function in vivo. Here we investigate the rheology of the transcr…

cond-mat.soft2026

Rheology and Programmable Gelation of DNA Origami Polymer Tadpoles

Jennifer Harnett, Saminathan Ramakrishnan, Alice L. B. Pyne +2

DNA origami is a powerful method to achieve nanoscale folded structures. Despite rapid improvements in folding and purification methods, DNA origami objects are still often produce…

cond-mat.soft2026

Yeast condensin acts as a transient intermolecular crosslinker in entangled DNA

Filippo Conforto, Antonio Valdes, Willem Vanderlinden +1

Structural-Maintenance-of-Chromosome (SMC) complexes such as condensins organise the folding of chromosomes. However, their role in modulating the entanglement of DNA and chromatin…

physics.bio-ph2025

Binding Kinetics Oppositely Regulates type II Topoisomerase Relaxation and Decatenation Activities

Cleis Battaglia, Filippo Conforto, Yair Augusto Gutierrez Fosado +4

Type II Topoisomerases (topo II) are critical to simplify genome topology during transcription and replication. They identify topological problems and resolve them by passing a dou…

cond-mat.soft2025

Modulation of DNA rheology by a transcription factor that forms aging microgels

Amandine Hong-Minh, Yair Augusto Gutiérrez Fosado, Abbie Guild +4

Proteins and nucleic acids form non-Newtonian liquids with complex rheological properties that contribute to their function in vivo. Here we investigate the rheology of the transcr…