2 papers
physics.bio-ph2019
Strongly bent double-stranded DNA: reconciling theory and experiment
Aleksander V. Drozdetski, Abhishek Mukhopadhyay, Alexey V. Onufriev
The strong bending of polymers is poorly understood. We propose a general quantitative framework of polymer bending that includes both the weak and strong bending regimes on the sa…
q-bio.BM2016
Multi-shell model of ion-induced nucleic acid condensation
Igor S. Tolokh, Aleksander Drozdetski, Lois Pollack +2
We present a semi-quantitative model of condensation of short nucleic acid (NA) duplexes induced by tri-valent cobalt(III) hexammine (CoHex) ions. The model is based on partitionin…