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Reversible B/A Transitions in Single DNA Molecule Immersed in A Water Drop
Alexey K. Mazur
Clarification of the detailed mechanisms involved in the DNA polymorphism is an important challenge for computational molecular biophysics. This paper reports about reversible A/B…
DNA Dynamics in A Water Drop
Alexey K. Mazur
Due to its polyionic character the DNA double helix is stable and biologically active only in salty aqueous media where its charge is compensated by solvent counterions. Monovalent…
Simulated and Experimental Bending Dynamics in DNA with and without A-Tracts
Alexey K. Mazur, Dimitri E. Kamashev
The macroscopic curvature of double helical DNA induced by regularly repeated adenine tracts is well-known but still puzzling. Its physical origin remains controversial even though…
Molecular Dynamics Studies of Sequence-directed Curvature in Bending Locus of Trypanosome Kinetoplast DNA
Alexey K. Mazur
The macroscopic curvature induced in the double helical B-DNA by regularly repeated adenine tracts (A-tracts) plays an exceptional role in structural studies of DNA because this ef…
The Physical Origin of Intrinsic Bends in Double Helical DNA
Alexey K. Mazur
The macroscopic curvature induced in the double helical B-DNA by regularly repeated adenine tracts (A-tracts) is a long known, but still unexplained phenomenon. This effect plays a…
A-Tract Induced DNA Bending is A Local Non-Electrostatic Effect
Alexey K. Mazur
The macroscopic curvature induced in double helical B-DNA by regularly repeated adenine tracts (A-tracts) is a long known, but still unexplained phenomenon. This effect plays a key…