Torque Spectroscopy of DNA: Base-Pair Stability, Boundary Effects, Backbending, and Breathing Dynamics

Recent developments in single-molecule DNA mechanics

(2012) Zev Bryant et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Electromagnetic Torque Tweezers: A Versatile Approach for Measurement of Single-Molecule Twist and Torque

(2012) Xander J. A. Janssen et al.   NANO LETTERS

Experimental free-energy measurements of kinetic molecular states using fluctuation theorems

(2012) Anna Alemany et al.   Nature Physics

Competition between curls and plectonemes near the buckling transition of stretched supercoiled DNA

(2012) John F. Marko et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Torque measurements reveal sequence-specific cooperative transitions in supercoiled DNA

(2012) F. C. Oberstrass et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Underwound DNA under Tension: Structure, Elasticity, and Sequence-Dependent Behaviors

(2011) Maxim Y. Sheinin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Energetics at the DNA Supercoiling Transition

(2010) Hergen Brutzer et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Single-molecule derivation of salt dependent base-pair free energies in DNA

(2010) J. M. Huguet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DNA dynamics play a role as a basal transcription factor in the positioning and regulation of gene transcription initiation

(2009) Boian S. Alexandrov et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Investigating the thermodynamics of small biosystems with optical tweezers

(2009) Alessandro Mossa et al.   PHYSICA E-LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS & NANOSTRUCTURES

Ensemble inequivalence in single-molecule experiments

(2009) M. Süzen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Discontinuities at the DNA supercoiling transition

(2009) Bryan C. Daniels et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Oscillations in supercoiling drive circadian gene expression in cyanobacteria

(2009) Vikram Vijayan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inhibitory effect of a short Z-DNA forming sequence on transcription elongation by T7 RNA polymerase

(2008) J. V. Ditlevson et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Abrupt Buckling Transition Observed during the Plectoneme Formation of Individual DNA Molecules

(2008) Scott Forth et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS