Electrostatics of DNA compaction in viruses, bacteria and eukaryotes: functional insights and evolutionary perspective

The interactions between charged colloids with rod-like counterions

(2012) Klemen Bohinc et al.   Soft Matter

Electrostatic Braiding and Homologous Pairing of DNA Double Helices

(2011) Ruggero Cortini et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DNA shape, genetic codes, and evolution

(2011) Stephen CJ Parker et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Counterion condensation theory of attraction between like charges in the absence of multivalent counterions

(2011) G. S. Manning   EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E

On emerging nuclear order

(2011) Indika Rajapakse et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Functional evolution of nuclear structure

(2011) Katherine L. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Nucleosomes stacked with aligned dyad axes are found in native compact chromatin in vitro

(2011) Margot P. Scheffer et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Is DNA’s Rigidity Dominated by Electrostatic or Nonelectrostatic Interactions?

(2011) Alexey Savelyev et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Effective interaction between charged nanoparticles and DNA

(2011) Fabien Paillusson et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Do monovalent mobile ions affect DNA's flexibility at high salt content?

(2011) Alexey Savelyev   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Wigner-crystal formulation of strong-coupling theory for counterions near planar charged interfaces

(2011) Ladislav Šamaj et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Analytical Description of Extension, Torque, and Supercoiling Radius of a Stretched Twisted DNA

(2011) Sébastien Neukirch et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Counterions at Highly Charged Interfaces: From One Plate to Like-Charge Attraction

(2011) Ladislav Šamaj et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Evidence for short-range helical order in the 30-nm chromatin fibers of erythrocyte nuclei

(2011) M. P. Scheffer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conformational analysis and estimation of the persistence length of DNA using atomic force microscopy in solution

(2011) S. Mantelli et al.   Soft Matter

Compartmentalization of the nucleus

(2011) Lauren Meldi et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Deciphering condensin action during chromosome segregation

(2011) Sara Cuylen et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

The nuclear envelope as a chromatin organizer

(2011) Nikolaj Zuleger et al.   Nucleus

Gene silencing is an ancient means of producing multiple phenotypes from the same genotype

(2010) Neil A. Youngson et al.   BIOESSAYS

Origin of the cell nucleus, mitosis and sex: roles of intracellular coevolution

(2010) Thomas Cavalier-Smith   Biology Direct

Cation Charge Dependence of the Forces Driving DNA Assembly

(2010) Jason DeRouchey et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Charge State of the Globular Histone Core Controls Stability of the Nucleosome

(2010) Andrew T. Fenley et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Energetics at the DNA Supercoiling Transition

(2010) Hergen Brutzer et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Chromatin structure: does the 30-nm fibre exist in vivo?

(2010) Kazuhiro Maeshima et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Effects of nucleoid-associated proteins on bacterial chromosome structure and gene expression

(2010) Douglas F Browning et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Evolutionary origin of the cell nucleus and its functional architecture

(2010) Jan Postberg et al.   Essays in Biochemistry

Counterion-mediated weak and strong coupling electrostatic interaction between like-charged cylindrical dielectrics

(2010) Matej Kanduč et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Bacterial nucleoid-associated proteins, nucleoid structure and gene expression

(2010) Shane C. Dillon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Histone variants — ancient wrap artists of the epigenome

(2010) Paul B. Talbert et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Conformational transition of DNA bound to Hfq probed by infrared spectroscopy

(2010) Frédéric Geinguenaud et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Helical Chirality: a Link between Local Interactions and Global Topology in DNA

(2010) Youri Timsit et al.   PLoS One

Divalent counterion-induced condensation of triple-strand DNA

(2010) X. Qiu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Right-handed double-helix ultrashort DNA yields chiral nematic phases with both right- and left-handed director twist

(2010) Giuliano Zanchetta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Protein Acetylation in Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryotes

(2010) Jörg Soppa   ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL

How Cations Can Assist DNase I in DNA Binding and Hydrolysis

(2010) Marc Guéroult et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Activation of Nucleoplasmin, an Oligomeric Histone Chaperone, Challenges Its Stability†,‡

(2009) Stefka G. Taneva et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

H3 phosphorylation: dual role in mitosis and interphaseThis paper is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue entitled 30th Annual International Asilomar Chromatin and Chromosomes Conference and has undergone the Journal’s usual peer review process.

(2009) Beatriz Pérez-Cadahía et al.   Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Nuclear functions of the HMG proteins

(2009) Raymond Reeves   Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Elasticity and Electrostatics of Plectonemic DNA

(2009) N. Clauvelin et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Screen for DNA-damage-responsive histone modifications identifies H3K9Ac and H3K56Ac in human cells

(2009) Jorrit V Tjeertes et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Dense chromatin plates in metaphase chromosomes

(2009) Isaac Gállego et al.   EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS

Nanoparticle Aggregation Controlled by Desalting Kinetics

(2009) J. Fresnais et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Protein Occupancy Landscape of a Bacterial Genome

(2009) Tiffany Vora et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Nonspecific DNA-Protein Interaction: Why Proteins Can Diffuse along DNA

(2009) Vincent Dahirel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Measurement of the Torque on a Single Stretched and Twisted DNA Using Magnetic Tweezers

(2009) Francesco Mosconi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Structure of toroidal DNA collapsed inside the phage capsid

(2009) A. Leforestier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Attractive Forces between Cation Condensed DNA Double Helices

(2008) Brian A. Todd et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Nucleosome Geometry and Internucleosomal Interactions Control the Chromatin Fiber Conformation

(2008) Nick Kepper et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The Major Architects of Chromatin: Architectural Proteins in Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryotes

(2008) Martijn S. Luijsterburg et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Histone H3 K56 acetylation, chromatin assembly, and the DNA damage checkpoint

(2008) Jessica A. Downs   DNA REPAIR

Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen and ASF1 Modulate Silent Chromatin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae via Lysine 56 on Histone H3

(2008) Andrew Miller et al.   GENETICS

REDOR NMR Characterization of DNA Packaging in Bacteriophage T4

(2008) Tsyr-Yan Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Bridging Like-Charged Macroions through Long Divalent Rodlike Ions

(2008) Sylvio May et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Role of Sindbis Virus Capsid Protein Region II in Nucleocapsid Core Assembly and Encapsidation of Genomic RNA

(2008) R. Warrier et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Mechanical Response of Plectonemic DNA: An Analytical Solution

(2008) N. Clauvelin et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Maxwell relations for single-DNA experiments: Monitoring protein binding and double-helix torque with force-extension measurements

(2008) Houyin Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Weak- and strong-coupling electrostatic interactions between asymmetrically charged planar surfaces

(2008) M. Kanduč et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

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

(2008) Scott Forth et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Analysis of cryo-electron microscopy images does not support the existence of 30-nm chromatin fibers in mitotic chromosomes in situ

(2008) M. Eltsov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nucleosome repeat length and linker histone stoichiometry determine chromatin fiber structure

(2008) Andrew Routh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Counterion-mediated electrostatic interactions between helical molecules

(2008) M. Kanduč et al.   Soft Matter