Effects of molecular crowding and confinement on the spatial organization of a biopolymer

Unpacking the origins of in-cell crowding

(2016) Kim A. Sharp   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Simulating the Entropic Collapse of Coarse-Grained Chromosomes

(2015) Tyler N. Shendruk et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Chromosome, Cell Cycle, and Entropy

(2015) Suckjoon Jun   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Effects of Macromolecular Crowding on the Collapse of Biopolymers

(2015) Hongsuk Kang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Polymers under confinement: single polymers, how they interact, and as model chromosomes

(2015) Bae-Yeun Ha et al.   Soft Matter

A polymer in a crowded and confined space: effects of crowder size and poly-dispersity

(2015) Juin Kim et al.   Soft Matter

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of depletion-induced interactions for soft matter systems

(2015) Tyler N. Shendruk et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

The multifork Escherichia coli chromosome is a self-duplicating and self-segregating thermodynamic ring polymer

(2014) B. Youngren et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Perspective: The Asakura Oosawa model: A colloid prototype for bulk and interfacial phase behavior

(2014) Kurt Binder et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Unusual size-dependence of effective interactions between collapsed polymers in crowded environments

(2014) Inrok Oh et al.   Soft Matter

Influence of crowded cellular environments on protein folding, binding, and oligomerization: Biological consequences and potentials of atomistic modeling

(2013) Huan-Xiang Zhou   FEBS LETTERS

Elasticity of flexible polymers under cylindrical confinement: appreciating the blob scaling regime in computer simulations

(2013) Juin Kim et al.   Soft Matter

Intrachain Ordering and Segregation of Polymers under Confinement

(2012) Youngkyun Jung et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Physical manipulation of the Escherichia coli chromosome reveals its soft nature

(2012) J. Pelletier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effect of Nanochannel Geometry on DNA Structure in the Presence of Macromolecular Crowding Agent

(2011) Jeremy J. Jones et al.   NANO LETTERS

A model for Escherichia coli chromosome packaging supports transcription factor-induced DNA domain formation

(2011) Miriam Fritsche et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Crowding-Induced Structural Alterations of Random-Loop Chromosome Model

(2011) Jun Soo Kim et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Ring polymers as model bacterial chromosomes: confinement, chain topology, single chain statistics, and how they interact

(2011) Youngkyun Jung et al.   Soft Matter

DNA condensation in bacteria: Interplay between macromolecular crowding and nucleoid proteins

(2010) Renko de Vries   BIOCHIMIE

Self-avoiding polymer trapped inside a cylindrical pore: Flory free energy and unexpected dynamics

(2009) Youngkyun Jung et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Macromolecular Crowding and Confinement: Biochemical, Biophysical, and Potential Physiological Consequences

(2008) Huan-Xiang Zhou et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

Compression and Stretching of a Self-Avoiding Chain in Cylindrical Nanopores

(2008) Suckjoon Jun et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS