Theory and simulation of multiphase coexistence in biomolecular mixtures

WM Jacobs - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular condensates constitute a newly recognized form of spatial organization in
living cells. Although many condensates are believed to form as a result of phase …

Random-Sequence DNA Oligomers Make Liquid Crystals: A Case of Collective Ordering in a Superdiverse Environment

S Marni, TP Fraccia, T Bellini - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
The availability of synthetic, analytical, and predictive tools makes DNA an ideal platform,
not yet considered, to investigate statistical and soft matter physics. Here we report and …

Microfluidics-Based Drying–Wetting Cycles to Investigate Phase Transitions of Small Molecules Solutions

A Verma, T Mateo, J Quintero Botero, N Mohankumar… - Life, 2024 - mdpi.com
Drying–wetting cycles play a crucial role in the investigation of the origin of life as processes
that both concentrate and induce the supramolecular assembly and polymerization of …

Simulating the Lyotropic Phase Behavior of a Partially Self-Complementary DNA Tetramer

S Cristofaro, L Querciagrossa, L Soprani… - …, 2024 - ACS Publications
DNA oligomers in solution have been found to develop liquid crystal phases via a
hierarchical process that involves Watson–Crick base pairing, supramolecular assembly into …

Liquid crystal ordering in DNA double helices with backbone discontinuities

F Fontana, T Bellini, M Todisco - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Short DNA double helices in highly concentrated solutions self-assemble into long
noncovalent polymers and globally order as liquid crystals. What level of helical defect is …

Synthetic eco-evolutionary dynamics in simple molecular environment

L Casiraghi, F Mambretti, A Tovo, EM Paraboschi… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
The understanding of eco-evolutionary dynamics, and in particular the mechanism of
coexistence of species, is still fragmentary and in need of test bench model systems. To this …

[PDF][PDF] Synthetic Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics

L Casiraghi, F Mambretti, A Tovo, EM Paraboschi… - scholar.archive.org
The understanding of eco-evolutionary dynamics, and in particular the mechanism of 12
emergence of species, is still fragmentary and in need of test bench model systems. To this …