Fluctuations in the DNA double helix: A critical review

MD Frank-Kamenetskii, S Prakash - Physics of life reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
A critical overview of the extensive literature on fluctuations in the DNA double helix is
presented. Both theory and experiment are comprehensively reviewed and analyzed …

Physics of base-pairing dynamics in DNA

M Manghi, N Destainville - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
As a key molecule of life, Deoxyribo-Nucleic Acid (DNA) is the focus of numbers of
investigations with the help of biological, chemical and physical techniques. From a physical …

DNA breathing integration with deep learning foundational model advances genome-wide binding prediction of human transcription factors

A Kabir, M Bhattarai, S Peterson… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
It was previously shown that DNA breathing, thermodynamic stability, as well as
transcriptional activity and transcription factor (TF) bindings are functionally correlated. To …

Specificity and heterogeneity of terahertz radiation effect on gene expression in mouse mesenchymal stem cells

BS Alexandrov, ML Phipps, LB Alexandrov… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
We report that terahertz (THz) irradiation of mouse mesenchymal stem cells (mMSCs) with a
single-frequency (SF) 2.52 THz laser or pulsed broadband (centered at 10 THz) source …

Elucidation of leak-resistance DNA hybridization chain reaction with universality and extensibility

S Li, P Li, M Ge, H Wang, Y Cheng, G Li… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Hybridization chain reaction (HCR) was a significant discovery for the development of
nanoscale materials and devices. One key challenge for HCR is the vulnerability to …

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

BS Alexandrov, V Gelev, SW Yoo… - Nucleic acids …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We assess the role of DNA breathing dynamics as a determinant of promoter strength and
transcription start site (TSS) location. We compare DNA Langevin dynamic profiles of …

A nonlinear dynamic model of DNA with a sequence-dependent stacking term

BS Alexandrov, V Gelev, Y Monisova… - Nucleic Acids …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
No simple model exists that accurately describes the melting behavior and breathing
dynamics of double-stranded DNA as a function of nucleotide sequence. This is especially …

Distributions of bubble lifetimes and bubble lengths in DNA

M Hillebrand, G Kalosakas, C Skokos, AR Bishop - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
We investigate the distribution of bubble lifetimes and bubble lengths in DNA at
physiological temperature, by performing extensive molecular dynamics simulations with the …

Examining DNA breathing with pyDNA-EPBD

A Kabir, M Bhattarai, KØ Rasmussen, A Shehu… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The two strands of the DNA double helix locally and spontaneously separate and
recombine in living cells due to the inherent thermal DNA motion. This dynamics results in …

Influence of a single deuterium substitution for protium on the frequency generation of different-size bubbles in IFNA17

A Basov, A Dorohova, V Malyshko, A Moiseev… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The influence of a single 2H/1H replacement on the frequency generation of different-size
bubbles in the human interferon alpha-17 gene (IFNA17) under various energies was …