ReviewNucleic acids research2025
Kinetoplast DNA: a polymer physicist's topological Olympic dream.
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- Cryo-EM structure of a 95-base-pair double-stranded DNA minicircle at 5.3 Å resolution.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- Why Euglenozoans.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Organisation and dynamics of individual DNA segments in topologically complex genomes.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
- Form and function in biological filaments: a physicist's review.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025Review
- From mitochondrial DNA arrangement to repair: a kinetoplast-associated protein with different roles in two trypanosomatid species.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Topologically-crosslinked hydrogels based on γ-cyclodextrins.Communications chemistry · 2025Review
- An independently tunable dual control system for RNAi complementation in Trypanosoma brucei.PloS one · 2025Article
- Comparative maxicircle analysis in Trypanosoma species from the LSRM clade highlights patterns in an underexplored lineage.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
All life forms are miraculous, but some are more inexplicable than others. Trypanosomes are by far one of the most puzzling organisms on Earth: their mitochondrial genome, also called kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) forms an Olympic-ring-like network of interlinked DNA circles, challenging conventional paradigms in both biology and physics. In this review, I will discuss kDNA from the astonished perspective of a polymer physicist and tell a story of how a single sub-cellular structure from a blood-dwelling parasite is inspiring generations of polymer chemists and physicists to create new catenated materials.
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