ArticleBiophysical journal1998
Symmetry laws for interaction between helical macromolecules.
Article in Biophysical journal, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Electrostatic interaction between helical macromolecules in dense aggregates: an impetus for DNA poly- and meso-morphism.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1998Article
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Abstract
The power of symmetry laws is applied in many scientific areas from elementary particle physics to structural biology. The structures of many biological helices, including DNA, were resolved with the use of pertinent symmetry constraints. It was not recognized, however, that similar constraints determine cardinal features of helix-helix interactions vital for many recognition and assembly reactions in living cells. We now formulate such symmetry-determined interaction laws and apply them to explain DNA "over-winding" from 10.5 base pairs per turn in solution to 10 in hydrated fibers, counterion specificity in DNA condensation, and forces observed over the last 15 A of separation between DNA, collagen, and four-stranded guanosine helices.
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