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Real‐Time Atomistic Description of DNA Unfolding
Author(s) -
Perez Alberto,
Orozco Modesto
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201000593
Subject(s) - microsecond , dna , computer science , computational biology , crystallography , information retrieval , physics , chemistry , biology , biochemistry , optics
An unfolding story : Simulations exceeding the microsecond timescale and the introduction of a co‐solvent were used to characterize the pathways of the unfolding of a short DNA duplex. Two main pathways are detected involving different substrates. Once unfolding is reached the DNA adopts compact structures different from a random‐coil distribution (see picture).