Table of Contents:
  • Curvature and deformation of nucleic acids: overview / Nancy C. Stellwagen and Udayan Mohanty
  • Molecular dynamics of DNA and protein-DNA complexes: progress on sequence effects, conformational stability, axis curvature, and structural bioinformatics / D.L. Beveridge, Surjit B. Dixit, K. Suzie Byun, Gabriela Barreiro, Kelly M. Thayer and S. Ponomarev
  • The structural basis for A-Tract DNA helix bending / Douglas MacDonald and Ponzy Lu
  • Lattice- and sequence-dependent binding of Mg2+ in the crystal structure of a B-DNA dodecamer / Martin Egli and Valentina Tereshko
  • Phosphate crowding and DNA bending / P.R. Hardwidge, Y.-P. Pang, J.M. Zimmerman, M. Vaghefi, R. Hogrefe, and L.J. Maher, III
  • Asymmetric charge neutralization of DNA / A. Spasic, G. Hess, K.A. Becker, M. Hansen, R. Bleil, and U. Mohanty
  • Structural and dynamic properties of four-way helical junctions in DNA molecules / David M.J. Lilley
  • Role of a conserved pseudouridine in splicesomal pre-mRNA branch site conformation / Nancy L. Greenbaum and Meredith Newby Lambert
  • Structural perturbations in disease-related human tRNSs / Shana O. Kelley, Lisa Wittenhagen, and Marc D. Roy
  • Folding of bent oligodeoxynucleotide duplexex: energetics, ion binding, and hydration / Luis A. Marky, Karen Alessi, Ronald Shikiya, Jian-Sen Li, and Barry Gold
  • Measuring protein-induced DNA bending by cyclization of short DNA fragments containing single-stranded region / Alexander Vologodskii
  • DNA sequence-dependent curvature and flexibility in stability and organization of nucleosomes / P. De Santis, M. Savino, A Scioioni, and C Anselmi.