Nucleic Acids: Structure, Function and Dynamics

Presentations

• Histone octamer acetylation affects the free energy of nucleosome formation

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 2:30 PM – March 17, 2009, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Alex Mooney

    • Department of Physics, The Ohio State University

  • Mridula Manohar

    • Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University

  • Annick Edon

    • Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University

  • Robin Nakkula

    • Department of Physics, The Ohio State University

  • Jennifer Ottesen

    • Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University

  • Michael Poirier

    • Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
    • Ohio State University
    • Department of Physics, The Ohio State University

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• Density fluctuations in confined and non-confined DNA

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 2:42 PM – March 17, 2009, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Junhan Pan

  • Chunda Zhou

  • Robert Riehn

    • North Carolina State University

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• Direct Observation of Multiple Pathways of DNA Stacking Using Single-Molecule AFM

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 2:54 PM – March 17, 2009, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Ching-Hwa Kiang

    • Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX 77005
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005
    • Physics \& Astronomy, Rice University
    • Rice University

  • Wei-Hung Chen

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005

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• Stabilities of Constituent Hairpins Determine Whether RNA Folds via Ordered and/or Parallel Mechanisms

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 3:06 PM – March 17, 2009, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Samuel Cho

    • University of Maryland

  • D. Thirumalai

    • Director, Biophysics Program, University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland

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• Structural basis of pathway-dependent force profiles in DNA

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 3:18 PM – March 17, 2009, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Daniel Roe

    • Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Anne Chaka

    • Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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• Folding Kinetics of Riboswitch Transcriptional Terminators

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 3:30 PM – March 17, 2009, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Benjamin Sauerwine

    • Carnegie Mellon University
    • Carnegie-Mellon University

  • M. Widom

    • Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University
    • Carnegie Mellon University
    • Carnegie-Mellon University
    • Physics Department

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• First Principles Study of Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions in Single and Double Chain DNA and Solid Nucleobases

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 3:42 PM – March 17, 2009, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • T.P. Das

    • SUNY Albany
    • SUNY Albany, UCF Orlando

  • R.H. Pink

    • SUNY Albany

  • S.R. Badu

    • SUNY Albany

  • Archana Dubey

    • UCF Orlando

  • R.H. Scheicher

    • Uppsala University, Sweden
    • CMT Group, Uppsala
    • Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics and Materials Science, Uppsala University, Box 530, SE-751 21, Uppsala Sweden

  • H.P. Saha

    • UCF Orlando

  • Lee Chow

    • UCF Orlando

  • M.B. Huang

    • SUNY Albany

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• Optical control of DNA radio-sensitivity

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 3:54 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Ramin Abolfath

    • University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

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• Acetylated histone H3 increases nucleosome dissociation

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:06 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Marek Simon

    • Department of Physics, The Ohio State University

  • Mridula Manohar

    • Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University

  • Jennifer Ottesen

    • Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University

  • Michael Poirier

    • Department of Physics, The Ohio State University

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• First Principles Study of Muonium Trapping and Associated Magnetic Hyperfine Interactions in Nucleobases in Single and Double Chain DNA and Solid Nucleobases

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:18 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • S.R. Badu

    • SUNY Albany

  • R.H. Pink

    • SUNY Albany

  • Archana Dubey

    • UCF Orlando

  • R.H. Scheicher

    • Uppsala University, Sweden
    • CMT Group, Uppsala
    • Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics and Materials Science, Uppsala University, Box 530, SE-751 21, Uppsala Sweden

  • H.P. Saha

    • UCF Orlando

  • K. Nagamine

    • UC Riverside

  • E. Torikai

    • Yamanashi University

  • Lee Chow

    • UCF Orlando

  • M.B. Huang

    • SUNY Albany

  • T.P. Das

    • SUNY Albany
    • SUNY Albany, UCF Orlando

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• Modeling nucleic acid structure in the presence of single-stranded binding proteins

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:30 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Robert Forties

    • The Ohio State University
    • Department of Physics, Ohio State University

  • Ralf Bundschuh

    • The Ohio State University
    • Department of Physics, Ohio State University

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• A theoretical investigation of the interconversion between B and Z-DNA using the Adaptively Biased and Steered Molecular Dynamics methods

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Mahmoud Moradi

    • CHiPS and Department of Physics, North Carolina State University

  • Christopher Roland

    • CHiPS and Department of Physics, North Carolina State University
    • NCSU

  • Volodymyr Babin

    • CHiPS and Department of Physics, North Carolina State University
    • NCSU

  • Celeste Sagui

    • CHiPS and Department of Physics, North Carolina State University
    • NCSU

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• End-monomer dynamics in semiflexible polymers

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:54 PM – March 17, 2009, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Michael Hinczewski

    • Physics Dept., Tech. Univ. of Munich
    • Technical University of Munich

  • Xaver Schlagberger

    • Physics Dept., Tech. Univ. of Munich

  • Michael Rubinstein

    • Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of North Carolina
    • University of North Carolina
    • UNC Chapel Hill

  • Oleg Krichevsky

    • Physics Dept., Ben-Gurion Univ.

  • Roland Netz

    • Physics Dept., Tech. Univ. of Munich

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• Hydration effect on optical property of a DNA fiber: A first-principles study

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 5:06 PM – March 17, 2009, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Takenori Yamamoto

    • Faculty of Science, Toho University and IIS, The University of Tokyo

  • Tsuyoshi Uda

    • AdvanceSoft Corporation

  • Takahisa Ohno

    • National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and IIS, The University of Tokyo
    • CMSC, National Institute for Materials Science and Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo

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• Supercoil Formation During DNA Melting

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 5:18 PM – March 17, 2009, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Mehmet Sayar

    • Koc University

  • Baris Avsaroglu

    • Koc University

  • Alkan Kabakcioglu

    • Koc University

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