Enforcing local DNA kinks by sequence-selective trisintercalating oligopeptides of a tricationic porphyrin. A polarizable Molecular Dynamics study.
N. Gresh, K. El Hage, L. Lagardere, F. Bregier, J. Godard, J.-P. Piquemal, M. Perree-Fauvet, V. Sol
This paper uses molecular dynamics to show that BABAP derivatives induce sequence-selective DNA kinks, mimicking DNA-bound Cre recombinase structures.
bioRxiv · Jul 26, 2023Biophysics