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Giubertoni, Giulia (author), Pérez De Alba Ortíz, Alberto (author), Bano, Fouzia (author), Zhang, Xing (author), Linhardt, Robert J. (author), Green, Dixy E. (author), Deangelis, Paul L. (author), Koenderink, G.H. (author), Richter, Ralf P. (author), Ensing, Bernd (author), Bakker, Huib J. (author)The biological functions of natural polyelectrolytes are strongly influenced by the presence of ions, which bind to the polymer chains and thereby modify their properties. Although the biological impact of such modifications is well recognized, a detailed molecular picture of the binding process and of the mechanisms that drive the subsequent...journal article 2021
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Wang, Ying (author), He, Yadong (author), Yu, Zhou (author), Gao, J. (author), ten Brinck, Stephanie (author), Hegde, M. (author), Moore, Robert B. (author), Ensing, Bernd (author), Dingemans, T.J. (author)The ubiquitous biomacromolecule DNA has an axial rigidity persistence length of ~50 nm, driven by its elegant double helical structure. While double and multiple helix structures appear widely in nature, only rarely are these found in synthetic non-chiral macromolecules. Here we report a double helical conformation in the densely charged...journal article 2019