Biophysics of DNA-Protein Interactions

1. Introduction to Biophysics of DNA–Protein Interactions: From Single Molecules to Biological Systems
Mark C. Williams, L. James Maher

2. Single-Molecule Imaging of LacI Diffusing Along Nonspecific DNA
Y. M. Wang, R. H. Austin

3. How Proteins Slide on DNA
Daniel Barsky, Ted A. Laurence, Česlovas Venclovas

4. Role of DNA Conformations in Gene Regulation
Ralf Metzler, Bram Broek, Gijs J. L. Wuite, Michael A. Lomholt

5. Recognition of Nucleic Acids by Transcription Factor NF-κB
Gourisankar Ghosh, De-Bin Huang, Tom Huxford

6. Dynamics and Mechanism of DNA-Bending Proteins in Binding Site Recognition
Anjum Ansari, Serguei V. Kuznetsov

7. Studies of Sequence-Nonspecific HMGB DNA-Binding Proteins
L. James Maher

8. DNA Interactions with Single-Stranded DNA Binding Proteins and Retroviral Nucleic Acid Chaperones by Force Spectroscopy
Mark C. Williams, Ioulia Rouzina

9. DNA Looping in Prophage Lambda: New Insight from Single-Molecule Microscopy
Laura Finzi, Carlo Manzo, Chiara Zurla, Haowei Wang, Dale Lewis, Sankar Adhya, David Dunlap

10. Dynamics of Protein–ssDNA Interactions in the Bacteriophage T4 Homologous Recombination System
Jie Liu, Scott W. Morrical

11. Polymerase Switching in Response to DNA Damage
Jaylene N. Ollivierre, Michelle C. Silva, Jana Sefcikova, Penny J. Beuning

12. Topological Probes of a Cooperative, Nonspecific Protein–DNA Complex
Claire A. Adams, Manana Melikishvili, Michael G. Fried

13. How to Think Like a Single Molecule: Obtaining Quantitative Measurements on Single DNA Molecules and Chromatin Fibers
Sanford H. Leuba, Richard A. Steinman

14. Long-Range Chromatin Interactions in Cells
Guo Ling Zhou, Li Xin, Pei Liu

Keywords: Physics, Biophysics and Biological Physics, Molecular Medicine, Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Biochemistry, general, Protein Structure