Thermodynamics of DNA: sensitizer recognition. Characterizing binding motifs with all-atom simulations

Hugo Gattuso1, Elise Dumont2, Christophe Chipot3

  • 1Université de Lorraine - Nancy, Theory-Modeling-Simulation, UMR 7565, Structure et Réactivité des Systémes Moléculaires Complexes (SRSMC), Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France. Francois.Dehez@univ-lorraine.fr Antonio.Monari@univ-lorraine.fr and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Theory-Modeling-Simulation, UMR 7565, Structure et Réactivité des Systémes Moléculaires Complexes (SRSMC), Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France.

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