DNA-protamine condensates under low salt conditions: molecular dynamics simulation with a simple coarse-grained model focusing on electrostatic interactions
Yun Hee Jang, Éric Raspaud, Yves Lansac
Abstract
, membraneless organelles arising from liquid-liquid phase separation, that are emerging as key principles of intracellular organization. Such condensates controlled by post-translational modification of protamine, in particular phosphorylation, or by variations in protamine length from species to species may also be responsible for the chromatin-nucleoplasm patterning observed during spermatogenesis in several vertebrate and invertebrate species.
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ProtamineChemical physicsMolecular dynamicsElectrostaticsNanoscopic scaleSalt (chemistry)Electrostatic interactionDNARange (aeronautics)Simple (philosophy)Charge (physics)Dynamics (music)Static electricityChemistryBiophysicsMaterials scienceNanotechnologyPhysicsComputational chemistryBiologyPhysical chemistryBiochemistryQuantum mechanicsEpistemologyPhilosophyHeparinAcousticsComposite materialElectrostatics and Colloid InteractionsDNA and Nucleic Acid ChemistryNanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies