title: Dynamic DNA underpins chromosome dynamics.
abstract: A recent article by Meyer and co-workers provides a detailed description of the dynamics of base-step conformational transitions and of the first steps to the basepair opening. These results underpin the essential role that DNA dynamics place in the DNA structural transitions that accompany the active processes of transcription, replication, and recombination in bacterial and eukaryotic chromatin.
authors.affiliation: Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Electronic address: aat@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Travers
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics; D002875:Chromosomes / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000235:genetics; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation
chemical_list: D004247:DNA