Publications

Sines, C.S., McFail-Isom, L. Howerton, S.B., VanDerveer, D., and Williams, L.D.,
    "Cations Mediate B-DNA Conformational Heterogeneity", J. Am. Chem. Soc. in press (article in PDF).

Hamelberg, D., McFail-Isom, L., Williams, L. D. and Wilson, W. D.,
    "The Flexible Structure of DNA: Ion Dependence of Minor-Groove Structure and Dynamics",
    J. Am. Chem. Soc, in press (article in PDF).

Woods, K.K., McFail-Isom, L., Sines, C. C., Howerton, S. B. and Williams, L. D.,
    "Delocalized Monovalent Cations Sequester within the AT-Tract Minor Groove of
    [d(CGCGAATTCGCG)]2", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 1546-1547 (2000)
    (article in PDF).

McFail-Isom, L., Sines, C. and Williams, L. D.,
    "DNA Structure: Cations in Control?", Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 9, 298-304 (1999).

McFail-Isom, L., Shui, X. and Williams, L. D.,
    "Divalent Cations Stabilize Unstacked Conformations of DNA and RNA by Interacting with
    Base P Systems", Biochemistry, 37, 17105-17111 (1998)
    (article in PDF).

Shui, X., McFail-Isom, L., Sines, C., VanDerveer, D. and Williams, L. D.,
    "Structure of the Potassium Form of CGCGAATTCGCG: DNA Deformation by Electrostatic
    Collapse around Small Cations", Biochemistry, 37, 16877-16887 (1998)
    (article in PDF).

Shui, X., McFail-Isom, L., Hu, G. G. and Williams, L. D.,
    "The B-DNA Dodecamer at High Resolution reveals a Spine of Water on Sodium",
    Biochemistry, 37, 8541-8555 (1998)
    (article in PDF).

Davis, T. M., McFail-Isom, L., Keane, E. and Williams, L. D.,
    "UV Spectroscopy Fails to Detect a DNA Hairpin to Coil Transition",
    Biochemistry, 37, 6975-6978 (1998)
    (article in PDF).

Breslin, D. T., Coury, J. E., Anderson, J. R., McFail-Isom, L., Kan, Y., Williams, L. D.,
    Bottomley, L. A. and Schuster, G. B.,
    "Anthraquinone Photonuclease Structure Determines its Mode of Binding to DNA and the Cleavage
    Chemistry Observed", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 5043-5044 (1997)
    (article in PDF).

Coury, J. E., Anderson, J. R., McFail-Isom, L., Williams, L. D. and Bottomley, L. D.,
    "Scanning Force Microscopy of Small Ligand-Nucleic Acid Complexes:
    Tris(o-phenanthroline)ruthenium(II) as a Test for a New Assay", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 3792-3796,
    (1997)
    (article in PDF).

Coury, J. E., McFail-Isom, L., Williams, L. D. and Bottomley, L. D.,
    "A Novel Application of Scanning Force Microscopy: Assay for Mode of Binding of
      2.5-Bis(4-amidinopheny)furan) to DNA", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 93, 12283-12286 (1996)
    (abstract in html).

Coury, J. E., McFail-Isom, L., Presnell, S., Williams, L. D. and Bottomley, L. D.,
    "Scanning Probe Visualization of Electrostatically Immobilized Intercalating Drug-DNA Complexes",
    J. Vac. Sci. and Technol., 13, 1746-1751 (1995).