DNA binds to a specific site of the adhesive blood-protein von Willebrand factor guided by electrostatic interactions

Affiliations

• ¹ Max Planck Tandem Group in Computational Biophysics, University of Los Andes, Cra. 1, 18A-12, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia.
• ² Faculty of Physics and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich, Germany.
• ³ Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Dermatology, Center for Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK.
• ⁷ Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.
• ⁸ Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.