{"id":714,"date":"2019-07-30T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=714"},"modified":"2019-09-26T14:08:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T18:08:20","slug":"maxim-d-frank-kamenetskii","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/profile\/maxim-d-frank-kamenetskii\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxim D. Frank-Kamenetskii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maxim D. Frank-Kamenetskii\u2019s research interests include DNA structures, DNA topology, DNA functioning and PNA (peptide nucleic acid). He and his co-workers discovered a novel DNA structure, triplex H-DNA. They also developed a comprehensive theoretical approach to treat DNA topology (i.e., knots and supercoils). <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"label\">Research Areas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Theoretical and experimental studies of various DNA structures<\/b>, which has contributed to the understanding of DNA\u2019s versatility pertaining to different functions in the cell.<\/li>\n<li><b>Development of new approaches to sequence-specific recognition of duplex DNA\u00a0<\/b>using the synthetic DNA analogue known as Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"label\">Quick Links<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=KZw1wckAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;sortby=pubdate\">Publications<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13775,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13775"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/714\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}