Prof. Bengt Norden

Prof. Bengt Norden

Prof. Norden is Professor of Chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was formerly Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.

20 Papers

DNA adopts normal B-form upon incorporation of highly fluorescent DNA base analogue tC: NMR structure and UV-Vis spectroscopy characterization

K. C. Engman, P. Sandin, S. Osborne, T. Brown, M. Billeter, P. Lincoln, B. Norden, B. Albinsson and L. M. Wilhelmsson. Nucleic Acids Res. 32 (17), 5087-5095, 2004.

Effects of a hairpin polyamide on DNA melting: comparison with distamycin and Hoechst 33258

P. L. James, L. Le Strat, U. Ellervik, C. Bratwall, B. Norden, T. Brown and K. R. Fox. Biophys. Chem. 111 (3), 205-212, 2004.

Triplex addressability as a basis for functional DNA nanostructures

J. Tumpane, R. Kumar, E. P. Lundberg, P. Sandin, N. Gale, I. S. Nandhakumar, B. Albinsson, P. Lincoln, L. M. Wilhelmsson, T. Brown and B. Norden. Nano Lett. 7 (12), 3832-3839, 2007.

High-information addressable DNA nanostructures

J. Tumpane, P. Sandin, R. Kumar, V. E. C. Powers, P. Lincoln, B. Albinsson, L. M. Wilhelmsson, T. Brown and B. Norden. 51st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical-Society, Baltimore 47A, 2007.

Addressable high-information-density DNA nanostructures

J. Tumpane, P. Sandin, R. Kumar, V. E. C. Powers, E. P. Lundberg, N. Gale, P. Baglioni, J. M. Lehn, B. Albinsson, P. Lincoln, L. M. Wilhelmsson, T. Brown and B. Norden. Chem. Phys. Lett. 440 (1), 125-129, 2007.

Phospholipid membranes decorated by cholesterol-based oligonucleotides as soft hybrid nanostructures

M. Banchelli, F. Betti, D. Berti, G. Caminati, F. B. Bombelli, T. Brown, L. M. Wilhelmsson, B. Norden and P. Baglioni. J. Phys. Chem. B 112 (35), 10942-10952, 2008.

DNA Closed Nanostructures: A Structural and Monte Carlo Simulation Study

F. B. Bombelli, F. Gambinossi, M. Lagi, D. Berti, G. Caminati, T. Brown, F. Sciortino, B. Norden and P. Baglioni. J. Phys. Chem. B 112 (48), 15283-15294, 2008.

DNA Polymorphism as an Origin of Adenine-Thymine Tract Length-Dependent Threading Intercalation Rate

P. Nordell, F. Westerlund, A. Reymer, A. H. El-Sagheer, T. Brown, B. Norden and P. Lincoln. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130 (44), 14651-14658, 2008.

Membrane-Anchored DNA Assembly for Energy and Electron Transfer

K. Borjesson, J. Tumpane, T. Ljungdahl, L. M. Wilhelmsson, B. Norden, T. Brown, J. Martensson and B. Albinsson. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131 (8), 2831-2839, 2009.

Thermodynamic Aspects of DNA Nanoconstruct Stability and Design

P. Sandin, J. Tumpane, K. Borjesson, L. M. Wilhelmsson, T. Brown, B. Norden, B. Albinsson and P. Lincoln. J. Phys. Chem. C 113 (15), 5941-5946, 2009.

A new fixation strategy for addressable nano-network building blocks

E. P. Lundberg, A. H. El-Sagheer, P. Kocalka, L. M. Wilhelmsson, T. Brown and B. Norden. Chem. Commun. 46 (21), 3714-3716, 2010.

Functionalized Nanostructures: Redox-Active Porphyrin Anchors for Supramolecular DNA Assemblies

K. Borjesson, J. Wiberg, A. H. El-Sagheer, T. Ljungdahl, J. Martensson, T. Brown, B. Norden and B. Albinsson. ACS Nano 4 (9), 5037–5046, 2010.

Nanofabrication yields. Hybridization and click-fixation of polycyclic DNA nanoassemblies.

E. P. Lundberg, C. Plesa, L. M. Wilhelmsson, P. Lincoln, T. Brown and B. Norden. ACS Nano 5 (9), 7565-7575, 2011.

Fixation of Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures by Simultaneous Multicenter Click Chemistry

E. P. Lundberg, A. H. El-Sagheer, P. Kocalka, L. M. Wilhelmsson, T. Brown and B. Norden. Biophys. J. 98 (3), 658a, 2010.

Addressable Molecular Node Assembly–Functional DNA Nanostructures

J. Tumpane, E. P. Lundberg, L. M. Wilhelmsson, T. Brown and B. Norden. Nucleic Acids Sym. Ser. 52 (1), 97-98, 2008.

Tension induces a base-paired overstretched DNA conformation

N. Bosaeus, A. H. El-Sagheer, T. Brown, S. B. Smith, B. Akerman, C. Bustamante and B. Norden. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109 (38), 15179-15184, 2012.

A New Modular Approach to Nanoassembly: Stable and Addressable DNA Nanoconstructs via Orthogonal Click Chemistries

S. R. Gerrard, C. Hardiman, M. Shelbourne, I. Nandhakumar, B. Norden and T. Brown. ACS Nano 6 (10), 9221-9228, 2012.

Initial DNA Interactions of the Binuclear Threading Intercalator ?,?-[?-bidppz(bipy)4Ru2]4+: An NMR Study with [d(CGCGAATTCGCG)]2

L. Wu, A. Reymer, C. Persson, K. Kazimierczuk, T. Brown, P. Lincoln, B. Norden and M. Billeter. Chem. Eur. J. 19 (17), 5401-5410, 2013.

Force-induced melting of DNA—evidence for peeling and internal melting from force spectra on short synthetic duplex sequences

N. Bosaeus, A. H. El-Sagheer, T. Brown, B. Akerman and B. Norden. Nucleic Acids Res. 42 (12), 8083-8091, 2014.

A stretched conformation of DNA with a biological role?

N. Bosaeus, A. Reymer, T. Beke-Somfai, T. Brown, M. Takahashi, P. Wittung-Stafshede, S. Rocha and B. Nordén. Q. Rev. Biophys 50 (11), 1-11, 2017.