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Overview

Richard Lavery is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France and conducts research primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work focuses on molecular biology, with specific attention to RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, protein structure and dynamics, and genomics and chromatin dynamics.

The scientist has contributed to several publications across notable venues, including:

  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Journal of Molecular Recognition
  • Journal of Computational Chemistry

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Richard Lavery include:

  • Multiple protein-DNA interfaces unravelled by evolutionary information, physico-chemical and geometrical properties (2020), published in PLoS Computational Biology
  • Issue Information (2020), published in Journal of Molecular Recognition
  • Issue Information (2024), published in Journal of Computational Chemistry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lavery are:

  • Flavia Corsi
  • Élodie Laine
  • Alessandra Carbone
  • Marc Van Regenmortel
  • Ruben Abagyan

Lavery's research concentrates on understanding the interactions and dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids at a molecular level. The topics addressed in their work predominantly cover:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

The scientist's academic contributions across these topics involve a combination of computational biology approaches, evolutionary analysis, and physico-chemical characterization to elucidate protein-DNA interfaces and related molecular mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • DNA: An Extensible Molecule

    Philippe Cluzel;Anne Lebrun;Christoph Heller;Richard Lavery

  • The Definition of Generalized Helicoidal Parameters and of Axis Curvature for Irregular Nucleic Acids

    Richard Lavery;Heinz Sklenar

  • Defining the structure of irregular nucleic acids: conventions and principles.

    Richard Lavery;Heinz Sklenar

  • Conformational analysis of nucleic acids revisited: Curves+

    R. Lavery;M. Moakher;J. H. Maddocks;D. Petkeviciute

  • Stretched and overwound DNA forms a Pauling-like structure with exposed bases

    J. F. Allemand;D. Bensimon;R. Lavery;V. Croquette

  • A new approach to the rapid determination of protein side chain conformations.

    P. Tuffery;C. Etchebest;S. Hazout;R. Lavery

  • Energetic coupling between DNA bending and base pair opening

    Jean Ramstein;Richard Lavery

  • A systematic molecular dynamics study of nearest-neighbor effects on base pair and base pair step conformations and fluctuations in B-DNA

    Richard Lavery;Krystyna Zakrzewska;David Beveridge;Thomas C. Bishop

  • Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the 136 Unique Tetranucleotide Sequences of DNA Oligonucleotides. II: Sequence Context Effects on the Dynamical Structures of the 10 Unique Dinucleotide Steps

    Surjit B. Dixit;David L. Beveridge;David A. Case;Thomas E. Cheatham

  • Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the 136 Unique Tetranucleotide Sequences of DNA Oligonucleotides. I. Research Design and Results on d(CpG) Steps

    David L. Beveridge;Gabriela Barreiro;K. Suzie Byun;David A. Case

  • Conformational and Helicoidal Analysis of 30 PS of Molecular Dynamics on the d(CGCGAATTCGCG) Double Helix: “Curves”, Dials and Windows

    G. Ravishanker;S. Swaminathan;D. L. Beveridge;R. Lavery

  • Modelling Extreme Stretching of DNA

    Anne Lebrun;Richard Lavery

  • CURVES+ web server for analyzing and visualizing the helical, backbone and groove parameters of nucleic acid structures.

    Christophe Blanchet;Marco Pasi;Krystyna Zakrzewska;Richard Lavery

  • JUMNA (junction minimisation of nucleic acids)

    R. Lavery;K. Zakrzewska;H. Sklenar

  • μABC: a systematic microsecond molecular dynamics study of tetranucleotide sequence effects in B-DNA

    Marco Pasi;John H. Maddocks;David Beveridge;Thomas C. Bishop

  • On the Molecular Mechanism of Drug Intercalation into DNA: A Simulation Study of the Intercalation Pathway, Free Energy, and DNA Structural Changes

    Arnab Mukherjee;Richard Lavery;Biman Bagchi;James T. Hynes

  • BI - BII transitions in B-DNA

    Brigitte Hartmann;Daniel Piazzola;Richard Lavery

  • The flexibility of the nucleic acids: (II). The calculation of internal energy and applications to mononucleotide repeat DNA.

    Richard Lavery;Heinz Sklenar;Krystyna Zakrzewska;Bernard Pullman

  • Kinking Occurs during Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Small DNA Minicircles

    Filip Lankaš;Richard Lavery;John H. Maddocks

  • Wringing Out DNA

    Timothée Lionnet;Sylvain Joubaud;Richard Lavery;David Bensimon

  • Base pair opening within B‐DNA: free energy pathways for GC and AT pairs from umbrella sampling simulations

    Emmanuel Giudice;Péter Várnai;Richard Lavery

  • Alpha/gamma transitions in the B-DNA backbone.

    Péter Várnai;Dragana Djuranovic;Richard Lavery;Brigitte Hartmann

  • Analyzing protein-DNA recognition mechanisms.

    Guillaume Paillard;Richard Lavery

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Pullman
Bernard Pullman Université Paris Cité
David L. Beveridge
David L. Beveridge Wesleyan University
Alberte Pullman
Alberte Pullman Université Paris Cité
John H. Maddocks
John H. Maddocks École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Péter Várnai
Péter Várnai Semmelweis University
Vincent Croquette
Vincent Croquette École Normale Supérieure
David Bensimon
David Bensimon University of California, Los Angeles
David A. Case
David A. Case Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Claude Hélène
Claude Hélène Grenoble Alpes University
James T. Hynes
James T. Hynes University of Colorado Boulder

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