the Tans Biophysics Lab

AMOLF, Amsterdam

Revealing evolutionary pathways by fitness landscape reconstruction

Manjunatha Kogenaru, Marjon de Vos, and Sander Tans
Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol. 44:169-174 (2009)
request reprint here & DOI:10.1080/10409230903039658

Internal Dynamics of Supercoiled DNA Molecules

Thomas Kalkbrenner, Axel Arnold, Sander Tans.
Biophysical Journal 96:4951-4955 (2009)
pdf & DOI:10.1016/j.bpj.2009.03.056

Direct observation of type 1 fimbrial switching

Aileen Adiciptaningrum, Ian Blomfield, Sander Tans.
EMBO Reports 10:527-532 (2009)
pdf & DOI:10.1038/embor.2009.25

Direct Observation of Chaperone-Induced Changes in a Protein Folding Pathway

Philipp Bechtluft¹, Ruud van Leeuwen¹, Matthew Tyreman¹, Danuta Tomkiewicz, Nico Nouwen, Harald Tepper, Arnold Driessen, Sander Tans.
¹ joint first authors
Science 318:1458-1461 (2007)
pdf & DOI:10.1126/science.1144972

Empirical fitness landscapes reveal accessible evolutionary paths

Frank Poelwijk¹, Daan Kiviet¹, Daniel Weinreich, Sander Tans.
¹ joint first authors
Nature 445:383-386 (2007)
pdf & DOI:10.1038/nature05451

Evolutionary potential of a duplicated repressor-operator pair: simulating pathways using mutation data

Frank Poelwijk¹, Daan Kiviet¹, Sander Tans.
¹ joint first authors
PLoS Comput Biol. 2:e58 (2006)
pdf & DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020058

The bacteriophage straight phi29 portal motor can package DNA against a large internal force

Smith DE¹, Tans SJ¹, Smith SB, Grimes S, Anderson DL, Bustamante C.
Nature. 413:748-52 (2001)
pdf & DOI:10.1038/35099581

Molecular transistors: Potential modulations along carbon nanotubes

Sander Tans, Cees Dekker.
Nature. 404:834-835 (2000)
pdf & DOI:10.1038/35009026