Biswajit Pradhan

Employment

• Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik Postdoc
  2021 - Present
• Delft University of Technology Postdoc
  2018 - 2021

Education

• Universiteit Leiden PhD
  2014 - 2018

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (20)

• SMC Motor Proteins Operate at the Near-Minimal Forces for DNA Loop Extrusion
  2026 DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.05.709531
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• Loop-extrusion-mediated plasmid DNA cleavage by the bacterial SMC Wadjet complex
  Molecular Cell 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.11.002
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• A DNA tension-dependent tug-of-war between dimeric SMC motors governs loop extrusion directionality
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.12.612694
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• Loop extrusion-mediated plasmid DNA cleavage by the bacterial SMC Wadjet complex
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.17.580791
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• Loop-extruding Smc5/6 organizes transcription-induced positive DNA supercoils
  2023 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.20.545053
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• The Smc5/6 complex is a DNA loop-extruding motor
  Nature 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05963-3
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• SMC Complexes Can Traverse Physical Roadblocks Bigger Than Their Ring Size
  SSRN Electronic Journal 2022 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4046136
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• The Smc5/6 complex is a DNA loop extruding motor
  2022 DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.13.491800
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• ParB proteins can bypass DNA-bound roadblocks via dimer-dimer recruitment
  Science Advances 2022 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn3299
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• Can pseudotopological models for SMC-driven DNA loop extrusion explain the traversal of physical roadblocks bigger than the SMC ring size?
  2022 DOI: 10.1101/2022.08.02.502451
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