Research articles:

• J. Martin, P. A. Wiggins, Jané Kondev. Tethering interactions shape chromosome conformation. (In preparation.)

• P. A. Wiggins, K. Cheveralls, Joshua S. Martin, Robert Lintner, Jané Kondev. Strong intra-nucleoid interactions organize the E. coli chromosome into a nucleoid filament. Submitted PNAS.

• P. A. Wiggins, R. Th. Dame, M. C. Noom, G. Wuite. Protein mediated bridging motifs: a key mechanism in biopolymer organization. Biophys J. Oct 2009. (Featured Article.)

• Rob Phillips, Tristan Ursell, Paul Wiggins, Pierre Sens. Lipids Are Not Passive Bystanders in Membrane Protein Function. Nature. 459(7245) 379-85. (2009) Review.

• Lee HJ, Peterson EL, Phillips R, Klug WS, Wiggins PA. Membrane shape as a reporter for applied forces.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Dec 9;105(49):19253-7. Epub 2008 Dec 1.

Commentary:
– Frolov VA, Zimmerberg J. Membranes: Shaping biological matter. Nature Materials. 8(3) 173-174. (2009).

• T. Ursell, J. Kondev, D. Reeves, P. Wiggins, and R. Phillips. The Role of Lipid Bilayer Mechanics in Mechanosensation in Mechanosensitivity in Cells and Tissues 1: Mechanosensitive Ion Channels, edited by A. Kamkin and I. Kiseleva, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2008. Review.

• Wiggins PA, van der Heijden T, Moreno-Herrero F, Spakowitz A, Phillips R, Widom J, Dekker C, Nelson PC. High flexibility of DNA on short length scales probed by atomic force microscopy. Nat Nanotechnol. 2006 Nov;1(2):137-41. Epub 2006 Nov 3.

Commentary:

– Podgornik R, Polymer physics: DNA off the Hooke. Nat Nanotechnol. 1(2) 100-1. (2006)
– Brendan Maher. Physics in the cell: Spring theory. Nature 448, 984-986. (2007)

• Garcia HG, Grayson P, Han L, Inamdar M, Kondev J, Nelson PC, Phillips R, Widom J, Wiggins PA. Biological consequences of tightly bent DNA: the other life of a macromolecular celebrity. Biopolymers. 2007 Feb 5;85(2):115-30.

• Wiggins PA, Nelson PC. Generalized theory of semiflexible polymers. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2006 Mar;73(3 Pt 1):031906. Epub 2006 Mar 7.

• P. Wiggins, R. Phillips & P. Nelson. Exact theory of kinkable elastic polymers. (PRE 013501, cond- mat/0409003).

• P. Wiggins & R. Phillips. Membrane-protein interactions in mechanosensitive channels. Biophys. J., 88
(2): 880-902 (2005).

• P. Wiggins & R. Phillips. Analytic models for mechanotransduction: Gating a mechanosensitive channel,
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 101: 4071-4076 (2004).

• P. Wiggins & D. Lai. Tidal Interactions Between a Fluid Star and a Kerr Black Hole in Circular Orbit,
Astrophys. J. 532:530 (2000).

• R.Q. Erkamp, P. Wiggins, A.R. Skovoroda, S.Y. Emelianov, & M. O’Donnell. Measuring the Elastic Modulus of Small Tissue Samples, Ultrasonic Imaging, 20:17-28 (1998).