Movie S1.

Snapshots from nine independent trajectories of MD simulations with different initial conformations. The C terminus of H-NS (amino acids 95–137) is indicated in green and the linker (amino acids 80–94) is indicated in magenta. All trajectories feature a stable attraction between DNA and the linker of H-NS. Key residues forming H-bonds are shown in stick representation and H-bonds are shown in red dashed lines.