554 citations
3 papers
q-bio.BM2004★ 554 cited
Kinetics of protein-DNA interaction: facilitated target location in sequence-dependent potential
Michael Slutsky, Leonid A. Mirny
Recognition and binding of specific sites on DNA by proteins is central for many cellular functions such as transcription, replication, and recombination. In the process of recogni…
q-bio.BM2003★ 115 cited
The long reach of DNA sequence heterogeneity in diffusive processes
Michael Slutsky, Mehran Kardar, Leonid A. Mirny
Many biological processes involve one dimensional diffusion over a correlated inhomogeneous energy landscape with a correlation length . Typical examples are specific protein…
cond-mat.soft2003★ 445 cited
Virus shapes and buckling transitions in spherical shells
Jack Lidmar, Leonid Mirny, David R. Nelson
We show that the icosahedral packings of protein capsomeres proposed by Caspar and Klug for spherical viruses become unstable to faceting for sufficiently large virus size, in anal…