Time scale of entropic segregation of flexible polymers in confinement: Implications for chromosome segregation in filamentous bacteria
arXiv:0704.3230 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.76.031901
Abstract
We report molecular dynamics simulations of the segregation of two overlapping chains in cylindrical confinement. We find that the entropic repulsion between the chains can be sufficiently strong to cause segregation on a time scale that is short compared to the one for diffusion. This result implies that entropic driving forces are sufficiently strong to cause rapid bacterial chromosome segregation.
Minor changes. Added some references, corrected the labels in figure 6 and reformatted in two columns. Also added reference to published version in PRE
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