2 papers
cond-mat.soft2023
Emergent helicity in free-standing semiflexible, charged polymers
Debarshi Mitra, Apratim Chatterji
Helical motifs are ubiquitious in macromolecular systems. The mechanism of spontaneous emergence of helicity is unknown, especially in cases where torsional interactions are absent…
cond-mat.soft2021
The role of polymer architecture in the entropy driven segregation and spatial organization of bacterial chromosomes
Debarshi Mitra, Shreerang Pande, Apratim Chatterji
Entropic repulsion between DNA ring polymers under confinement is the key mechanism governing the spatial segregation of bacterial chromosomes, although it remains incompletely und…