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The syncytial Drosophila embryo as a mechanically excitable medium
Timon Idema, Julien O. Dubuis, Louis Kang +4
Mitosis in the early syncytial Drosophila embryo is highly correlated in space and time, as manifested in mitotic wavefronts that propagate across the embryo. In this paper we inve…
The role of microtubule movement in bidirectional organelle transport
Igor M. Kulić, André E. X. Brown, Hwajin Kim +5
We study the role of microtubule movement in bidirectional organelle transport in Drosophila S2 cells and show that EGFP-tagged peroxisomes in cells serve as sensitive probes of mo…
DNA Looping Kinetics Analyzed Using Diffusive Hidden Markov Model
John F. Beausang, Chiara Zurla, Carlo Manzo +3
Tethered particle experiments use light microscopy to measure the position of a micrometer-sized bead tethered to a microscope slide via a ~micrometer length polymer, in order to i…
Entropic elasticity of DNA with a permanent kink
Jinyu Li, Philip C. Nelson, M. D. Betterton
Many proteins interact with and deform double-stranded DNA in cells. Single-molecule experiments have studied the elasticity of DNA with helix-deforming proteins, including protein…
DNA entropic elasticity for short molecules attached to beads
Jinyu Li, Philip C. Nelson, M. D. Betterton
Single-molecule experiments in which force is applied to DNA or RNA molecules have enabled important discoveries of nucleic acid properties and nucleic acid-enzyme interactions. Th…
The bend stiffness of S-DNA
Cornelis Storm, Philip Nelson
We formulate and solve a two-state model for the elasticity of nicked, double-stranded DNA that borrows features from both the Worm Like Chain and the Bragg--Zimm model. Our model…