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Biological Consequences of Tightly Bent DNA: The Other Life of a Macromolecular Celebrity
Hernan G. Garcia, Paul Grayson, Lin Han +6
The mechanical properties of DNA play a critical role in many biological functions. For example, DNA packing in viruses involves confining the viral genome in a volume (the viral c…
Elementary simulation of tethered Brownian motion
John F. Beausang, Chiara Zurla, Luke Sullivan +2
We describe a simple numerical simulation, suitable for an undergraduate project (or graduate problem set), of the Brownian motion of a particle in a Hooke-law potential well. Unde…
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…