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How a protein searches for its specific site on DNA: the role of intersegment transfer
Tao Hu, B. I. Shklovskii
Proteins are known to locate their specific targets on DNA up to two orders of magnitude faster than predicted by the Smoluchowski three-dimensional diffusion rate. One of the mech…
Kinetics of viral self-assembly: the role of ss RNA antenna
Tao Hu, B. I. Shklovskii
A big class of viruses self-assemble from a large number of identical capsid proteins with long flexible N-terminal tails and ss RNA. We study the role of the strong Coulomb intera…
Electrostatic theory of viral self-assembly: a toy model
Tao Hu, Rui Zhang, B. I. Shklovskii
Viruses self-assemble from identical capsid proteins and their genome consisting, for example, of a long single stranded (ss) RNA. For a big class of T = 3 viruses capsid proteins…
How do proteins search for their specific sites on coiled or globular DNA
Tao Hu, A. Yu. Grosberg, B. I. Shklovskii
It is known since the early days of molecular biology that proteins locate their specific targets on DNA up to two orders of magnitude faster than the Smoluchowski 3D diffusion rat…