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Knotted DNA Configurations in Bacteriophage Capsids: A Liquid Crystal Theory Approach
Pei Liu, Zhijie Wang, Tamara Christiani +3
Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, store their micron long DNA inside an icosahedral capsid with a typical diameter of 40 nm to 100 nm. Consistent with experimental obse…
Chevron patterns in an active nematic liquid crystal film in contact with Smectic A
M. Carme Calderer, Lingxing Yao, Longhua Zhao +3
We study a new mechanism of active matter confinement of a thin, active nematic sample consisting of microtubules, activated by Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP), placed between a slab…
Toroidal nuclei of columnar lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals coexisting with isotropic phase
Runa Koizumi, Dmitry Golovaty, Ali Alqarni +4
Nuclei of ordered materials emerging from the isotropic state usually show a shape topologically equivalent to a sphere; the well-known examples are crystals and nematic liquid cry…
Ion-dependent DNA Configuration in Bacteriophage Capsids
Pei Liu, Javier Arsuaga, M. Carme Calderer +3
Bacteriophages densely pack their long dsDNA genome inside a protein capsid. The conformation of the viral genome inside the capsid is consistent with a hexagonal liquid crystallin…
Three-dimensional soliton-like distortions in flexoelectric nematic liquid crystals: modeling and linear analysis
Maria-Carme Calderer, Ashley Earls
This article models experimentally observed three dimensional particle-like waves that develop in nematic liquid crystals, with negative dielectric and conductive anisotropy, when…
Fine Structure of Viral dsDNA Encapsidation
Shawn Walker, Javier Arsuaga, M. Carme Calderer +2
In vivo configurations of dsDNA of bacteriophage viruses in a capsid are known to form hexagonal chromonic liquid crystal phases. This article studies the liquid crystal ordering o…