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Nucleosome interactions in chromatin: fiber stiffening and hairpin formation
Boris Mergell, Ralf Everaers, Helmut Schiessel
We use Monte Carlo simulations to study attractive and excluded volume interactions between nucleosome core particles in 30 nm-chromatin fibers. The nucleosomes are treated as disk…
Modeling DNA Structure, Elasticity and Deformations at the Base-pair Level
Boris Mergell, Mohammad R. Ejtehadi, Ralf Everaers
We present a generic model for DNA at the base-pair level. We use a variant of the Gay-Berne potential to represent the stacking energy between neighboring base-pairs. The sugar-ph…
Statistical mechanics of triangulated ribbons
Boris Mergell, Mohammad R. Ejtehadi, Ralf Everaers
We use computer simulations and scaling arguments to investigate statistical and structural properties of a semiflexible ribbon composed of isosceles triangles. We study two differ…
Tube Models for Rubber-Elastic Systems
Boris Mergell, Ralf Everaers
In the first part of the paper we show that the constraining potentials introduced to mimic entanglement effects in Edwards' tube model and Flory's constrained junction model are d…