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Twist-bend instability for toroidal DNA condensates
Igor M. Kulic, Denis Andrienko, Markus Deserno
We propose that semiflexible polymers in poor solvent collapse in two stages. The first stage is the well known formation of a dense toroidal aggregate. However, if the solvent is…
cond-mat.soft2003
DNA Spools under Tension
I. M. Kulic, H. Schiessel
DNA-spools, structures in which DNA is wrapped and helically coiled onto itself or onto a protein core are ubiquitous in nature. We develop a general theory describing the non-equi…
cond-mat.soft2003
Chromatin dynamics: Nucleosomes go mobile through twist defects
I. M. Kulic, H. Schiessel
We study the spontaneous ''sliding'' of histone spools (nucleosomes) along DNA as a result of thermally activated single base pair twist defects. To this end we map the system onto…