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Twist dominates bending in the liquid crystal organization of bacteriophage DNA
Pei Liu, Tamara Christiani, Zhijie Wang +4
DNA frequently adopts liquid-crystalline conformations in both cells and viruses. The Oseen--Frank framework provides a powerful continuum description of these phases through three…
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…
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…
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…
A Liquid Crystal Model of Viral DNA Encapsidation
Javier Arsuaga, Maria-Carme Calderer, Lindsey Hiltner +1
A liquid crystal continuum modeling framework for icosahedra bacteriophage viruses is developed and tested. The main assumptions of the model are the chromonic columnar hexagonal s…
Uncovering Proximity of Chromosome Territories using Classical Algebraic Statistics
Javier Arsuaga, Ido Heskia, Serkan Hosten +1
Exchange type chromosome aberrations (ETCAs) are rearrangements of the genome that occur when chromosomes break and the resulting fragments rejoin with other fragments from other c…