4 papers
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…
Recent advances on the non-coherent band surgery model for site-specific recombination
Allison H. Moore, Mariel Vazquez
Site-specific recombination is an enzymatic process where two sites of precise sequence and orientation along a circle come together, are cleaved, and the ends are recombined. Site…
A note on band surgery and the signature of a knot
Allison H. Moore, Mariel Vazquez
Band surgery is an operation relating pairs of knots or links in the three-sphere. We prove that if two quasi-alternating knots and of the same square-free determinant are…
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…