Writhing Geometry of Open DNA

Details Writhing Geometry of Open DNA Writhing Geometry of Open DNA

2003-01-14

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0301028v1

Journal of Chemical Physics 118, 9864--9874 (2003)

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Biological Physics

12 pages 10 figures. Revtex4

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1569905

Motivated by recent experiments on DNA torsion-force-extension characteristics we consider the writhing geometry of open stiff molecules. We exhibit a cyclic motion which allows arbitrarily large twisting of the end of a molecule via an activated process. This process is suppressed for forces larger than femto-Newtons which allows us to show that experiments are sensitive to a generalization of the Calugareanu-White formula for the writhe. Using numerical methods we compare this formulation of the writhe with recent analytic calculations.

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