Unraveling DNA tori under tension

Details Unraveling DNA tori under tension Unraveling DNA tori under tension

2009-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/0904.4069v1

Physics

Biological Physics

9 pages, 11 figures

Scientific paper

Motivated by recent experiments, we develop a model for DNA toroids under external tension. We find that tori are the equilibrium states for our model up to a critical tension, above which they become only metstable. Above this tension, we find a cascade of transitions between discrete toroid states that successively lowers the winding number, until the ground state (rod) is reached. In this process, this model predicts a nearly constant force plateau as a function of extension, in agreement with experiment.

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