Random state transitions of knots: a first step towards modeling unknotting by type II topoisomerases

Topology and its Applications

Volumn 154, Issue 7 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 1381-1397

  Hua, Xia ^a   Nguyen, Diana ^b   Raghavan, Barath ^c   Arsuaga, Javier ^d   Vazquez, Mariel ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BFACF algorithm; DNA knots; Polymer models; Random knotting; Topoisomerase II

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847743923     PISSN: 01668641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.topol.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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