Effective stiffening of DNA due to nematic ordering causes DNA molecules packed in phage capsids to preferentially form torus knots

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5129-5137

  Reith, Daniel ^a   Cifra, Peter ^b   Stasiak, Andrzej ^c   Virnau, Peter ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b POLYMER INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CYCLIZATION; DNA KNOT; DNA PACKAGING; DNA STRUCTURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS CAPSID;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CAPSID; DNA, VIRAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84862225074     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks157     Document Type: Article

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