Defect-Facilitated Buckling in Supercoiled Double-Helix DNA
S. Brahmachari, A. Dittmore, Y. Takagi, K. C. Neuman, J. F. Marko
The paper develops a statistical-mechanical model to study DNA buckling and plectoneme domain behavior under stretching forces and ionic conditions, showing defect-facilitated kink formation and energy reduction.
bioRxiv · Feb 4, 2018Biophysics