Untying Knotted DNA with Elongational Flows

We present Brownian dynamics simulations of initially knotted double-stranded DNA molecules untying in elongational flows. We show that the motions of the knots are governed by a diffusion-convection equation by deriving scalings that collapse the simulation data. When being convected, all knots dis...

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Main Authors: Renner, Christopher Benjamin (Contributor), Doyle, Patrick S (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Chemical Society (ACS), 2017-03-16T14:34:44Z.
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