Elastic model of highly supercoiled DNA
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Hideo Tsuru; Miki Wadati
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Article
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1986
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Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
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English
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The equilibrium shapes of supercoiled DNA are investigated by employing an elastic model. First, a set of Euler equations is derived to determine the equilibrium shapes under ring-closure conditions. Two exact solutions that describe circular and figure-8 shapes are obtained. Using these and their t