Torsional directed walks, entropic elasticity, and DNA twist stiffness
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Torsional directed walks, entropic elasticity, and DNA twist stiffness.
DNA and other biopolymers differ from classical polymers because of their torsional stiffness. This property changes the statistical character of their conformations under tension from a classical random walk to a problem we call the "torsional directed walk." Motivated by a recent experiment on single lambda-DNA molecules [Strick, T. R., Allemand, J.-F., Bensimon, D., Bensimon, A. & Croquette,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.26.14418