Decomposition of the linking number of a closed ribbon: A problem from molecular biology.

نویسنده

  • F B Fuller
چکیده

A closed duplex DNA molecule relaxed and containing nucleosomes has a different linking number from the same molecule relaxed and without nucleosomes. What does this say about the structure of the nucleosome? A mathematical study of this question is made, representing the DNA molecule by a ribbon. It is shown that the linking number of a closed ribbon can be decomposed into the linking number of a reference ribbon plus a sum of locally determined "linking differences."

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

دوره 75 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1978