How molecular knots can pass through each other
Biological Physics
2016-10-20 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Biomolecules
Abstract
We propose a mechanism in which two molecular knots pass through each other and swap positions along a polymer strand. Associated free energy barriers in our simulations only amount to a few , which may enable the interchange of knots on a single DNA strand.
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@article{arxiv.1407.3157,
title = {How molecular knots can pass through each other},
author = {Benjamin Trefz and Jonathan Siebert and Peter Virnau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.3157},
year = {2016}
}
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6 pages, 7 figures