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Prog. Theor. Phys. Supplement No.191 (2011) pp. 55-65
Taxonomy of DNA Conformations within Complex Nucleoprotein Assemblies
Dorothy Buck1 and
Kenneth Lee Baker2
1Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, England
2Department of Mathematics, University of Miami, USA
(Received September 18, 2010)
Abstract:
Here we discuss the paradigms both for modelling complex
nucleoprotein assemblies as rational tangles, and the associated
enzymatic action as rational subtangle replacement.
We harness the correspondence between specific curves on the boundary
of a rational tangle and on the boundary of its branched double cover
to classify rational tangles of distance d ≥2 from a given
rational tangle, in turn limiting the underlying DNA geometry.
URL :
http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTPS/191/55/
DOI : 10.1143/PTPS.191.55
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