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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-5-11
pubmed:abstractText
In-plane deformations of an elastic ring are analyzed as a model for structural distortions of small covalently-closed DNA rings with little or no writhe. The static conformation of an unconstrained elastic ring is a geometric circle, but thermal fluctuations away from the circle are found to be significant. An elastic ring confined in a cylindrical pore of rigid radius less than the radius of the free ring is studied as a model for a small DNA ring in a tight resolving gel. The model is extended to include deformability of the pore. Larger rings are relatively more deformed in the pore than smaller ones. This result may be pertinent to the observation that at constant linking number the mobility of small DNA rings in a resolving gel decreases as the number of base pairs increases.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0739-1102
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
657-73
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
An elastic model for in-plane deformations of small DNA rings.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.