Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7376463 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 2018 18 Pages PDF
Abstract
We find that the free energy of the stretched but untwisted DNA, is significantly modified from its infinitely length value and this in turn modifies significantly the torque and supercoiling. We show that this is consistent with short DNA being more flexible than infinitely long DNA. We hope our results will stimulate experimental investigation of torque and supercoiling in short DNA.
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