Knotting probability of DNA molecules confined in restricted volumes: DNA knotting in phage capsids.
When linear double-stranded DNA is packed inside bacteriophage capsids, it becomes highly compacted. However, the phage is believed to be fully effective only if the DNA is not entangled. Nevertheless, when DNA is extracted from a tailless mutant of the P4 phage, DNA is found to be cyclic and knotte...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2002
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