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Plectoneme tip bubbles : coupled denaturation and writhing in supercoiled DNA
- Abstract:
- We predict a novel conformational regime for DNA, where denaturation bubbles form at the tips of plectonemes, and study its properties using coarse-grained simulations. For negative supercoiling, this regime lies between bubble-dominated and plectoneme-dominated phases, and explains the broad transition between the two observed in experiment. Tip bubbles cause localisation of plectonemes within thermodynamically weaker AT-rich sequences, and can greatly suppress plectoneme diffusion by a pinning mechanism. They occur for supercoiling densities and forces that are typically encountered for DNA in vivo, and may be exploited for biological control of genomic processes.
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- 5
- Article number:
- 7655
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- 2015-01-01
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2045-2322
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2045-2322
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English
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- 2015
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