Both microscopic and macroscopic models of DNA flexibility should lead to the same
quantitative description of the elastic properties of the DNA helix. This belief is reinforced by …

DNA loo** is generated by a protein or complex of proteins that simultaneously binds to
two different sites on a DNA molecule. Consequently, the intervening tens to thousands of …

The classical Fourier transform is one of the most widely used mathematical tools in
engineering. However, few engineers know that extensions of harmonic analysis to …

Abstract We used Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the conformational and
thermodynamic properties of DNA molecules with physiological levels of supercoiling. Three …

Unusual cell wall structure and resistance to microbial degradation led to an investigation of
resistant biopolymers in Coleochaete (Chlorophyta, class Charophyceae), a green alga on …

Effective initiation of transcription, especially in eukaryotes, requires the specific assembly of
large protein complexes at promoters. We ask here how activator proteins that are bound …

In this work, we demonstrate that it is possible to determine the molar cyclization factor j M
from single ligation reactions in which both circular and linear dimer DNA species are …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses experimental approaches to the measurement of
ring closure probability (J factor or Jacobson–Stockmayer factor) and the theory used to …

Experimentally motivated parameters from a base‐pair‐level discrete DNA model are
averaged to yield parameters for a continuum elastic rod with a curved unstressed shape …

Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 Received
December 18, 1989 abstract: We determined the magnitude of the bend induced in DNA by …