Knotted and Linked Products of recombination on T(2,n)#T(2,m) Substrates

Authors

Erica Flapan, Pomona CollegeFollow
Jeremy Grevet, Carleton College
Qi Li, Princeton University
Chen Daisy Sun, Carleton College
Helen Wong, Carleton College

Document Type

Article

Department

Mathematics (Pomona)

Publication Date

2014

Keywords

DNA topology, DNA knots, site-specific recombination

Abstract

We develop a topological model of site-specific recombination that applies to substrates which are the connected sum of two torus links of the form T(2,n)#T(2,m). Then we use our model to prove that all knots and links that can be produced by site-specific recombination on such substrates are contained in one of two families, which we illustrate.

Comments

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Rights Information

© 2014 Korean Mathematical Society

DOI

10.4134/JKMS.2014.51.4.817

Recommended Citation

E. Flapan, J. Grevet, Q. Li, C. Sun, H. Wong, Knotted and Linked Products of Recombination on T(2, n)#T(2,m) Substrates, Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society, Vol 51, (2014) 817–836.