A Model of DNA Knotting and Linking

Authors

Erica Flapan, Pomona CollegeFollow
Dorothy Buck, Imperial College London

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Department

Mathematics (Pomona)

Publication Date

2007

Keywords

DNA, knots, recombination, substrate

Abstract

We present a model of how DNA knots and links are formed as a result of a single recombination event, or multiple rounds of (processive) recombination events, starting with an unknotted, unlinked, or a (2,m)-torus knot or link substrate. Given these substrates, according to our model all DNA products of a single recombination event or processive recombination fall into a single family of knots and links.

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Buck, Dorothy and Erica Flapan. A Model of DNA Knotting and Linking. Knot Theory for Scientific Objects, ed. Akio Kawauchi. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Knot Theory for Scientific Objects: OCAMI Studies Vol 1(1), 2007, 75-83.