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ArticleScientific reports2022

Knot formation of dsDNA pushed inside a nanochannel.

Jan Rothörl, Sarah Wettermann, Peter Virnau, Aniket Bhattacharya

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Jan RothörlInstitut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 9, 55099, Mainz, Germany.
Sarah WettermannInstitut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 9, 55099, Mainz, Germany.
Peter VirnauInstitut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 9, 55099, Mainz, Germany. virnau@uni-mainz.de.
Aniket BhattacharyaDepartment of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816-2385, USA. Aniket.Bhattacharya@ucf.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent experiments demonstrated that knots in single molecule dsDNA can be formed by compression in a nanochannel. In this manuscript, we further elucidate the underlying molecular mechanisms by carrying out a compression experiment in silico, where an equilibrated coarse-grained double-stranded DNA confined in a square channel is pushed by a piston. The probability of forming knots is a non-monotonic function of the persistence length and can be enhanced significantly by increasing the piston speed. Under compression knots are abundant and delocalized due to a backfolding mechanism from which chain-spanning loops emerge, while knots are less frequent and only weakly localized in equilibrium. Our in silico study thus provides insights into the formation, origin and control of DNA knots in nanopores.

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PMID35351953
PMCPMC8964721

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