Influences of flexible defect on the interplay of supercoiling and knotting of circular DNA*

Caiyun Xiong,Xiaolin Nie,Yixue Peng,Xun Zhou,Yangtao Fan,Hu Chen,Yanhui Liu

Figure 1. Writhe number distributions of knotted DNA with chirality. (a) 80 nm, L51, 01 and R51 knotted DNA; (b) 80 nm, L31, 01 and R31 knotted DNA, (c) 160 nm, L51, 01 and R51 knotted DNA; (d) 160 nm, L31, 01 and R31 knotted DNA. In each figure, from outside to inside, the excitation energies are 4kBT, 6kBT, 8kBT, 10kBT and ∞ (B-DNA), respectively.