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 2. Linking number distributions of knotted DNA with chirality. (a) 160 nm, L51 DNA knot; (b) 160 nm, R51 DNA knot; (c) 160 nm, L31 DNA knot; (d) 160 nm, R31 DNA knot. In each figure, from outside to inside, the excitation energies are 4kBT, 6kBT, 8kBT, 10kBT, and ∞ (B-DNA), respectively. Typical conformations are illustrated in inset of each figure and the excitation energy corresponding to each conformation is 10kBT.