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 5. Effects of unwinding angle on the linking number distributions of L51 DNA knot. (a) 80 nm, μ = 8kBT; (b) 80 nm, μ = 4kBT; (c) 160 nm, μ = 8kBT; (d) 160 nm, μ = 4kBT. In each figure, from right to left, the unwinding angle per defect is φ = 0°, 26°, 51°, and 103°.$C^{\prime} $ = $\tfrac{C}{4}=18.75\,\mathrm{nm}$ was used in the calculation.