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 7. Simulated distribution of ρ(△Lk, K) and ρ(△Lk), these simulations are carried out for circular DNA with 800 nm in length at excited energy 8kBT and ∞. The distribution ρ(ΔLk, K) corresponding to different knots is indicated by separate peaks and the distribution ρ(ΔLk), the summation of ρ(ΔLk, K) over K, is represented by wine line.