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 8. The central panel corresponds to the contour maps of the probability distribution ρ(Rg, Lknot) of knotted DNA for three different excitation energies 4kBT, 6kBT and 10kBT. The side panels show the marginal distribution of Rg and Lknot. The contour length for knotted DNA in (a) and (b) is 500 nm and 800 nm, respectively.