2007
Time scale of entropic segregation of flexible polymers in confinement: implications for chromosome segregation in filamentous bacteria
Publication
Publication
Phys. Rev. E , Volume 76 - Issue 3, Article number: 31901 p. 1- 5
We report molecular dynamics simulations of the segregation of two overlapping chains in cylindrical confinement. We find that the entropic repulsion between chains can be sufficiently strong to cause segregation on a time scale that is short compared to the one for diffusion. This result implies that entropic driving forces are sufficiently strong to cause rapid bacterial chromosome segregation.
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Arnold, A., & Jun, S. (2007). Time scale of entropic segregation of flexible polymers in confinement: implications for chromosome segregation in filamentous bacteria. Phys. Rev. E, 76(3, Article number: 31901), 1–5. doi:10.1103/physreve.76.031901 |
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