Untangling DNA

DOI10.1007/BF03024022zbMath0712.57002MaRDI QIDQ748964

De Witt Sumners

Publication date: 1990

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024022

zbMATH Keywords

tangles; 4- plats; Determination of Knots by their Complements; enzymology; geometry of DNA; Phage \(\lambda \) Integrase; site-specific recombination; tangle equations; Tn3 resolvase

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92C40: Biochemistry, molecular biology

92E10: Molecular structure (graph-theoretic methods, methods of differential topology, etc.)

Related Items

Statics and dynamics of DNA knotting, Unnamed Item, Unnamed Item, Tangles, Rational Knots and DNA, STICK AND RAMSEY NUMBERS OF TORUS LINKS, Stability of the Cauchy additive functional equation on tangle space and applications, Polymers with spatial or topological constraints: theoretical and computational results, Rational tangles, On the classification of rational tangles, The local topological free energy of proteins, Efficient Knot Discrimination via Quandle Coloring with SAT and #-SAT, Applications of Knot Theory: Using Knot Theory to Unravel Biochemistry Mysteries, Affine reflection groups for tiling applications: Knot theory and DNA, Statistical topology of closed curves: Some applications in polymer physics, Knot Theory, CNN: A Vision of Complexity, Stationary Structures in a Discrete Bistable Reaction–Diffusion System

Cites Work

• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• DNA and differential geometry
• Topological chirality of certain molecules
• The Science of Patterns
• To Have and Have Knot: When Are Knots Alike?
• A calculus for rational tangles: applications to DNA recombination
• A polynomial invariant for knots via von Neumann algebras
• Foliations and surgery on knots
• On Knots. (AM-115)
• Knots are determined by their complements
• Prime Knots and Tangles
• Polynomials for Links
• Knots
• Dehn surgery on knots