Characterization of knots and links arising from site-specific recombination on twist knots

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/4/045002MaRDI QIDQ3074679zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dorothy Buck, Karin Valencia

Publication date 10 February 2011

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2115

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Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40)

Abstract: We develop a model characterizing all possible knots and links arising from recombination starting with a twist knot substrate, extending previous work of Buck and Flapan. We show that all knot or link products fall into three well-understood families of knots and links, and prove that given a positive integer $n$, the number of product knots and links with minimal crossing number equal to $n$ grows proportionally to $n^5$. In the (common) case of twist knot substrates whose products have minimal crossing number one more than the substrate, we prove that the types of products are tightly prescribed. Finally, we give two simple examples to illustrate how this model can help determine previously uncharacterized experimental data.

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