Browsing Waterloo Research by Subject "Consequences"
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Effects of molecular crowding and confinement on the spatial organization of a biopolymer
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016-10-25)A chain molecule can be entropically collapsed in a crowded medium in a free or confined space. Here, we present a unified view of how molecular crowding collapses a flexible polymer in three distinct spaces: free, ... -
A ring-polymer model shows how macromolecular crowding controls chromosome-arm organization in Escherichia coli
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-09-19)Macromolecular crowding influences various cellular processes such as macromolecular association and transcription, and is a key determinant of chromosome organization in bacteria. The entropy of crowders favors compaction ...