Model of DNA thicket found in Escherichia coli bacteria. It is densely packed and tense like a tangle of watch springs. Researchers hypothesize that it is in constant motion and transports large protein molecules called transcription factors to sites where the factors go to work. The researchers have built a very large, unique simulation to test this hypothesis.

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College of Sciences, News Room, Research Horizons

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Research, Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics, Computer Science/Information Technology and Security, Engineering, Life Sciences and Biology

Keywords

dna, Brownian, LacI, Edmond Chow, Jeffrey Skolnick, computational simulation, computational model

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• Created By: Ben Brumfield
• Workflow Status: Published
• Created On: Jun 12, 2017 - 10:12am
• Last Updated: Jun 12, 2017 - 12:56pm