화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.101, No.6, 5186-5200, 1994
The Kirchhoff Elastic Rod, the Nonlinear Schrodinger-Equation, and DNA Supercoiling
We have derived a time-independent, one-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation for the stationary state configurations of supercoiled DNA. The effect of DNA self-contact has been included analytically. For the cases of non-self-contact and periodic boundary conditions, closed-form solutions have been obtained which describe the stationary state configurations of supercoiled DNA.