A Research Team from SISSA Studied the Passage of Knotted DNA through Nanopores (IMAGE)

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A Research Team from SISSA Studied the Passage of Knotted DNA through Nanopores

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How can long DNA filaments, which have convoluted and highly knotted structure, manage to pass through the tiny pores of various biological systems? This is the fascinating question addressed by Antonio Suma and Cristian Micheletti, researchers at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste who used computer simulations to investigate the options available to the genetic material in such situations. The study has just been published in PNAS, the journal of the National Academy of Sciences of the Unites States.

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Antonio Suma, SISSA

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