Odijk, Theo; Ubbink, Job - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 252 (1998) 1, pp. 61-66
A dimensional relation between the superhelical pitch angle and the superhelical radius is derived for plectonemic DNA. A uniform classical Hamiltonian is extracted from the free energy of the supercoil. The DNA superhelix may be perturbed by a variety of sources, but this does not alter the...