Best packing in proteins and DNA

Andrzej Stasiak () and John H. Maddocks ()
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Andrzej Stasiak: Laboratoire d'Analyse Ultrastructurale, Université de Lausanne
John H. Maddocks: Department of Mathematics Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Nature, 2000, vol. 406, issue 6793, 251-252

Abstract: A new simulation provides answers to such questions as the best way to pack a long rope into a small box. Some of the optimal shapes correspond to the naturally occurring, helical structures of proteins and DNA.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35018674

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