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Topological Analysis of Enzymatic Actions on DNA

邱文元Guang Hu · ZeWang ·Wen-Yuan Qiu

Bull Math Biol (2011) 73:3030–3046,-0001,():

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Current synthetic biology has witnessed a revolution that natural DNA molecule steps onto a broad scientific area by assembling a large variety of threedimensional structures with the connectivity of polyhedra. A mathematical model of these biomolecules is crucial to clarify the biological self-assembly principle, and unravel a first-step understanding of biological regulation and controlling mechanisms. In this paper, mechanisms of two different enzymatic actions on DNA polyhedra are elucidated through theoretical models of polyhedral links: (1) topoisomerase that untangles DNA polyhedral links produces separated single-stranded DNA circles through the crossing change operation; (2) recombinase generates a class of polyhedral circular paths or polyhedral knots by applying the crossing smoothing operation. Furthermore, we also discuss the possibility of applying two theoretical operations in molecular design of DNA polyhedra. Thus, our research provides a new sight of how geometry and topology of DNA polyhedra can be manipulated and controlled by enzymes, as well as has implications for molecular design and structural analysis of structural genome organization.

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