on Friday, July 9, 2010

Author(s): Yih-Fan Chen, J. N. Milstein, and Jens-Christian Meiners

Living cells provide a fluctuating, out-of-equilibrium environment in which genes must coordinate cellular function. DNA looping, which is a common means of regulating transcription, is very much a stochastic process; the loops arise from the thermal motion of the DNA and other fluctuations of the c...

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 258103] Published Thu Jun 24, 2010