scholarly journals Geometric Gait Design for a Starfish‐Inspired Robot Using a Planar Discrete Elastic Rod Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 1900186
Author(s):  
William L. Scott ◽  
Derek A. Paley
2009 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Eslami-Mossallam ◽  
M. R. Ejtehadi

1999 ◽  
Vol 83 (23) ◽  
pp. 4900-4903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Balaeff ◽  
L. Mahadevan ◽  
Klaus Schulten

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 377 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Bouchiat ◽  
M. Mézard

Soft Matter ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (32) ◽  
pp. 7544-7555
Author(s):  
Robert Welch ◽  
Sarah A. Harris ◽  
Oliver G. Harlen ◽  
Daniel J. Read

KOBRA is a coarse-grained algorithm for parameterising and simulating slender proteins using Kirchoff rods.


Author(s):  
Todd D. Lillian

The well-recognized Lac repressor protein (LacI) regulates transcription by bending DNA into a loop. In addition to the known role of DNA flexibility, there is accumulating evidence suggesting that the flexibility of LacI also plays a role in this gene regulation. Here we extend our elastic rod model for DNA (previously used to model DNA only) to represent LacI. Specifically, we represent sites of concentrated flexibility in the protein with flexible elastic rod domains; and we represent relatively rigid domains of the protein with stiff elastic rod domains. Our analysis shows the sensitivity of looping energetics to the degree of flexibility within the protein over a large range of DNA lengths. In addition, we show that the predicted energetically dominant binding topology (A) remains upon introducing protein flexibility.


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