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Antiparallel implied no M obius bands

MATH:7450 (22M:305) Topics in Topology: Scientific and Engineering Applications of Algebraic Topology Nov 8, 2013: DNA Topology Fall 2013 course offered through the University of Iowa Division of Continuing Education Isabel K. Darcy, Department of Mathematics

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Antiparallel implied no M obius bands

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  1. MATH:7450 (22M:305) Topics in Topology: Scientific and Engineering Applications of Algebraic Topology Nov 8, 2013: DNA Topology Fall 2013 course offered through the University of Iowa Division of Continuing Education Isabel K. Darcy, Department of Mathematics Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Iowa http://www.math.uiowa.edu/~idarcy/AppliedTopology.html

  2. Antiparallel implied no Mobius bands

  3. Twist http://cmgm.stanford.edu/biochem201/Handouts/DNAtopo.html

  4. Writhe http://bioweb.wku.edu/courses/biol22000/6StructureNA/

  5. Crossing Sign Determination Right-hand Rule Right-handed Crossing +1 Left-handed Crossing -1

  6. Writhe http://bioweb.wku.edu/courses/biol22000/6StructureNA/

  7. Linking number

  8. Linking number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_number

  9. Linking number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Labeled_Whitehead_Link.svg

  10. Linking number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_number

  11. http://bioweb.wku.edu/courses/biol22000/6StructureNA/

  12. Linking Number = Twist + Writhe http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~biotext/animations/topology2.html

  13. http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/images/dna_replicating.gifhttp://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/images/dna_replicating.gif http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/magnus/molecules/nucleic/dna1.jpg

  14. (J. Mann) http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/herrin/bio344/ Postow L. et.al. PNAS;2001;98:8219-8226

  15. Topoisomerase II performing a crossing change on DNA: Cellular roles of DNA topoisomerases: a molecular perspective, James C. Wang, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 3, 430-440 (June 2002)

  16. Topoisomerases are involved in • Replication • Transcription • Unknotting, unlinking, supercoiling. • Targets of many anti-cancer drugs.

  17. Topoisomerases are proteins which cut one segment of DNA allowing a second DNA segment to pass through before resealing the break.

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