Essays about: "Fractal Globule"

Found 1 essay containing the words Fractal Globule.

  1. 1. Diffusion in fractal globules

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för fysik

    Author : Jakob Hariz; [2016]
    Keywords : Fractal Globule; Anomalous Diffusion; Diffusion; DNA;

    Abstract : Recent experiments suggest that the human genome (all of our DNA) is organised as a so-called fractal globule. The fractal globule is a knot--free dense polymer that easily folds and unfolds any genomic locus, for example a group of nearby genes. Proteins often need to locate specific target sites on the DNA, for instance to activate a gene. READ MORE