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. 2003 May;84(5):3197–3211. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)70044-7

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

The Kirchhoff kinetic analogy between the spinning top and the bent/twisted rod depicted for a special case: the plane pendulum–planar rod equivalence. The inset shows how an intranucleosomal loop can be constructed by inscribing the octamer (gray disk) into the bent rod. The nucleosome opening angle 2α accounts for the adsorption energy cost (see text for details).