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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Pharm Biotechnol. 2009 Aug;10(5):494–501. doi: 10.2174/138920109788922155

Table 2.

Segment lengths (nm) for DNA loops secured by two protein particles (shown in Figure 6).

Segment a b c d e

DNA molecule Directly juxtaposed operators

expected 129.0 14.0 125.7 13.0 237.5

1 126.8 20.2 113.7 19.6 233.4
2 127.1 14.1 123.2 16.5 238.4
3 125.2 11.7 113.0 13.6 221.8
4 125.3 20.0 117.9 17.7 222.6
5 124.0 19.5 104.3 20.4 231.2

mean 125.7 17.1 114.4 17.6 229.5

Staggered operators

expected 116.8 14.7 142.2 14.7 230.0

6 116.1 18.5 123.7 15.9 223.1

7 119.3 16.5 130.9 18.0 231.1