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Compressive force required to form a toroid is well within packing motor capabilities (25 pN for toroids >10 bp). Plotted are DNA internal (elastic strain) energy (gray squares) and compressive force (black circles) as a function of toroid size. DNA is initially nearly straight while the top boundary descends in the tube one basepair (3.4 Å) at a time.
