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. 2014 Oct 21;107(8):1924–1929. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.09.002

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(a) Optimal DNA toroid shapes for several different lengths of DNA corresponding to well-known phages (22) (see text for details). Only the upper halves of the cross sections are shown. (b) The calculated correction to turgor pressure ΔΠ (see main text) for the DNA condensate in the cell as a function of genome length arising from the surface Fsurf and bending Fbend free energies.