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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Biol. 2019 May 7;16(4):046005. doi: 10.1088/1478-3975/ab15a7

Table 1.

Simulation parameter values

Model Parameter Variable name Parameter value Physical units
Number of nodes n_nodes 50 500 kb
Frictional coefficient ζ 1.0 1.4×10−6 Kg/s
Equilibrium spring length Leq 1.0 100 nm
Spring constant ks 0.25 0.004 pN/nm
Nuclear radius nuc_radius 5 0.5 μm
Repulsive force constant for NE k_nuc 0.35 0.6 pN
Capture radius for pairing dist_capture 0.5 50 nm
Magnitude of Langevin random force σ 0.15 0.24 pN
Magnitude of telomere force ϕ 0.15–0.6 0.24 – 1 pN
Unpairing rate constant k_unpair 0.001–0.1 0.01 – 1.0 s−1