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| June
11, 2020, post by Dave Santos Bio-Molecular Reels and Tape Recorders Suggest Novel Kite-Reeling Designs DNA supercoils at several scales up to the bulk chromosome scale. Just above basic helical coiling of DNA comes coiling of the strand around specialized reel molecules called Histones. Oddly, a bit of DNA strand goes around a histone a couple of times, then the next bit around another histone a couple of times, and so on all along the strand. This might seem like a nutty way to coil a long strand, but it has the wonderful property of allowing direct local access to any portion of the line, compared to a reeling a bunch a line together in one bulk coil. This biological model suggests a new kind of kite reel of many sub-reels, whereby a stored kiteline of various sections and connections can be inspected and components hot-swapped. Such sub-reels might also act as passive or active capstans. Imagine a book format of flat winders, each wrapped with an individual section of a long line assembly. Changes would be easy; damaged sections could be accessed and replaced. An alternate access method is reel-to-reel, editing a line assembly like an old tape recorder. A kite arch, mesh, or 2D lattice could reel back and forth in various sections matched to varied wind velocity and load. The Histone model could be the key to optimal field operation. Open-AWE_IP-Cloud |
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