Knotted folds induced by homochiral all-parallel (or all-antiparallel) double-helices
Abstract Many biomolecules and their synthetic counterparts preferentially assemble into double-helices with a preferred handedness and parallelism, such as all-antiparallel, right-handed double-helical polymorphs of DNA and RNA favored under ambient conditions by Watson–Crick duplexing. We analyze knots formed by doub...