Figure 9.
Plot of the average distance between nearest-neighbor DNA beads, 〈DNN〉, as a function of the effective volume fraction of crowders, ρ, in the central part of the confinement sphere (r < 60nm, + symbols), as well as the outer shell (r ≥ 60 nm, × symbols). These results were obtained from the same simulations with P = 0 as Figure 8. The horizontal dashed line shows the average distance between the centers of the DNA-binding sites of non-associating protein chains in simulations involving only these chains, and the dot-dashed lines the fluctuations of this distance around the mean value.