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Strong fluctuations in DNA Unzipping
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Strong fluctuations in DNA Unzipping |
Author |
Sitichoke Amnuanpol* |
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sitichok@tu.ac.th |
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Abstract: In a living cell two strands of nucleotides forming a double helix are unbound, in response to enzymatic force, to the independent strands. Such force-induced structural transformation of DNA is studied in the context of phase transition. Fluctuations around a double helix, which is the ground-state energy configuration, are so strong that the mean field description is no longer valid. Treating two strands of nucleotides as the one dimensional continuous entities interacting via a potential, the growth of the helix wavevector under recursion relations, derived by the momentum shell renormalization group, accounts for the rapidly spatial variation of two unbound strands.
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Start & End Page |
980 - 989 |
Received Date |
2013-11-26 |
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Accepted Date |
2014-03-07 |
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Keyword |
DNA unzipping, force-extension curve, momentum shell renormalization group |
Volume |
Vol.42 No.4 (OCTOBER 2015) |
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Citation |
Amnuanpol* S., Strong fluctuations in DNA Unzipping, Chiang Mai Journal of Science, 2015; 42(4): 980-989. |
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