A simple model for the relative stabilities of DNA hairpin structure
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
q-bio
Abstract
A model of self-avoiding walk with suitable constraints on self-attraction is developed to describe the conformational behaviour of a single stranded short DNA molecule that form hairpin structure. Using exact enumeration method we calculate the properties associated with coil-hairpin transition. Our results are in qualitative agreement with the experiment.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0205277,
title = {A simple model for the relative stabilities of DNA hairpin structure},
author = {Debaprasad Giri and Sanjay Kumar and Yashwant Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0205277},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages (in Revtex4), 4 eps figs.; submitted to Phys. Rev. E