Anisotropic Elastic Model for Short DNA Loops
Soft Condensed Matter
2008-09-17 v2 Materials Science
Biomolecules
Abstract
Effect of bending anisotropy on a planar DNA loop, using energy minimization and neglecting entropic effects, is studied. We show that the anisotropy results in polygonal shape of the loop and increasing the anisotropy makes the edges sharper. Calculating the energy of such a loop lets us to find effective persistence length as the geometrical mean of hard and soft rigidities, which is quite different from harmonic mean for an unconstrained long DNA.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0605086,
title = {Anisotropic Elastic Model for Short DNA Loops},
author = {G. Bijani and N. Hamedani Radja and F. Mohammad-Rafiee and M. R. Ejtehadi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0605086},
year = {2008}
}
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4 pages and one figure