Base pair dynamic assisted charge transport in DNA
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1 q-bio
Abstract
An 1d model with time-dependent random hopping is proposed to describe charge transport in DNA. It admits to investigate both diffusion of electrons and their tunneling between different sites in DNA. The tunneling appears to be strongly temperature-dependent. Observations of a strong (exponential) as well as a weak distance dependence of the charge transfer in DNA can be explained in the framework of our model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0201075,
title = {Base pair dynamic assisted charge transport in DNA},
author = {E. I. Kats and V. V. Lebedev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0201075},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, Revtex, accepted to JETP Letters, 75 (2002)