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DNA toroid condensation as analytic solutions

Soft Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics Biomolecules

Abstract

It now becomes apparent that condensed DNA toroid which emerges in a poor solvent condition can be realised in the framework of the non-linear sigma model on a line segment. In fact, the classical solutions of the model, i.e., of the bending potential exhibit toroidal forms, and fit well with the delta-function term of the attractive interaction. The proposed theory is in good agreement with experimental observations that the toroid is the ground state. In this paper, we give a rigorous proof that the solutions are indeed the exact solutions of the equations of motion with the first derivatives of the attractive interaction term. We also show a refined mapping to experimental data, considering the finite size effects of the cross section and of the chain length.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0701737,
  title  = {DNA toroid condensation as analytic solutions},
  author = {Yukitaka Ishimoto and Norio Kikuchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0701737},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures (colour)