Statistical models for nucleic acids
Soft Condensed Matter
2023-09-11 v1 Biological Physics
Biomolecules
Abstract
ds-RNA and standard ds-DNA show specific structural differences in their di-nucleotide steps, piled along the helical axis. Modeling the helices of short fragments by a 3D mesoscopic Hamiltonian model, I use path integral techniques to compute the average helical repeat and show that these structural features are at the origin of the opposite twist-stretch patterns of the A- and B- form.
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@article{arxiv.2309.04163,
title = {Statistical models for nucleic acids},
author = {Marco Zoli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.04163},
year = {2023}
}
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International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Physical Sciences August 28-31, 2023, Belgrade, Serbia