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It appears that thermally activated DNA bubbles of different sizes play central roles in important genetic processes. Here we show that the probability for the formation of such bubbles is regulated by the number of soft AT pairs in…
We have recently suggested that the probability for the formation of thermally activated DNA bubbles is, to a very good approximation, proportional to the number of soft AT pairs over a length L(n) that depend on the size $n$ of the bubble…
We investigate the melting transition of non-supercoiled circular DNA of different lengths, employing Brownian dynamics simulation. In the absence of supercoiling, we find that melting of circular DNA is driven by a large bubble, which…
The local opening of DNA is an intriguing phenomenon from a statistical physics point of view, but is also essential for its biological function. For instance, the transcription and replication of our genetic code can not take place without…
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In the framework of the Poland Scheraga model of DNA denaturation, we derive a recursion relation for the partition function of double stranded DNA, allowing for mismatches between the two strands. This relation is studied numerically using…
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