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Base Pair Openings and Temperature Dependence of DNA Flexibility
Nikos Theodorakopoulos, Michel Peyrard
The relationship of base pair openings to DNA flexibility is examined. Published experimental data on the temperature dependence of the persistence length by two different groups a…
Bubbles, clusters and denaturation in genomic DNA: modeling, parametrization, efficient computation
Nikos Theodorakopoulos
The paper uses mesoscopic, non-linear lattice dynamics based (Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois, PBD) modeling to describe thermal properties of DNA below and near the denaturation temperatur…
The thermal denaturation of DNA studied with neutron scattering
Andrew Wildes, Nikos Theodorakopoulos, Jessica Valle Orero +3
The melting transition of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), whereby the strands of the double helix structure completely separate at a certain temperature, has been characterized using…
DNA denaturation bubbles at criticality
Nikos Theodorakopoulos
The equilibrium statistical properties of DNA denaturation bubbles are examined in detail within the framework of the Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois model. Bubble formation in homogeneous…
Phase transitions in one dimension: are they all driven by domain walls?
N. Theodorakopoulos
Two known distinct examples of one-dimensional systems which are known to exhibit a phase transition are critically examined: (A) a lattice model with harmonic nearest-neighbor ela…
Nonlinear structures and thermodynamic instabilities in a one-dimensional lattice system
Nikos Theodorakopoulos, Michel Peyrard, Robert S. MacKay
The equilibrium states of the discrete Peyrard-Bishop Hamiltonian with one end fixed are computed exactly from the two-dimensional nonlinear Morse map. These exact nonlinear struct…