DNA nanotweezers studied with a coarse-grained model of DNA
arXiv:0911.0555 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.178101
Abstract
We introduce a coarse-grained rigid nucleotide model of DNA that reproduces the basic thermodynamics of short strands: duplex hybridization, single-stranded stacking and hairpin formation, and also captures the essential structural properties of DNA: the helical pitch, persistence length and torsional stiffness of double-stranded molecules, as well as the comparative flexibility of unstacked single strands. We apply the model to calculate the detailed free-energy landscape of one full cycle of DNA 'tweezers', a simple machine driven by hybridization and strand displacement.
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