Coarse-graining DNA: Symmetry, non-local elasticity and persistence length
arXiv:2206.01504 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.058402
Abstract
While the behavior of double stranded DNA at mesoscopic scales is fairly well understood, less is known about its relation to the rich mechanical properties in the base-pair scale, which is crucial, for instance, to understand DNA-protein interactions and the nucleosome diffusion mechanism. Here, by employing the rigid base pair model, we connect its microscopic parameters to the persistence length. Combined with all-atom molecular dynamic simulations, our scheme identifies relevant couplings between different degrees of freedom at each coarse-graining step. This allows us to clarify how the scale dependence of the elastic moduli is determined in a systematic way encompassing the role of previously unnoticed off site couplings between deformations with different parity.
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