Scaling in DNA unzipping models: denaturated loops and end-segments as branches of a block copolymer network
arXiv:cond-mat/0205125 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.66.021804
Abstract
For a model of DNA denaturation, exponents describing the distributions of denaturated loops and unzipped end-segments are determined by exact enumeration and by Monte Carlo simulations in two and three dimensions. The loop distributions are consistent with first order thermal denaturation in both cases. Results for end-segments show a coexistence of two distinct power laws in the relative distributions, which is not foreseen by a recent approach in which DNA is treated as a homogeneous network of linear polymer segments. This unexpected feature, and the discrepancies with such an approach, are explained in terms of a refined scaling picture in which a precise distinction is made between network branches representing single stranded and effective double stranded segments.
arXiv comment8 pages, 8 figures
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