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Base pair fluctuations in helical models for nucleic acids
Marco Zoli
A statistical method is developed to estimate the maximum amplitude of the base pair fluctuations in a three dimensional mesoscopic model for nucleic acids. The base pair thermal v…
First-passage probability: a test for DNA Hamiltonian parameters
Marco Zoli
A method is proposed to select the suitable sets of potential parameters for a one-dimensional mesoscopic Hamiltonian model, first introduced to describe the DNA melting transition…
Stretching DNA in hard-wall potential channels
Marco Zoli
A three dimensional mesoscopic model is applied to study the properties of short DNA chains in a confining environment. The cylindrical channel is represented by a hard-wall repuls…
Mesoscopic model for nano-channel confined DNA
Marco Zoli
I present a Hamiltonian model and a computational method suitable to evaluate structural and thermodynamic properties of helical molecules embedded in crowded environments which ma…
DNA size in confined environments
Marco Zoli
For short DNA molecules in crowded environments, we evaluate macroscopic parameters such as the average end-to-end distance and the twist conformation by tuning the strength of the…
Short DNA persistence length in a mesoscopic helical model
Marco Zoli
The flexibility of short DNA chains is investigated via computation of the average correlation function between dimers which defines the persistence length. Path integration techni…