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Emergence of information transmission in a prebiotic RNA reactor
B. Obermayer, H. Krammer, D. Braun +1
A poorly understood step in the transition from a chemical to a biological world is the emergence of self-replicating molecular systems. We study how a precursor for such a replica…
Anomalous scaling in nanopore translocation of structured heteropolymers
Malcolm McCauley, Robert Forties, Ulrich Gerland +1
Translocation through a nanopore is a new experimental technique to probe physical properties of biomolecules. A bulk of theoretical and computational work exists on the dependence…
Optimal flexibility for conformational transitions in macromolecules
Richard A. Neher, Wolfram Mobius, Erwin Frey +1
Conformational transitions in macromolecular complexes often involve the reorientation of lever-like structures. Using a simple theoretical model, we show that the rate of such tra…
Coupled dynamics of RNA folding and nanopore translocation
Ralf Bundschuh, Ulrich Gerland
The translocation of structured RNA or DNA molecules through narrow pores necessitates the opening of all base pairs. Here, we study the interplay between the dynamics of transloca…
An intermediate phase in DNA melting
Richard A. Neher, Ulrich Gerland
We predict a novel temperature-driven phase transition of DNA below the melting transition. The additional, intermediate phase exists for repetitive sequences, when the two strands…
DNA as a programmable viscoelastic nanoelement
Richard A. Neher, Ulrich Gerland
The two strands of a DNA molecule with a repetitive sequence can pair into many different basepairing patterns. For perfectly periodic sequences, early bulk experiments of Poerschk…