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Protein-Mediated DNA Loops: Effects of Protein Bridge Size and Kinks
Nicolas Douarche, Simona Cocco
This paper focuses on the probability that a portion of DNA closes on itself through thermal fluctuations. We investigate the dependence of this probability upon the size r of a pr…
Slow nucleic acid unzipping kinetics from sequence-defined barriers
S. Cocco, J. F. Marko, R. Monasson
Recent experiments on unzipping of RNA helix-loop structures by force have shown that about 40-base molecules can undergo kinetic transitions between two well-defined `open' and `c…
Unzipping Dynamics of Long DNAs
S. Cocco, R. Monasson, J. F. Marko
The two strands of the DNA double helix can be `unzipped' by application of 15 pN force. We analyze the dynamics of unzipping and rezipping, for the case where the molecule ends ar…
Theoretical models for single-molecule DNA and RNA experiments: from elasticity to unzipping
S. Cocco, J. F. Marko, R. Monasson
We review statistical-mechanical theories of single-molecule micromanipulation experiments on nucleic acids. First, models for describing polymer elasticity are introduced. We then…