Denaturation of Heterogeneous DNA
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Denaturation of Heterogeneous DNA
The effect of heterogeneous sequence composition on the denaturation of double stranded DNA is investigated. The resulting pair-binding energy variation is found to have a negligible effect on the critical properties of the smooth second order melting transition in the simplest (Peyrard-Bishop) model. However, sequence heterogeneity is dramatically amplified upon adopting a more realistic treat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.79.2375