Kinetics of interior loop formation in semiflexible chains
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Kinetics of interior loop formation in semiflexible chains.
Loop formation between monomers in the interior of semiflexible chains describes elementary events in biomolecular folding and DNA bending. We calculate analytically the interior distance distribution function for semiflexible chains using a mean field approach. Using the potential of mean force derived from the distance distribution function we present a simple expression for the kinetics of i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.2178805