A simple model for the relative stabilities of DNA hairpin structure
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Debaprasad Giri, Sanjay Kumar and Yashwant Singh Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, India Centre for Theoretical Studies, IIT, Kharagpur 721 302, India (Dated: February 1, 2008) Abstract A model of self-avoiding walk with suitable constraints on self-attraction is developed to describe the conformational behaviour of a single stranded short DNA molecule that form hairpin structure. Using exact enumeration method we calculate the properties associated with coil-hairpin transition. Our results are in qualitative agreement with the experiment.
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