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arXiv 0905.2057cond-mat.soft
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作为赝标液晶的长DNA分子

Long DNA molecule as a pseudoscalar liquid crystal

K. G. Petrosyan, Chin-Kun Hu

摘要:

我们表明,一个长的DNA分子可以形成一种新的凝聚相的物质,赝标量液晶,它由非周期性有序的DNA片段在右手的B和左手的Z形式。我们讨论了B-DNA通过一级相变转化为Z-DNA的可能性,以及从零总手性相通过二级相变转化为纯B-或Z-DNA样品的可能性。提出的最小唯象模型描述了DNA的赝标液晶相和相变现象。我们指出的一种可能性,赝标量液晶纳米晶体可以通过DNA编程组装。

英文摘要:

We show that a long DNA molecule can form a novel condensed phase of matter, the pseudoscalar liquid crystal, that consists of aperiodically ordered DNA fragments in right-handed B and left-handed Z forms. We discuss the possibility of transformation of B-DNA into Z-DNA and vice versa via first-order phase transitions as well as transformations from the phase with zero total chirality into pure B- or Z-DNA samples through second-order phase transitions. The presented minimalistic phenomenological model describes the pseudoscalar liquid crystal phase of DNA and the phase transition phenomena. We point out to a possibility that a pseudoscalar liquid nano-crystal can be assembled via DNA-programming.

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