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arXiv 2008.08841physics.bio-phcond-mat.stat-mechphysics.comp-phq-bio.BM
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DNA中气泡寿命和气泡长度的分布

Distributions of Bubble Lifetimes and Bubble Lengths in DNA

Malcolm Hillebrand, George Kalosakas, Haris Skokos, Alan Bishop

摘要:

我们研究了在生理温度下DNA中气泡寿命和气泡长度的分布,通过进行广泛的分子动力学模拟与Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois(PBD)模型,以及一个扩展的版本(ePBD)具有序列依赖的堆叠相互作用,强调这些分布的影响序列的鸟嘌呤-胞嘧啶(GC)/腺嘌呤-胸腺嘧啶(AT)的内容。对于这两种模型,我们发现,碱基对依赖性(GC与AT)的阈值,考虑互补的核苷酸被分离是能够重现所观察到的依赖性的DNA序列的GC含量上的解链温度。使用这些阈值的碱基对开口,我们得到的气泡的长度高达10个碱基对的序列的GC含量是不同的,这是准确地拟合拉伸指数函数的气泡寿命分布。我们发现,对于这两种模型的平均气泡寿命减少,无论是增加气泡长度或GC含量。此外,得到的气泡长度分布也适合适当的拉伸指数函数和我们的研究结果表明,短气泡有类似的可能性,任何GC含量,但较长的是更有可能发生在AT丰富的序列。我们还表明,ePBD模型允许更多的,更长的寿命,比PBD系统的泡沫。

英文摘要:

We investigate the distribution of bubble lifetimes and bubble lengths in DNA at physiological temperature, by performing extensive molecular dynamics simulations with the Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois (PBD) model, as well as an extended version (ePBD) having a sequence-dependent stacking interaction, emphasizing the effect of the sequences' guanine-cytosine (GC)/adenine-thymine (AT) content on these distributions. For both models we find that base pair-dependent (GC vs AT) thresholds for considering complementary nucleotides to be separated are able to reproduce the observed dependence of the melting temperature on the GC content of the DNA sequence. Using these thresholds for base pair openings, we obtain bubble lifetime distributions for bubbles of lengths up to ten base pairs as the GC content of the sequences is varied, which are accurately fitted with stretched exponential functions. We find that for both models the average bubble lifetime decreases with increasing either the bubble length or the GC content. In addition, the obtained bubble length distributions are also fitted by appropriate stretched exponential functions and our results show that short bubbles have similar likelihoods for any GC content, but longer ones are substantially more likely to occur in AT-rich sequences. We also show that the ePBD model permits more, longer-lived, bubbles than the PBD system.

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