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arXiv 2108.06576physics.bio-ph
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DNA链上随机电子流与周期电子流的跃迁

Transition between random and periodic electron currents on a DNA chain

Elham Faraji, Roberto Franzosi, Stefano Mancini, Marco Pettini

摘要:

借助于一个受标准Davydov和Holstein-Fröhlich模型启发的模型,在本文中,我们研究了电子沿重粒子链的运动,该重粒子链模拟了DNA片段的核苷酸序列。本文从一个二次量子化的模型哈密顿量出发,利用含时变分原理导出了系统的动力学方程。研究发现,在外加能量源的作用下,电子电流根据激发位置的不同,既可以呈现宽频谱,也可以呈现尖峰频谱。这种依赖于序列的电荷转移现象暗示了在电子激发的作用下DNA分子可能具有丰富多样的电动相互作用。这可能意味着DNA和转录因子之间,或DNA和外部电磁场之间的相互作用被激活。

英文摘要:

By resorting to a model inspired to the standard Davydov and Holstein-Fröhlich models, in the present paper we study the motion of an electron along a chain of heavy particles modelling a sequence of nucleotides proper to a DNA fragment. Starting with a model Hamiltonian written in second quantization, we use the Time Dependent Variational Principle to work out the dynamical equations of the system. It is found that under the action of an external source of energy transferred to the electron, and according to the excitation site, the electron current can display either a broad frequency spectrum or a sharply peaked frequency spectrum. This sequence-dependent charge transfer phenomenology is suggestive of a potentially rich variety of electrodynamic interactions of DNA molecules under the action of electron excitation. This could imply the activation of interactions between DNA and transcription factors, or between DNA and external electromagnetic fields.

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