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DNA强力拉伸和超拉伸理论

Theory of High-Force DNA Stretching and Overstretching

Cornelis Storm, Philip Nelson

摘要:

单链和双链DNA的单分子实验引发了人们对聚合物力延伸的新兴趣。可扩展的自由连接链(FJC)模型经常被用来解释观察到的单链DNA的行为。我们证明,这个模型不能令人满意地描述最近的高力拉伸数据。相反,我们提出了一个模型(离散持久链,或“DPC”),该模型借用了FJC和Wormlike Chain的特征,并表明它与数据更相似。我们发现,以前归因于拉伸弹性的大部分高力行为实际上是校正熵弹性的一个特征;单链DNA的真实拉伸顺应性比以前的作者发现的小几倍。接下来,我们阐述我们的模型,允许共存的两种构象状态的DNA,每个都有自己的拉伸和弯曲弹性常数。我们的模型在计算上是简单的,并提供了一个很好的适合通过整个过度拉伸过渡的切口,双链DNA。拟合给出了拉伸状态的弹性常数的第一个值。特别地,我们发现DNA在这种状态下的有效弯曲刚度约为10 nm*kbt,这一值与B型或单链DNA完全不同

英文摘要:

Single molecule experiments on single- and double stranded DNA have sparked a renewed interest in the force-extension of polymers. The extensible Freely Jointed Chain (FJC) model is frequently invoked to explain the observed behavior of single-stranded DNA. We demonstrate that this model does not satisfactorily describe recent high-force stretching data. We instead propose a model (the Discrete Persistent Chain, or ``DPC'') that borrows features from both the FJC and the Wormlike Chain, and show that it resembles the data more closely. We find that most of the high-force behavior previously attributed to stretch elasticity is really a feature of the corrected entropic elasticity; the true stretch compliance of single-stranded DNA is several times smaller than that found by previous authors. Next we elaborate our model to allow coexistence of two conformational states of DNA, each with its own stretch and bend elastic constants. Our model is computationally simple, and gives an excellent fit through the entire overstretching transition of nicked, double-stranded DNA. The fit gives the first values for the elastic constants of the stretched state. In particular we find the effective bend stiffness for DNA in this state to be about 10 nm*kbt, a value quite different from either B-form or single-stranded DNA

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