Coarse Graining DNA : Symmetry, Nonlocal Elasticity, and Persistence Length

While the behavior of double-stranded DNA at mesoscopic scales is fairly well understood, less is known about its relation to the rich mechanical properties in the base-pair scale, which is crucial, for instance, to understand DNA-protein interactions and the nucleosome diffusion mechanism. Here, by employing the rigid base-pair model, we connect its microscopic parameters to the persistence length. Combined with all-atom molecular dynamic simulations, our scheme identifies relevant couplings between different degrees of freedom at each coarse-graining step. This allows us to clarify how the scale dependence of the elastic moduli is determined in a systematic way encompassing the role of previously unnoticed off-site couplings between deformations with different parity.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:130

Enthalten in:

Physical review letters - 130(2023), 5 vom: 03. Feb., Seite 058402

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gutiérrez Fosado, Yair Augusto [VerfasserIn]
Landuzzi, Fabio [VerfasserIn]
Sakaue, Takahiro [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9007-49-2
DNA
Journal Article

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Date Completed 22.02.2023

Date Revised 22.02.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.058402

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM353069124