Statistical mechanics of pseudoknot polymers

Adam Lucas; Ken A. Dill

doi:10.1063/1.1587129

Statistical mechanics of pseudoknot polymers

Adam Lucas
, Ken A. Dill

Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology

Stony Brook University

Mills College

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Abstract

An analytic theory for pseudoknot chain conformations that treats the excluded volume explicitly was developed. The theory of self-avoiding walks was used to estimate the number of conformations for pseudoknot core units. It was shown that increasing the proportion of the hairpin stem in a pseudoknot core unit decreases the number of conformations accessible to the loop.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2414-2421
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume	119
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1587129
State	Published - Jul 22 2003

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