2009/04/26 by Behrouz Eslami-Mossallam, B. Eslami-Mossallam, Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi +3
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Bacteriophages and microbial interactions #DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0904.4008
arxiv created 2009/04/26 · openalex publication_date 2009/04/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper we consider the anharmonic corrections to the anisotropic elastic rod model for DNA. Our model accounts for the difference between the bending energies of positive and negative rolls, which comes from the asymmetric structure of the DNA molecule. We will show that the model can explain the high flexibility of DNA at small length scales, as well as kink formation at high deformation limit.