Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2012-04-04
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
13 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
Short blunt-ended DNA duplexes comprising 6 to 20 base pairs self-assemble into polydisperse semi-flexible chains due to hydrophobic stacking interactions between terminal base pairs. Above a critical concentration, which depends on temperature and duplex length, such chains order into liquid crystal phases. Here, we investigate the self-assembly of such double-helical duplexes with a combined numerical and theoretical approach. We simulate the bulk system employing the coarse-grained DNA model recently proposed by Ouldridge et al. [ J. Chem. Phys. 134, 08501 (2011) ]. Then we evaluate the input quantities for the theoretical framework directly from the DNA model. The resulting parameter-free theoretical predictions provide an accurate description of the simulation results in the isotropic phase. In addition, the theoretical isotropic-nematic phase boundaries are in line with experimental findings, providing a route to estimate the stacking free energy.
Bellini Tommaso
Michele Cristiano de
Rovigatti Lorenzo
Sciortino Francesco
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