Biology – Quantitative Biology – Biomolecules
Scientific paper
2004-03-01
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Biomolecules
14 pages, final version, accepted in Fluctuation and Noise Letters, scheduled to apper in vol. 4, issue 3 (2004)
Scientific paper
10.1117/12.548346
We study the effects of the sequence on the propagation of nonlinear excitations in simple models of DNA, and how those effects are modified by noise. Starting from previous results on soliton dynamics on lattices defined by aperiodic potentials, [F. Dom\'\i nguez-Adame {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 52}, 2183 (1995)], we analyze the behavior of lattices built from real DNA sequences obtained from human genome data. We confirm the existence of threshold forces, already found in Fibonacci sequences, and of stop positions highly dependent on the specific sequence. Another relevant conclusion is that the effective potential, a collective coordinate formalism introduced by Salerno and Kivshar [Phys. Lett. A {\bf 193}, 263 (1994)] is a useful tool to identify key regions that control the behaviour of a larger sequence. We then study how the fluctuations can assist the propagation process by helping the excitations to escape the stop positions. Our conclusions point out to improvements of the model which look promising to describe mechanical denaturation of DNA. Finally, we also consider how randomly distributed energy focus on the chain as a function of the sequence.
Cuenda Sara
Sanchez Angel
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