Healing Length and Bubble Formation in DNA

Details Healing Length and Bubble Formation in DNA Healing Length and Bubble Formation in DNA

2006-01-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601304v1

Phys. Rev. E 73, 051902 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.73.051902

We have recently suggested that the probability for the formation of thermally activated DNA bubbles is, to a very good approximation, proportional to the number of soft AT pairs over a length L(n) that depend on the size $n$ of the bubble and on the temperature of the DNA. Here we clarify the physical interpretation of this length by relating it to the (healing) length that is required for the effect of a base-pair defect to become neligible. This provides a simple criteria to calculate L(n) for bubbles of arbitrary size and for any temperature of the DNA. We verify our findings by exact calculations of the equilibrium statistical properties of the Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois model. Our method permits calculations of equilibrium thermal openings with several order of magnitude less numerical expense as compared with direct evaluations.

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