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Effective Breather Trapping Mechanism for DNA Transcription

Julian J. -L. Ting, Michel Peyrard

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9508077

Abstract

Collective coordinate and direct numerical integration methods are applied to the analysis of a one-dimensional DNA model. A modification of the coupling constant in an extended region is found to be less selective towards the breather it can trap than an isolated impurity. Therefore it provides a possible physical mechanism for the effect of an enzyme on DNA transcription.

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