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Helix–coil transition in closed circular DNA

✍ Scribed by Vladimir F. Morozov; Eugene Sh. Mamasakhlisov; Arsen V. Grigoryan; Artem V. Badasyan; Shura Hayryan; Chin-Kun Hu

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
226 KB
Volume
348
Category
Article
ISSN
0378-4371

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✦ Synopsis

A simplified model for the closed circular DNA (ccDNA) is proposed to describe some specific features of the helix-coil transition in such molecules. The Hamiltonian of ccDNA is related to the one introduced earlier for the open chain DNA (ocDNA). The basic assumption is that the reduced energy of the hydrogen bond is not constant through the transition process but depends effectively on the fraction of already broken bonds. A transformation formula is obtained which relates the temperature of ccDNA at a given degree of helicity during the transition to the temperature of the corresponding open chain at the same degree of helicity. The formula provides a simple method to calculate the melting curve for the ccDNA from the experimental melting curve of the ocDNA with the same nucleotide sequence.

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