On the theory of order-disorder transition and copolymer structure of DNA

✍ Scribed by Shneior Lifson; Giuseppe Allegra

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1964
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 180 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0006-3525
• DOI: 10.1002/bip.1964.360020109

✦ Synopsis

The statistical mechanical theory of the helix-coil transition of DNA has been recently discussed by one of the authors, who considered an assembly of DNA molecules with a Markoff distribution of nucleotide sequences. The present communication improves upon the above mentioned theory by introducing approximate normalization factors for the unnormalized statistical weights of finding a given molecule of the assembly in a given microscopic state.