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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Bubble Relaxation Dynamics in Homopolymer DNA Sequences.

Malcolm Hillebrand, George Kalosakas, Alan R Bishop, Charalampos Skokos

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Malcolm HillebrandNonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Group, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-1313-2670
George KalosakasDepartment of Materials Science, University of Patras, GR-26504 Rio, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7763-718X
Alan R BishopLos Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
Charalampos SkokosNonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Group, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-2276-8251

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National Research Foundation 129630
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the inherent timescales of large bubbles in DNA is critical to a thorough comprehension of its physicochemical characteristics, as well as their potential role on helix opening and biological function. In this work, we employ the coarse-grained Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois model of DNA to study relaxation dynamics of large bubbles in homopolymer DNA, using simulations up to the microsecond time scale. By studying energy autocorrelation functions of relatively large bubbles inserted into thermalised DNA molecules, we extract characteristic relaxation times from the equilibration process for both adenine-thymine (AT) and guanine-cytosine (GC) homopolymers. Bubbles of different amplitudes and widths are investigated through extensive statistics and appropriate fittings of their relaxation. Characteristic relaxation times increase with bubble amplitude and width. We show that, within the model, relaxation times are two orders of magnitude longer in GC sequences than in AT sequences. Overall, our results confirm that large bubbles leave a lasting impact on the molecule's dynamics, for times between 0.5-500 ns depending on the homopolymer type and bubble shape, thus clearly affecting long-time evolutions of the molecule.

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DNAModels, ChemicalAdenineBase SequenceComputer SimulationCytosineGuanineModels, MolecularThymineAdenineCytosineDNAGuanineThyminebase pair stretchingbubblesDNAmolecular dynamicsrelaxation

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PMID36770707
PMCPMC9920605

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