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Nonlinearity-induced conformational instability and dynamics of biopolymers

  • S. F. Mingaleev*
  • , Y. B. Gaididei
  • , P. L. Christiansen
  • , Y. S. Kivshar
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    We propose a simple phenomenological model for describing the conformational dynamics of biopolymers via the nonlinearity-induced buckling and collapse instability. We describe the buckling instability analytically, and then demonstrate its role in the folding dynamics of macromolecules through the three-dimensional numerical simulations of long semiflexible chains.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)403-409
    Number of pages7
    JournalEurophysics Letters
    Volume59
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2002

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