Effect of Water Drag on Diffusion of Drifting Polarons in DNA

• Published in: The journal of physical chemistry. B Vol. 110; no. 46; pp. 23603 - 23606
• Main Authors: Conwell, E. M, Basko, D. M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 23.11.2006
• Subjects: Adenine - chemistry; Algorithms; Base Pairing; Diffusion; DNA - chemistry; Guanine - chemistry; Models, Theoretical; Nucleic Acid Conformation; Solutions - chemistry; Water - chemistry

It has been shown, theoretically and experimentally, that a hole or an excess electron on a DNA molecule in solution forms a delocalized wave function, a polaron. For an all-adenine (A) sequence or a mixed sequence of guanines (G's) and A's, calculations taking into account the polarizatio...