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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Molecular Sciences Année : 2021

Transition between random and periodic electron currents on a DNA chain

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By resorting to a model inspired to the standard Davydov and Holstein-Fröhlich models, in the present paper we study the motion of an electron along a chain of heavy particles modelling a sequence of nucleotides proper to a DNA fragment. Starting with a model Hamiltonian written in second quantization, we use the Time Dependent Variational Principle to work out the dynamical equations of the system. It is found that under the action of an external source of energy transferred to the electron, and according to the excitation site, the electron current can display either a broad frequency spectrum or a sharply peaked frequency spectrum. This sequence-dependent charge transfer phenomenology is suggestive of a potentially rich variety of electrodynamic interactions of DNA molecules under the action of electron excitation. This could imply the activation of interactions between DNA and transcription factors, or between DNA and
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hal-03320214 , version 1 (16-08-2021)

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Elham Faraji, Roberto Franzosi, Stefano Mancini, Marco Pettini. Transition between random and periodic electron currents on a DNA chain. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021, 22 (14), pp.7361. ⟨10.3390/ijms22147361⟩. ⟨hal-03320214⟩
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