简介:DNAcondensationisanimportantprocessinmanyfieldsincludinglifesciences,polymerphysics,andappliedtechnology.Inthenucleus,DNAiscondensedintochromosomes.Inpolymerphysics,DNAistreatedasasemi-flexiblemoleculeandapolyelectrolyte.Manyagents,includingmulti-valentcations,surfactants,andneutralpoorsolvents,cancauseDNAcondensation,alsoreferredtoascoil–globuletransition.Moreover,DNAcondensationhasbeenusedforextractionandgenedeliveryinappliedtechnology.ManyphysicaltheorieshavebeenpresentedtoelucidatethemechanismunderlyingDNAcondensation,includingthecounterioncorrelationtheory,theelectrostaticzippertheory,andthehydrationforcetheory.Recentlyseveralsingle-moleculestudieshavefocusedonDNAcondensation,sheddingnewlightonoldconcepts.Inthisdocument,themulti-fieldconceptsandtheoriesrelatedtoDNAcondensationareintroducedandclarifiedaswellastheadvancesandconsiderationsofsingle-moleculeDNAcondensationexperimentsareintroduced.
简介:AdoublehelixmodelofchargetransportinDNAmoleculeisgivenandthetransmissionspectraoffourDNAsequencesareobtained.ThecalculatedresultsshowthatthetransmissioncharacteristicsofDNAarenotonlyrelatedtothelongitudinaltransportbutalsotothetransversetransportofmolecule.Theperiodicsequencewiththesamecompositionhasstrongerconductionability.Withtheincreasingofbasescomposition,theconductiveabilityreduces,buttheweightofθdirectionrisesinchargetransfer.
简介:Chaosgamerepresentation(CGR)isaniterativemappingtechniquethatprocessessequencesofunits,suchasnucleotidesinaDNAsequenceoraminoacidsinaprotein,inordertodeterminethecoordinatesoftheirpositionsinacontinuousspace.Thisdistributionofpositionshastwofeatures:oneisunique,andtheotherissourcesequencethatcanberecoveredfromthecoordinatessothatthedistancebetweenpositionsmayserveasameasureofsimilaritybetweenthecorrespondingsequences.ACGR-walkmodelisproposedbasedonCGRcoordinatesfortheDNAsequences.TheCGRcoordinatesareconvertedintoatimeseries,andalong-memoryARFIMA(p,d,q)model,whereARFIMAstandsforautoregressivefractionallyintegratedmovingaverage,isintroducedintotheDNAsequenceanalysis.ThismodelisappliedtosimulatingrealCGR-walksequencedataoftengenomicsequences.Remarkablylong-rangecorrelationsareuncoveredinthedata,andtheresultsfromthesemodelsarereasonablyfittedwiththosefromtheARFIMA(p,d,q)model.
简介:Theground-stateandthermodynamicpropertiesofquantummixed-spinchainsof1/2-1/2-1-1and3/2-3/2-1-1areinvestigatedbyaquantumMonteCarlosimulationwiththeloop-clusteralgorithm.For1/2-1/2-1-1chain,wefindithastwophasesseparatedbyanenergy-gapvanishingpointintheground-state.For3/2-3/2-1-1chain,thenumericalresultsshowtwoenergy-gapvanishingpointsisolatedbydifferentphasesinitsground-state.Ourcalculationsindicatethatallthesegroundstatephasescanbeunderstoodbymeansofvalence-bond-solidpicture,andthethermodynamicbehavioratfinitetemperaturesiscontinuousasafunctionofparameterα=J2/J1.
简介:TheDNA-dependentproteinkinasecatalyticsubunit(DNA-PKcs)playsamajorroleinDNAdamagesignalingandrepair,andisalsofrequentlyover-expressedintumormetastasis.WeusedisogeniccelllinesexpressingdifferentlevelsofDNA-PKcstoinvestigatetheroleofDNA-PKcsinmetastaticdevelopment.Interestingly,ourresultsshowedthatX-rayirradiationinducedthemetastasisofDNA-PKcspositive(M059K)butnotnegative(M059J)cells;however,genisteincouldsuppresstheradiation-inducedmetastaticpotentialofM059Kcells(Fig.1).Theconcretemechanismsunderlyingthisphenomenonwillbeinvestigatednextyear.
简介:Heavyionirradiationattractalargeinterestfortwoapplications:radiotherapyandspaceradiationprotectioninmannedspacemissions.ExposuretoheavyionsradiationresultsinmultipleeffectsthroughDNAdamageinduction.Single-cellgelelectrophoresisorcometassayisknownforitsabilitytodetectDNAdamageatthesinglecelllevelandhasbeenusedforyearstoassessDNAdamage.ItcandetectlowlevelsofDNAstrandbreaksinashorttime,justusingafewsamplecells.DNAdoublestrandbreaks(DSBs)aremeasuredattheneutralcometassaycondition;underthealkalinecometassayconditionbothDNAsinglestrandbreaks(SSBs)andpartDSBsaredetected.Thetwodimensionalcometassayisamodificationofthetwooriginalcometassay,cansimultaneouslydetectDNASSBsandDSBsinthesamehumanspermatozoa.
简介:In2014,theresearchersofTheoreticalPhysicsGroupatIMPhavecarriedouttheirresearchworkonnuclearphysics,heavyionphysicsandhadronphysics.Someimportantresultshavebeenobtained.Thethree-bodyforce(TBF)effectontheoff-shellbehavioroftheneutronandprotonmassoperatorsinasymmetricuclearmatterhasbeeninvestigatedwithintheframeworkoftheextendedBrueckner-Hartree-Fockapproach[1].Athighdensitieswellabovethenormalnuclearmatterdensity,theTBFisshowntoaffectsignificantlytheoff-shellehaviorofboththeprotonandneutronmassoperators.Thedensitydependenceofsymmetryenergyaroundtheuclearsaturationdensityhasbeenstudied[2].Anewapproachhasbeenproposedandappliedtodeterminetheymmetryenergycoefficientofheavynucleibasedontheavailableexperimentalnuclearmassesofheavynuclei.Theobtainedresultisadoptedtoanalyzethedensitydependenceofsymmetryenergyofnuclearmatteraroundtheaturationdensity.TheslopeparameteratthesaturationdensityisdeterminedtobeL=(50.515.5)MeV.
简介:AlterationsinDNArepair,cellcycle,andapoptoticpathwaysareoftenassociatedwithcancerriskandradiationsensitivity.IndividualswithreducedDNAdamageresponsefaceagreatersensitivitytomutagenchallenge.Interindividualvariabilityinmutagenorradiationsensitivityandincancersusceptibilitymayalsobetracedbacktopolymorphismsofgenesaffectinge.g.DNArepaircapacity[1].
简介:Amongthemanyspecialfactorsinthespaceenvironment,spaceradiationespeciallyhighenergyheavyionradiationiswidelyregardedasoneofthecrucialfactorsthathazardthehealthandsafetyofastronaut.Itiswellknownthatbiologicaleffectsofradiationaredependentonthelinear-energy-transfer(LET)oftheemergentbeam.HeavyionshavehighLETandcouldinducecomplexandclusteredDNAdamage,whichismoredifficulttoberepairedthanindividuallesionsandisevenirreparable.
简介:In2010,theBESCollaboration[1]foundaclearenhancementintheK0K0massdistributionintheJ=ψ!ηK0K0decay.SuchanenhancementisusuallyasignatureofanL=0resonancearoundthreshold,whichinthiscasewouldcorrespondstoanh1statewithquantumnumbersIG(JPC)=0??(1+??).Thish1statewaspredictedbytheChiralUnitarytheoryintheKKinteraction.Becauseoftheconversationlaw,thisstatecanonlydecaytoK0K0channel,andcanbestudiedefficientlyintheJ=ψ!ηK0K0decay.