Volume 18, Issue Supplement 2, December 2011, Pages 411 - 427
Phenomenological Modeling of DNA Overstretching
Authors
Ray W. Ogden
Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW, Scotland, UK
School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK,r.ogden@abdn.ac.uk
Giuseppe Saccomandi
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università degli Studi di Perugia, 06125 Perugia, Italy,saccomandi@mec.dii.unipg.it
Ivonne Sgura
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università del Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy,ivonne.sgura@unisalento.it
Received 23 September 2010, Accepted 14 February 2011, Available Online 7 January 2021.
- DOI
- 10.1142/S140292511100160XHow to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Force-extension curve; DNA overstretching; nonlinear elasticity; limiting chain extensibility; worm-like-chain formula; nonlinear least squares
- Abstract
A phenomenological model based on the three-dimensional theory of nonlinear elasticity is developed to describe the phenomenon of overstretching in the force-extension curve for double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). By using the concept of a material with multiple reference configurations a single formula is obtained to fit the force-extension curve.
- Copyright
- © 2011 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press and Taylor & Francis
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - JOUR AU - Ray W. Ogden AU - Giuseppe Saccomandi AU - Ivonne Sgura PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/07 TI - Phenomenological Modeling of DNA Overstretching JO - Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics SP - 411 EP - 427 VL - 18 IS - Supplement 2 SN - 1776-0852 UR - https://doi.org/10.1142/S140292511100160X DO - 10.1142/S140292511100160X ID - Ogden2021 ER -