Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, GR-15784 Athens, Greece
Abstract
We employ the Tight Binding Fishbone-Wire Model to study the electronic structure and coherent transfer of a hole (the absence of an electron created by oxidation) in all possible ideal B-DNA dimers as well as in homopolymers (one base pair repeated along the whole sequence with purine on purine). The sites considered are the base pairs and the deoxyriboses, with no backbone disorder. For the time-independent problem, we calculate the eigenspectra and the density of states. For the time-dependent problem after oxidation (i.e., the creation of a hole either at a base pair or at a deoxyribose), we calculate the mean-over-time probabilities to find the hole at each site and establish the frequency content of coherent carrier transfer by computing the Weighted Mean Frequency at each site and the Total Weighted Mean Frequency of a dimer or polymer. We also evaluate the main oscillation frequencies of the dipole moment along the macromolecule axis and the relevant amplitudes. Finally, we focus on the mean transfer rates from an initial site to all others. We study the dependence of these quantities on the number of monomers that are used to construct the polymer. Since the value of the interaction integral between base pairs and deoxyriboses is not well-established, we treat it as a variable and examine its influence on the calculated quantities.
Funder
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Subject
General Materials Science
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