As a key molecule of life, Deoxyribo-Nucleic Acid (DNA) is the focus of numbers of
investigations with the help of biological, chemical and physical techniques. From a physical …

A paradigm in transcriptional regulation is that graded increases in transcription factor (TF)
concentration are translated into on/off transcriptional responses by cooperative TF binding …

Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. The evaluation of nucleotide
photoionization threshold energies provides useful information for understanding …

We analyze the role of temperature in the rate-independent cohesion and decohesion
behavior of an elastic film, mimicked by a one-dimensional mass-spring chain, grounded to …

A highly sensitive electrochemical biosensor with a signal amplification platform of
electrodeposited gold nanoparticle (AuNP) has been developed and characterized. The …

Non-local and non-convex energies represent fundamental interacting effects regulating the
complex behavior of many systems in biophysics and materials science. We study one …

We study the rate-independent decohesion process for a chain linked to a substrate through
a series of breakable elements with a softening mechanism. Such an assumption describes …

The imaginary time path integral formalism is applied to a nonlinear Hamiltonian for a short
fragment of heterogeneous DNA with a stabilizing solvent interaction term. Torsional effects …

Polymer loop structure commonly appears in biological phenomena, such as DNA looping
and DNA denaturation. When a chain forms a loop, its elastic behavior differs from that of an …

The combination of bistability and cooperativity plays a crucial role in several biological and
artificial micro-and nanosystems. In particular, the exhaustive understanding of the …