How nanochannel confinement affects the DNA melting transition within the Poland-Scheraga model
How nanochannel confinement affects the DNA melting transition within the Poland-Scheraga model
When double-stranded DNA molecules are heated, or exposed to denaturing agents, the two strands are separated. The statistical physics of this process has a long history and is commonly described in terms of the Poland-Scheraga (PS) model. Crucial to this model is the configurational entropy for a melted region (compared …