Abstract
Our recent work on the elastic responses of double- (ds) and single-stranded (ss) DNA at external force fields is reviewed. By constructing as elastic model of dsDNA in which the base-pair stacking interaction is included, we demonstrate that dsDNA entropic elasticity, cooperative extensibility, and supercoiling property can all be understood from a unified viewpoint. The base-pair stacking interaction is also found to determine the cooperativity of the stretch-induced hairpin-coil transition is ssDNA.
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