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Water-mediated correlations in DNA-enzyme interactions.

ABSTRACT: In this paper we consider dipole-mediated correlations between DNA and enzymes in the context of their water environment. Such correlations emerge from electric dipole-dipole interactions between aromatic ring structures in DNA and in enzymes. We show that there are matching collective modes between DNA and enzyme dipole fields, and that a dynamic time-averaged polarization vanishes in the water dipole field only if either DNA, enzyme, or both are absent from the sample. This persistent field may serve as the electromagnetic image that, in popular colloquialisms about DNA biochemistry, allows enzymes to "scan" or "read" the double helix. Topologically nontrivial configurations in the coherent ground state requiring clamplike enzyme behavior on the DNA may stem, ultimately, from spontaneously broken gauge symmetries.

SUBMITTER: Kurian P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5796540 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Water-mediated correlations in DNA-enzyme interactions.

Kurian P P Capolupo A A Craddock T J A TJA Vitiello G G

Physics letters. A 20171023 1

In this paper we consider dipole-mediated correlations between DNA and enzymes in the context of their water environment. Such correlations emerge from electric dipole-dipole interactions between aromatic ring structures in DNA and in enzymes. We show that there are matching collective modes between DNA and enzyme dipole fields, and that a dynamic time-averaged polarization vanishes in the water dipole field only if either DNA, enzyme, or both are absent from the sample. This persistent field ma ...[more]

PMID: 29403145

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