Sequence Dependence of Electronic Transport in DNA
arXiv:cond-mat/0508720 · doi:10.1002/pssb.200562703
Abstract
We study electronic transport in long DNA chains using the tight-binding approach for a ladder-like model of DNA. We find insulating behavior with localizaton lengths xi ~ 25 in units of average base-pair seperation. Furthermore, we observe small, but significant differences between lambda-DNA, centromeric DNA, promoter sequences as well as random-ATGC DNA.
4 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of "Transport in Interacting and Disordered Systems (TIDS11)", accepted for publication in phys. stat. sol. (b/c), including pss style files