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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 103, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.103.032411
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- Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India
- Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), India
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In this study, it was found that the DNA conductance increases by one order of magnitude upon drug intercalation due to the local unwinding of DNA base pairs adjacent to the intercalated sites. The research suggests that intercalators can be used to enhance or tune DNA conductance, opening up new possibilities for their potential applications in nanoelectronics.
In this work we study the structure-transport property relationships of small ligand intercalated DNA molecules using a multiscale modeling approach where extensive ab initio calculations are performed on numerous MD-simulated configurations of dsDNA and dsDNA intercalated with two different intercalators, ethidium and daunomycin. DNA conductance is found to increase by one order of magnitude upon drug intercalation due to the local unwinding of the DNA base pairs adjacent to the intercalated sites, which leads to modifications of the density of states in the near-Fermi-energy region of the ligand-DNA complex. Our study suggests that the intercalators can be used to enhance or tune the DNA conductance, which opens new possibilities for their potential applications in nanoelectronics.
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