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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 122, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1842059
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM063732-02, GM 063732, R01 GM063732, R01 GM063732-03] Funding Source: Medline
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A statistical mechanical model is presented which explicitly accounts for the fluctuations, the electrostatic, and the excluded volume correlations for ions bound to a polyelectrolyte such as DNA. The method can be employed to treat a wide range of ionic conditions including multivalent ions. The microscopic framework of the theory permits the use of realistic finite length and grooved structural model for the polyelectrolyte and modeling of the finite size of the bound ions. Test against Monte Carlo simulations suggests that the theory can give accurate predictions for the ion distribution and the thermodynamic properties. For multivalent ions, the theory makes improved predictions as compared with the mean-field approach. Moreover, for long polyelectrolyte and dilute salt concentration, the theory predicts ion binding properties that agree with the counterion condensation theory. (C) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
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