Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Figure Credits
- 1 Basic Properties of Quantum Chemistry
- 2 Charge Transport in the DNA Molecule
- 3 Electronic Transmission Spectra of the DNA Molecule
- 4 Thermodynamic Properties of the DNA Molecule
- 5 Properties of the DNA/RNA Nucleobases
- 6 Molecular Electronics
- 7 Amino Acid Anhydrous Crystals
- 8 Protein–Protein Systems
- 9 Ascorbic Acid and Ibuprofen Drugs
- 10 Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs
- 11 Collagen-Based Biomaterials
- 12 Antimigraine Drugs
- 13 Antiparkinson Drugs
- 14 Central Nervous System Disorders
- 15 The Biology of Cancer
- 16 Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Thermodynamic Properties of the DNA Molecule
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Figure Credits
- 1 Basic Properties of Quantum Chemistry
- 2 Charge Transport in the DNA Molecule
- 3 Electronic Transmission Spectra of the DNA Molecule
- 4 Thermodynamic Properties of the DNA Molecule
- 5 Properties of the DNA/RNA Nucleobases
- 6 Molecular Electronics
- 7 Amino Acid Anhydrous Crystals
- 8 Protein–Protein Systems
- 9 Ascorbic Acid and Ibuprofen Drugs
- 10 Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs
- 11 Collagen-Based Biomaterials
- 12 Antimigraine Drugs
- 13 Antiparkinson Drugs
- 14 Central Nervous System Disorders
- 15 The Biology of Cancer
- 16 Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
We performed a theoretical study of the specific heat, as a function of the temperature, for double-strand DNA quasiperiodic sequences. The energy spectra are calculated using the 2-D Schrödinger equation, in a tight-binding approximation, with the on-site energy exhibiting long-range disorder and nonrandom hopping amplitudes. Classical, quantum, and nonextensive statistics are taken into account to perform the specific heat spectra. Comparisons are made with finite segment of natural DNA, as part of the human chromosome Ch22. Furthermore, we consider the effects of the solvent interaction on the nonlinear dynamical structure of a DNA segment, by using a time-independent perturbation approach, to investigate the denaturation temperature profiles of some DNA’s thermodynamic functions, such as the stretching of the hydrogen bonds, the specific heat, and the entropy. Besides a sharp thermal profile behavior of these functions, we also observe that the DNA’s melting temperature decreases as the solvent potential increases.
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- Quantum Chemistry Simulation of Biological Molecules , pp. 89 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021