DNA超分子水凝胶的粗粒化建模与模拟

DNA超分子水凝胶在生物、医学领域具有广阔的应用前景,基于计算模拟技术研究其分子结构与其宏观性能关系具有重要意义.归因于其复杂的结构和较大的相关时间空间尺度,目前针对DNA水凝胶的分子建模与模拟研究比较缺乏.本文建立了一种DNA水凝胶的粗粒化模型,采用分子动力学模拟的方法针对一种模块化纯DNA水凝胶进行了研究.模拟结果表明其凝胶态介观结构为多孔海绵状,其交联度与水凝胶的浓度成正相关,并得出了其转变温度的范围等.模拟结果与相关实验定性或半定量符合,表明该模型可能用于该模块化DNA水凝胶等类似系统的结构功能关系研究.     

Periodic thermodynamics of laser-driven molecular motor

Operation of a laser-driven nano-motor inevitably generates a non-trivial amount of heat, which can possibly lead to instability or even hinder the motor＇s continual running. This work quantitatively examines the overheating problem for a recently proposed laser-operated molecular locomotive. We present a single-molecule cooling theory, in which molecular details of the locomotive system are explicitly treated. This theory is able to quantitatively predict cooling efficiency for various candidates of molecular systems for the locomotive, and also suggests concrete strategies for improving the locomotive＇s cooling. It is found that water environment is able to cool the hot locomotive down to room temperature within 100 picoseconds after photon absorption. This cooling time is a few orders of magnitude shorter than the typical time for laser operation, effectively preventing any overheating for the nano-locomotive. However, when the cooling is less effective in non-aqueous environment, residual heat may build up. A continuous running of the motor will then lead to a periodic thermodynamics, which is a common character of many laser-operated nano-devices.     

A simplified tether model for molecular motor transporting cargo

Molecular motors are proteins or protein complexes which function as transporting engines in biological cells. This paper models the tether between motor and its cargo as a symmetric linear potential. Different from Elston and Peskin's work for which performance of the system was discussed only in some limiting cases, this study produces analytic solutions of the problem for general cases by simplifying the transport system into two physical states, which makes it possible to discuss the dynamics of the motor--cargo system in detail. It turns out that the tether strength between motor and cargo should be greater than a threshold or the motor will fail to transport the cargo, which was not discussed by former researchers yet. Value of the threshold depends on the diffusion coefficients of cargo and motor and also on the strength of the Brownian ratchets dragging the system. The threshold approaches a finite constant when the strength of the ratchet tends to infinity.     

分数阶双头分子马达的欠扩散输运现象

研究具有幂律记忆性的细胞液中双头分子马达的定向输运现象,选取幂函数作为广义Langevin方程的阻尼核函数,建立了分数阶过阻尼耦合Brown马达模型,讨论了阶数及耦合系数对双头分子马达定向输运速度的影响. 仿真结果表明,分数阶过阻尼双头分子马达也会产生定向输运现象,并且在某些阶数下会产生整数阶情形所不具有的反向定向流. 当噪声强度固定时,输运速度随着阶数以及耦合系数的变化均会出现广义随机共振现象. 特别地,研究发现双头分子马达在记忆闪烁棘轮势中具有某些单头分子马达所不具备的运动特性,定向流的大小和方向由噪声与双头间作用力相互耦合控制. 关键词： 分数阶双头分子马达 欠扩散 定向输运 广义随机共振     

基于三磷酸腺苷调节的分子马达单向能量跃迁模型

分子马达的梯跳运动和在过阻尼溶液中动力学原理尚未揭示清楚, 从分子马达输运特点和实验现象出发, 构建满足朗之万方程的单向能量跃迁模型, 并通过Monte Carlo方法分析了分子马达的随机动力学行为. 结果表明, 在合适的跃迁能量作用下, 分子马达可以利用噪声进行稳定的梯跳运动和有效的输运, 但负载力会减弱分子马达系统的输运能力; 轨道周期势虽影响分子马达速度的大小但不会改变其运动方向, 分子马达运动方向由跃迁能量决定; 另外, 虽然在不同的噪声强度时平均速度不为零, 但是分子马达系统的高效输运对噪声有一定选择性. 关键词： 分子马达 能量跃迁 朗之万方程 噪声强度     

小型动磁直线电机驱动压缩机研究

建立了小型动磁直线电机压缩机运动理论模型,数值分析结论与实验结果验证了样机的磁路设计,获得了13.0N/A的电机比推力,电机理论效率为78%。压缩机与冷指为Φ10的气动膨胀机进行匹配试验。获得压缩机的最佳工作频率48—50Hz,电机效率71%,电机效率比理论值小7%。     

脱氧核糖核酸柔性的分子动力学模拟:Amber bsc1和bsc0力场的对比研究

脱氧核糖核酸(DNA)的结构柔性对DNA生物功能的实现具有重要作用,全原子分子动力学模拟是一种研究DNA结构柔性的重要方法.DNA的分子动力学力场在Amber bsc0基础上有了进一步的发展,即Amber bsc1.本文采用基于最新bsc1力场和先前bsc0力场的分子动力学模拟对DNA的宏观柔性和微观柔性进行对比研究,发现力场的改进对DNA宏观柔性参量的预测有一定改善,即所预测的拉伸模量和扭转-伸缩耦合比与实验值更为接近,而弯曲持久长度和扭转持久长度两种力场结果皆与实验值一致.微观分析发现,除了滑移量稍变大,bsc1力场得到的微观结构参量如扭转角和倾斜角与实验值更为接近,且新力场下DNA宏观柔性的改善与DNA的微观结构参量及其涨落紧密相关.     

应用分子梳技术对DNA与组蛋白相互作用的研究

利用分子梳技术对λ DNA和组蛋白的相互作用进行了研究. 通过这种简单有效的方法，我们将λ DNA分子拉伸到26—28 μm，相当于其原长（约162 μm）的16—17倍. 当组蛋白与DNA结合后，DNA分子发生凝聚现象，复合体的拉伸长度明显变短，其峰值分布在10—14 μm之间. DNA 组蛋白复合体的拉伸长度与组蛋白的浓度、与碱基对和荧光染料的比例有显著的关系. 关键词： 分子梳 组蛋白 DNA 荧光显微     

Reversibly switchable DNA nanocompartment on surfaces: experiments, applications, and theory

This paper summarizes our studies of DNA nano-compartement in recent years. Biological macromolecules have been used to fabricate many nanostructures, bio-devices, and biomimetics because of their physical and chemical properties. But dynamic nanostructure and bio-machinery that depend on collective behavior of biomolecules have not been demonstrated. Here, we report the design of DNA nanocompartment on surfaces that exhibit reversible changes in molecular mechanical properties. Such molecular nanocompartment is served to encage molecules, switched by the collective effect of Watson-Crick base-pairing interactions. This effect is used to investigate the dynamic process of nanocompartment switching and molecular thermosensing, as well as perform molecular recognition. Further, we found that ‘fuel’ strands with single-base variation cannot afford an efficient closing of nanocompartment, which allows highly sensitive label-free DNA array detection. Theoretical analysis and computer simulations confirm our experimental observations, which are discussed in this review paper. Our results suggest that DNA nanocompartment can be used as building blocks for complex biomaterials, because its core functions are independent of substrates and mediators.      

An introduction to the physics of the bacterial flagellar motor: a nanoscale rotary electric motor

Biological molecular motors show us how directed motion can be generated by nanometre-scale devices that work at the energy scale of the thermal bath. Direct and indirect observations of functioning single molecule motors allow us to see fundamental processes of statistical physics unfolding in microscopic detail at room temperature, something that was unimaginable only a few decades ago. In this review, we introduce molecular motors and the physics relevant to their mechanisms before focusing on our recent experiments on the bacterial flagellar motor, the rotary device responsible for bacterial locomotion.     

The interaction of DNA with organotin(IV) salts and complexes

Ethanol solutions of Alk _n SnCl_4?n (Alk = Me, Et; n = 1–3) added to aqueous calf thymus DNA provoke DNA condensation (even in the presence of added cysteine) possibly through charge neutralization of DNA phosphodiesters by organotin(IV) cations. The structures of tin bonding environments in binary and ternary condensed systems organotin(IV)-DNA and ligand-organotin(IV)-DNA are determined through point-charge model treatment of the ¹¹⁹Sn Mössbauer parameter Δ, while the possible interchain interaction DNA-tin is inferred from the dynamics of ¹¹⁹Sn nuclei through vtMs.     

Scanning tunneling spectrosopy study of DNA conductivity

We used STM to study the conductivity of 32 nucleotide long DNA molecules chemically attached to a gold surface. Two oligonucleotides containing all four base types namely G, A, C, T, one single stranded and one double helical, all showed conductance data significantly higher than DNA containing only T and A that were either single stranded d(T32) or double helical d(T32).d(A32) in confirmation. Within each sequence group, the conductivity of the double helical form was always higher than that of the single strand. We discuss the impact of structure, particular base stacking and affinity to the phase transition.      

光谱法及分子模拟研究青蒿素与小牛胸腺DNA的相互作用

在pH 7.4的Tris-HCl缓冲溶液中,采用紫外吸收光谱、荧光光谱结合溴化乙锭（EB）荧光探针、共振散射光谱以及DNA熔点（T_m）实验和分子模拟等技术,研究了青蒿素（QHS）与小牛胸腺DNA（ctDNA）分子间结合位点与结合机制。光谱实验结果显示,QHS与DNA发生减色效应,QHS的加入使EB-DNA体系发生静态荧光猝灭,QHS与DNA作用后其467 nm处共振散射峰锐增,与QHS作用引起DNA的T_m值升高5℃,说明QHS竞争性地嵌插入DNA的碱基对中。通过计算获得QHS与DNA间结合常数K_a为1.43×10³ L/mol（298 K）、0.99×10³ L/mol（304 K）。分子模拟结果表明,QHS吡喃环部分结构嵌插到DNA小沟区域GA碱基对间,氢键和范德华力是两者间结合的主要非共价作用方式,该结论与光谱法和热力学所得结果一致。     

Adsorption dynamics of double-stranded DNA on a graphene oxide surface with both large unoxidized and oxidized regions

The adsorption dynamics of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) molecules on a graphene oxide (GO) surface are important for applications of DNA/GO functional structures in biosensors, biomedicine and materials science. In this work, molecular dynamics simulations were used to examine the adsorption of different length dsDNA molecules (from 4 bp to 24 bp) on the GO surface. The dsDNA molecules could be adsorbed on the GO surface through the terminal bases and stand on the GO surface. For short dsDNA (4 bp) molecules, the double-helix structure was partially or totally broken and the adsorption dynamics was affected by the structural fluctuation of short dsDNA and the distribution of the oxidized groups on the GO surface. For long dsDNA molecules (from 8 bp to 24 bp) adsorption is stable. By nonlinear fitting of the contact angle between the axis of the dsDNA molecule and the GO surface, we found that a dsDNA molecule adsorbed on a GO surface has the chance of orienting parallel to the GO surface if the length of the dsDNA molecule is longer than 54 bp. We attributed this behavior to the flexibility of dsDNA molecules. With increasing length, the flexibility of dsDNA molecules also increases, and this increasing flexibility gives an adsorbed dsDNA molecule more chance of reaching the GO surface with the free terminal. This work provides a whole picture of adsorption of dsDNA molecules on the GO surface and should be of benefit for the design of DNA/GO based biosensors.     

Rotation-translation coupling of a double-headed Brownian motor in a traveling-wave potential

Frontiers of Physics - We use an interferometic scheme to extract the phase distribution of the electron wave packet from above-threshold ionization in elliptically polarized laser fields. In this...     

基于迈斯纳效应超导电机的设计与电磁结构分析

本文对低温超导体在低温环境下表现出的迈斯纳效应进行了分析,并将这一现象产生的抗磁特性应用于电机驱动,设计出一种定子位于转子内部的超导电机。文章还阐述了电机的工作原理,结构设计方案。针对一种两相驱动的结构设计方案进行了电磁结构分析,得到具体的电机特性参数。     

制作简易直流电动机

为了演示“磁场对通电导线的作用力”实验,设计了简易直流电动机.该简易直流电动机是将绕成不同形状的导线放置在磁场中,通过线圈的旋转,即可演示磁场对通电导线的作用.     

无电刷法拉第模型电动机的动力学原理

法拉第电动机使用电刷改变流经转子线圈中电流的方向,若无电刷的情况下法拉第电动机似乎不能维持转动.事实上无电刷法拉第模型电动机在人为给转子线圈初始角动量的情况下却可以不停地转动.提出了转子线圈转轴跳动假设,给出无电刷法拉第模型电动机转动的动力学解释,并得到实验验证.     

超声波马达的应用

超声马达具有诸多优良特性,它已经在很多领域得到了广泛的应用。本文介绍了超声马达的应用现状和发展前景。     

New results on the melting thermodynamics of a circular DNA chain

We investigate the impact of supercoil period and nonzero supercoil formation energy on the thermal denaturation of a circular DNA. Our analysis is based on a recently proposed generalization of the Poland-Scheraga model that allows the DNA melting to be studied for plasmids with circular topology, where denaturation is accompanied by formation of supercoils. We find that the previously obtained first-order melting transition persists under the generalization discussed. The dependence of the size of the order-parameter jump at the transition point and the associated melting temperature are obtained analytically.