Nonuniform Donnan Equilibrium within Bacteriophages Packed with Dna

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The curvature stress of DNA packed inside a phage is balanced against its electrostatic self-interaction. The DNA density is supposed nonuniform and as a result the Donnan effect is also inhomogeneous. The coarse-grained DNA density is a nonlinear function of the DNA radius of curvature at a given position inside the bacteriophage. It turns out that a region (or regions) exists totally free from DNA. The size of such holes is computed.
11 pages, 2 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Chem. B (special Polyelectrolytes issue)

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Soft Condensed Matter, Quantitative Biology

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/21177

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https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0304140
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