Do quantum effects hold together DNA

condensates? Part I

Alfredo IorioUstav Castikove a Jaderne Fyziky

Univerzita Karlova v Praze

Ustav Theoreticke FyzikyUnivezita Karlova v Praze

3 brezen 2009

Summary

• Foreword

• DNA (and others) Compaction

• The Poisson-Boltzmann equation

• The electrostatic and the fluctuations approaches…

• …and their problems

• How about quantum effects?Refs: W.Gelbart, R.Bruinsma, P.Pincus,

V.Parsegian, Phys. Today 53 (2000) 38

(A.I., S.Sen, S.Sen, arXiv:0806.3130 [q-bio])

* Foreword: the hero of our story

* DNA (and others) Compaction

                              

* The Poisson-Boltzmann equation

* The electrostatic and fluctuations approaches…

* …and their problems

* How about quantum effects?