Karapetian A T, Vardevanian P O, Tarzikian G A, Frank-Kamenetskii M D
Kirovakan Teachers Training Institute, Armenian SSR, USSR.
J Biomol Struct Dyn. 1990 Aug;8(1):123-30. doi: 10.1080/07391102.1990.10507793.
The effect of ligand interacting with native DNA by two types on the parameters of helix-coil transition in homopolymers is considered using the most probable distribution method (Yu.S. Lazurkin et al., Biopolymers 1970). It is shown that at a small relative concentration of ligand the melting enthalpy (delta H) of DNA may be obtained from the universal formula which contains only values directly known from the experiments. It is shown that the formula for the change of melting temperature and width of melting range depending on the total ligand concentration in solution is converted into the corresponding formulae which are defined for the case when only one type of interaction of ligand and DNA is considered.
