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A model of the conformational transitions of the nucleic acid molecule during the water adsorption-desorption cycle is proposed. The nucleic acid-water system is considered as an open system. The model describes the transitions between three main conformations of wet nucleic acid samples: A-, B- and unordered forms. The analysis of kinetic equations shows the non-trivial bifurcation behaviour of the system which leads to the multistability. This fact allows one to explain the hysteresis phenomena observed experimentally in the nucleic acid-water system. The problem of self-organization in the nucleic acid-water system is of great importance for revealing physical mechanisms of the functioning of nucleic acids and for many specific practical fields.
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Tolstorukov, M.Y., Virnik, K.M. (1999). Mathematical Model of the Nucleic Acids Conformational Transitions with Hysteresis over Hydration—Dehydration Cycle. In: Deuflhard, P., Hermans, J., Leimkuhler, B., Mark, A.E., Reich, S., Skeel, R.D. (eds) Computational Molecular Dynamics: Challenges, Methods, Ideas. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58360-5_6
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