中国物理B ›› 2009, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (8): 3577-3584.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/18/8/074
林振权1, 王海锋2, 高艳2, 胥超2
Wang Hai-Feng(王海锋)a)†, Lin Zhen-Quan(林振权)b), Gao Yan(高艳)a), and Xu Chao(胥超)a)
摘要: We propose a catalytically activated duplication model to mimic the coagulation and duplication of the DNA polymer system under the catalysis of the primer RNA. In the model, two aggregates of the same species can coagulate themselves and a DNA aggregate of any size can yield a new monomer or double itself with the help of RNA aggregates. By employing the mean-field rate equation approach we analytically investigate the evolution behaviour of the system. For the system with catalysis-driven monomer duplications, the aggregate size distribution of DNA polymers ak(t) always follows a power law in size in the long-time limit, and it decreases with time or approaches a time-independent steady-state form in the case of the duplication rate independent of the size of the mother aggregates, while it increases with time increasing in the case of the duplication rate proportional to the size of the mother aggregates. For the system with complete catalysis-driven duplications, the aggregate size distribution ak(t) approaches a generalized or modified scaling form.