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Decondensation behavior of DNA chains induced by multivalent cations at high salt concentrations: Molecular dynamics simulations and experiments*

Jiang Yang-Wei^a), Ran Shi-Yong^b), He Lin-Li^b), Wang Xiang-Hong^b),^c), Zhang Lin-Xi^a)

Pair correlation functions of (a) DNA–DNA pairs g ( r )_DNA, (b) DNA–chain pairs g ( r )_chain, and (c) DNA–cation pairs g ( r )_cation for various cations at two cation concentrations of 63 mM and 376 mM, respectively.