title: Revisiting the neighbor exclusion model and its applications.
abstract: We review the neighbor exclusion model and some of its applications to analyze the binding data of DNA-ligand complexes. We revisit the closed form of the model developed by McGhee and von Hippel in 1974, showing that this classic model can be used to help studying the behavior of DNA contour and persistence lengths when interacting with intercalating ligands. We present methods to quantitatively analyze the variation of these two quantities, allowing one to determine important parameters of the interaction such as the intrinsic binding constant and the exclusion number of the ligand.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, CEP 36570-000, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. marcios.rocha@ufv.br
authors.forename: Marcio S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Rocha
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D008024:Ligands; D008954:Models, Biological
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D004247:DNA