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We find that the hydrogen-bond--stretch bands of the double helix appear to be nonlinear enough to support solitary-wave energy concentration. Coupling this fact to predictions of our self-consistent theory of helix melting gives rise to speculations of a mechanism for base pair melting in RNA transcription which is consistent with the known energy needs of that process.
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E. W. Prohofsky (1988) studied this question.
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