Enhanced electrohydrodynamic collapse of DNA due to dilute polymers

We experimentally demonstrate that addition of small, charge-neutral polymers to a buffer solution can promote compression of dilute solutions of single electrophoresing DNA. This phenomenon contrasts with the observed extension of DNA during capillary electrophoresis in dilute solutions of high mol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Du, Ning, Doyle, Patrick S., Renner, C. Benjamin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101172
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1687-4522