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Diffusion of Single Star-Branched Dendrimer-Like DNA

Diffusion of Single Star-Branched Dendrimer-Like DNA

Katherine O Freedman, Janet Lee, Yougen Li, Dan Luo, Victoria B Skobeleva, Pu Chun Ke

J Phys Chem B. 2005 May 19;109(19):9839-42.

PMID: 16852184

Abstract:

We report a single-molecule fluorescence study on the diffusion of star-branched polymer dendrimer-like DNA (DL-DNA). The DL-DNA molecules were synthesized from ligating Y-shaped DNA to the fourth generation. It was found through single particle tracking that the diffusion coefficient of DL-DNA changes in a nonmonotonic fashion with its increased concentration possibly due to arm arrest and arm retraction. The diffusion of DL-DNA in linear lambda DNA solution displayed a monotonic concentration dependence 1 order of magnitude greater than the diffusion of DL-DNA in DL-DNA solution. This difference is attributed to the different conformation of DL-DNA and lambda DNA and the entanglement of lambda DNA with a large radius of gyration. Our diffusion study facilitates DL-DNA transportation for drug delivery.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
CS3104387	Lambda DNA solution			Price

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