| Literature DB >> 21922490 |
Oscar Castillo-Fernandez1, Georgette B Salieb-Beugelaar, Jan W van Nieuwkasteele, Johan G Bomer, Martin Arundell, Josep Samitier, Albert van den Berg, Jan C T Eijkel.
Abstract
The electrokinetic transport behavior of λ-DNA (48 kbp) in 20 nm-high fused-silica nanoslits in the presence of short-chain PVP is investigated. Mobility and video data show a number of phenomena that are typical of DNA transport through gels or polymer solutions, thus indicative of rigid migration obstacles in the DNA pathway. Calculations show that a several nanometer thin layer of wall-adsorbed PVP ('nano-gel') can provide such a rigid obstacle matrix to the DNA. Such ultrathin wall-adsorbed polymer layers represent a new type of matrix for electrokinetic DNA separation.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21922490 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201100278
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Electrophoresis ISSN: 0173-0835 Impact factor: 3.535