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LANGMUIR
Volume 20, Issue 13, Pages 5165-5170Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la036049a
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Atomic force microscopy has been used for direct visualization of the wrapping of DNA around 30-nm-sized functionalized gold nanoparticles for the first time. The morphology of the complexes seems to be dictated by the relative concentration of the nanoparticles and DNA. A higher concentration of the former leads to the formation of a network of nanoparticles assembled on DNA. This assembly pattern seems to be significantly different from the manner in which cationically modified gold nanoparticles of smaller size (<5 nm) arrange linearly on DNA, as shown in the literature. A DNA-gold nanoparticle can be developed as a model system for in vitro studies on the mechanism of DNA condensation and also for developing novel methods of nanoparticle self-assembly on the DNA template.
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