期刊
BIOMICROFLUIDICS
卷 3, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3055275
关键词
biomechanics; DNA; electrophoresis; microfluidics; molecular biophysics; molecular configurations
资金
- NIBIB NIH HHS [T32 EB006348] Funding Source: Medline
Recently our group has reported experiments using an obstacle array to precondition the conformations of DNA molecules to facilitate their stretch in a microcontraction. Based upon previous successes simulating electrophoretic stretching in microcontractions without obstacles, we use our simulation model to study the deformation of DNA chains in a microcontraction preceded by an array of cylindrical obstacles. We compare our data to the experimental results and find good qualitative, and even quantitative, agreement concerning the behavior of the chains in the array; however, the simulations overpredict the mean stretch of the chains as they leave the contraction. We examine the amount of stretch gained between leaving the array and reaching the end of the contraction and speculate that the differences seen are caused by nonlinear electrokinetic effects that become important in the contraction due to a combination of field gradients and high field strengths.
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