Chemical Communications 2013-02-14

DNA duplex stabilization in crowded polyanion solutions.

Imran Khimji, Jeehae Shin, Juewen Liu

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 49(13) , 1306-8, (2013)

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Abstract

The melting temperature of duplex DNA is much higher in polyanions than in non-ionic polymers with similar ionic strength, suggesting an additional electrostatic contribution on top of the excluded volume effect.