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  • Diffusion of Single Star-Br...
    Freedman, Katherine O; Lee, Janet; Li, Yougen; Luo, Dan; Skobeleva, Victoria B; Ke, Pu Chun

    The journal of physical chemistry. B, 05/2005, Letnik: 109, Številka: 19
    Journal Article

    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.