Direct observation of tube-like motion of a single polymer chain

Thomas T. Perkins;Douglas E. Smith;棣文 朱

Stanford University

发表时间:1994

期 刊:Science

语 言:English

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摘要

Tube-like motion of a single, fluorescently labeled molecule of DNA in an entangled solution of unlabeled lambda-phage DNA molecules was observed by fluorescence microscopy. One end of a 16- to 100-micrometer-long DNA was attached to a 1-micrometer bead and moved with optical tweezers. The molecule was stretched into various conformations having bends, kinks, and loops. As the polymer relaxed, it closely followed a path defined by its initial contour. The relaxation time of the disturbance caused by the bead was roughly 1 second, whereas tube-like motion in small loops persisted for longer than 2 minutes. Tube deformation, constraint release, and excess chain segment diffusion were also observed. These observations provide direct evidence for several key assumptions in the reptation model developed by de Gennes, Edwards, and Doi.

文献指纹

医学与生命科学

Polymers

Observation

DNA

Optical Tweezers

Bacteriophage lambda

Fluorescence Microscopy

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年份 CiteScore SJR SNIP
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1999 16.615 6.948
2000 13.319 7.003
2001 10.987 6.898
2002 10.814 7.242
2003 11.428 7.439
2004 11.589 7.237
2005 11.09 6.525
2006 10.542 6.097
2007 10.072 5.991
2008 11.277 6.041
2009 11.897 7.025
2010 13.481 7.745
2011 44.7 14.238 8.191
2012 46.3 13.318 7.992
2013 46.9 12.41 7.719
2014 46 12.052 8.045
2015 46.6 12.872 7.549
2016 49.5 13.745 7.652
2017 49.4 14.142 7.366
2018 47.1 13.251 7.529
2019 45.3 13.11 7.521
2020 45.5
2021

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