Physical Questions Posed by DNA Condensation
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1 q-bio
Abstract
When multivalent salts are added to dilute DNA solution, the DNA chains condense into bundles of a well-defined size. We explore two physical problems motivated by this phenomenon: the origin of the attractive interactions between the highly-negatively charged DNA chains that cause them to concentrate into bundles, and the mechanism that provents the bundles from growing indefinitely large.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0003162,
title = {Physical Questions Posed by DNA Condensation},
author = {Bae-Yeun Ha and Andrea J. Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0003162},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
16 pages, 1 figure, to appear in "Physical Chemistry of Polyelectrolytes," ed. T. Radeva (Marcel Dekker, NY, 2000)