Liquid crystal ordering of DNA and RNA oligomers with partially overlapping sequences

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 20, Issue 49, 2008, Pages

  Zanchetta, G ^a   Nakata, M ^b   Buscaglia, M ^a   Clark, N A ^b   Bellini, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; FORMING; GENES; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OLIGOMERS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; POLYMERS; RNA; THEOREM PROVING;

BASE PAIRS; BASE STACKING; CHIRAL NEMATIC; COLUMNAR LIQUID CRYSTALS; COMPLEMENTARY SEQUENCES; LONG-RANGE ORDERINGS; NUCLEOBASES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES; SELF-ASSEMBLY; TYPE STRUCTURES;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 58149348585     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/20/49/494214     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Luzzati V and Nicolaieff V A 1959 J. Mol. Biol. 1 127
2. Robinson C 1961 Tetrahedron 13 219
3. Strzelecka T E, Davidson M W and Rill R L 1988 Nature 331 457
4. Livolant F, Levelut A M, Doucet J and Benoit J P 1989 Nature 339 724
5. Livolant F and Leforestier F A 1996 Prog. Polym. Sci. 21 1115
6. Podgornik R, Strey H H and Parsegian V A 1998 Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. 3 534
7. Kornyshev A A, Lee D J, Leikin S and Wynveen A 2007 Rev. Mod. Phys. 79 943
8. Hud N V and Downing K H 2001 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 98 14925
9. Safinya C R 2001 Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 11 440
10. Frenkiel-Krispin D, Levin-Zaidman S, Shimoni E, Wolf S G, Wachtel E G, Arad T, Finkel S E, Kolter R and Minsky A 2001 EMBO J. 20 1184
11. Levin-Zaidman S, Englander J, Shimoni E, Sharma A K, Minton K W and Minsky A 2003 Science 299 254
12. Onsager L 1949 Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 51 627
13. Nakata M, Zanchetta G, Chapman B D, Jones C D, Cross J O, Pindak R, Bellini T and Clark N A 2007 Science 318 1276
14. Zanchetta G, Bellini T, Nakata M and Clark N A 2008 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130 12864
15. Calladine C R, Drew H R, Luisi B F and Travers A A 2004 Understanding DNA: The Molecule and How it Works 3rd edn (San Diego, CA: Elsevier-Academic)
16. Lydon J 2004 J. Colloid Interface Sci. 8 480
17. Cates M E and Candau S J 1990 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 2 6869
18. Horowitz V R, Janowitz L A, Modic A L, Heiney P A and Collings P J 2005 Phys. Rev. E 72 041710
19. Lü X and Kindt J T 2004 J. Chem. Phys. 120 10328
20. Sciortino F, Bianchi E, Douglas J F and Tartaglia P 2007 J. Chem. Phys. 126 194903
21. Wang S and Kool E T 1995 Biochemistry 34 4125
22. Li L, Pabit S A, Lamb J S, Park H Y and Pollack L 2008 Appl. Phys. Lett. 92 223901
23. Qiu H, Dewan J C and Seeman N C 1997 J. Mol. Biol. 267 881
24. Sarkar T, Conwell C C, Harvey L C, Santai C T and Hud N V 2005 Nucleic Acids Res. 33 143
25. Breslauer K J, Frank R, Blöcker H and Marky L A 1986 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 83 3746
26. Santalucia J 1998 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 95 1460
27. Zanchetta G, Nakata M, Buscaglia M, Bellini T and Clark N A 2008 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 105 1111
28. Taylor M P and Herzfeld J 1990 Langmuir 6 911
29. Bates M A and Frenkel D 1998 J. Chem. Phys. 109 6193
30. Bohle A M, Holyst R and Vilgis T 1996 Phys. Rev. Lett. 76 1396
31. Merchant K and Rill R L 1997 Biophys. J. 73 3154
32. SantaLucia J and Hicks D 2004 Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 33 415
33. Bommarito S, Peyret N and SantaLucia J 2000 Nucleic Acids Res. 28 1929
34. Peyret N 2000 PhD Thesis Wayne State University
35. Protozanova E, Yakovchuk P and Frank-Kamenetskii M D 2004 J. Mol. Biol. 342 775
36. Vasiliskov V A, Prokopenko D V and Mirzabekov A D 2001 Nucleic Acids Res. 29 2303
37. Pyshnyi D V and Ivanova E M 2002 Russ. Chem. Bull. Int Edn 51 1145
38. Livolant F 1991 Physica A 176 117
39. Leforestier A and Livolant F 1993 Biophys. J. 65 56
40. Minsky A 2003 Mol. Microbiol. 50 367