Spontaneous formation of liquid crystalline phases and phase transitions in highly concentrated plasmid DNA

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 461-468

  Hanczyc, Piotr ^a,b   Matczyszyn, Katarzyna ^a   Pawlik, Krzysztof ^c,d   Olesiak, Joanna ^a   Leh, Herve ^e   Buckle, Malcolm ^e  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

^d WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan   (France)

Author keywords

Cholesteric phase; Circular dichroism; DNA isolation techniques; Fingerprint like texture; Hyperchromic effect; Liquid crystal; Phase transition; Plasmid DNA; Supercoiling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957541543     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2011.552740     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Luzzati, V.; Nicolaieff, A. J. Mol. Biol. 1959, 1, 127.
2. Livolant, F.; Maestre, M.F. Biochemistry 1988, 27, 3056-3068.
3. Livolant, F. J. Phys.-Paris 1986, 47, 1605-1616.
4. Nagai, K.; Sakajiri, K.; Maeda, K.; Okoshi, K.; Sato, T.; Yashima, E. Macromolecules 2006, 39, 5371-5380.
5. Strzelecka, T.; Rill, R.L. Macromolecules 1991, 24, 5124-5133.
6. Torbet, J.; DiCapua, E. EMBO J. 1989, 8, 4351-4356.
7. Zakharova, S.S.; Jesse, W.; Backendorf, C.; Maarel, J.R.C. Biophys. J. 2002, 83, 1119-1129.
8. Zakharova, S.S.; Jesse, W.; Backendorf, C.; Egelhaat, S.U.; Lapp, A.; Maarel, J.R.C. Biophys. J. 2002, 83, 1106-1118.
9. Reich, Z.; Wachtel, E.J.; Minsky, A. Science 1994, 264, 1460-1463.
10. White, J.H. Am. J. Math. 1969, 91, 693-728.
11. Bates, A.; Maxwell, A. DNA Topology; Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, 1993.
12. van der Maarel, J.R.C.; Zakharova, S.S.; Jesse, W.; Backendorf, C.; Egelhaaf, S.U.; Lapp, A. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 2003, 15, 183-189.
13. Goldstein, E.; Drlica, K. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 1984, 81, 4046-4050.
14. Adamcik, J.; Viglasky, V.; Valle, F.; Antalik, M.; Podhradsky, D.; Dietler, G. Electrophoresis 2002, 23, 3300-3309.
15. Mizushima, T.; Natori, S.; Sekimizu, K. Mol. Genet. Genomics 1993, 238, 1-5.
16. Mizushima, T.; Kataoka, K.; Ogata, Y.; Inoue, R.; Sekimizu, K. Mol. Microbiol. 1997, 23, 381-386.
17. Drlica, K.; Perl-Rosenthal, N. Trends Microbiol. 1999, 7, 425-426.
18. Felsenfeld, G.; Sandeen, G. J. Mol. Biol. 1962, 5, 587-610.
19. Cox, R.A. Biochem. J. 1970, 120, 539-547.
20. Ohgawara, M.; Uchida, T. Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 1981, 20, 75-78.
21. Mojica, F.; Charbonnier, F.; Juez, G.; Rodríguez-Valera, F.; Forterre, P. J. Bacteriol. 1994, 176, 4966-4973.
22. Cherstvy, A.G. J. Phys. Chem. B 2008, 112, 12585-12595.
23. Yan, L.; Iwasaki, H. Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 2002, 41, 7556-7559.
24. Yan, L.; Iwasaki, H. Chaos Solitons Fract. 2004, 20, 877-881.
25. Reich, Z.; Levin-Zaidman, S.; Gutman, S.B.; Arad, T.; Minsky, A. Biochemistry 1994, 33, 14177-14184.
26. Mojzisova, H.; Olesiak, J.; Zielinski, M.; Matczyszyn, K.; Chauvat D.; Zyss, J. Biophys. J. 2009, 97, 2348-2357.