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SUBMITTER: Prigodich AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3918422 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prigodich Andrew E AE Lee One-Sun OS Daniel Weston L WL Seferos Dwight S DS Schatz George C GC Mirkin Chad A CA
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20100801 31
We report a method for increasing the rate of target hybridization on DNA-functionalized surfaces using a short internal complement DNA (sicDNA) strand. The sicDNA causes up to a 5-fold increase in association rate by inducing a conformational change that extends the DNA away from the surface, making it more available to bind target nucleic acids. The sicDNA-induced kinetic enhancement is a general phenomenon that occurred with all sequences and surfaces investigated. Additionally, the process i ...[more]