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SUBMITTER: Chuang HM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5839665 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chuang Hui-Min HM Reifenberger Jeffrey G JG Cao Han H Dorfman Kevin D KD
Physical review letters 20171129 22
Using a high-throughput genome-mapping approach, we obtained circa 50 million measurements of the extension of internal human DNA segments in a 41 nm×41 nm nanochannel. The underlying DNA sequences, obtained by mapping to the reference human genome, are 2.5-393 kilobase pairs long and contain percent GC contents between 32.5% and 60%. Using Odijk's theory for a channel-confined wormlike chain, these data reveal that the DNA persistence length increases by almost 20% as the percent GC content i ...[more]