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Conformation and Rheological Properties of Calf-Thymus DNA in Solution.

ABSTRACT: Studies of DNA molecule behavior in aqueous solutions performed through different approaches allow assessment of the solute-solvent interactions and examination of the strong influence of conformation on its physicochemical properties, in the presence of different ionic species and ionic concentrations. Firstly, the conformational behavior of calf-thymus DNA molecules in TE buffer solution is presented as a function of temperature. Secondly, their rheological behavior is discussed, as well as the evidence of the critical concentrations, i.e., the overlap and the entanglement concentrations (C* and C_e, respectively) from steady state flow and oscillatory dynamic shear experiments. The determination of the viscosity in the Newtonian plateau obtained from flow curves ? ( ) allows estimation of the intrinsic viscosity and the specific viscosities at zero shear when C[?] < 40. At end, a generalized master curve is obtained from the variation of the specific viscosity as a function of the overlap parameter C[?]. The variation of the exponent s obtained from the power law ?~ ^-s for both flow and dynamic results is discussed in terms of Graessley's analysis. In the semi-dilute regime with entanglements, a dynamic master curve is obtained as a function of DNA concentration (C_DNA > 2.0 mg/mL) and temperature (10 °C < T < 40 °C).

SUBMITTER: Bravo-Anaya LM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6432584 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Conformation and Rheological Properties of Calf-Thymus DNA in Solution.

Bravo-Anaya Lourdes Mónica LM Rinaudo Marguerite M Martínez Félix Armando Soltero FAS

Polymers 20160211 2

Studies of DNA molecule behavior in aqueous solutions performed through different approaches allow assessment of the solute-solvent interactions and examination of the strong influence of conformation on its physicochemical properties, in the presence of different ionic species and ionic concentrations. Firstly, the conformational behavior of calf-thymus DNA molecules in TE buffer solution is presented as a function of temperature. Secondly, their rheological behavior is discussed, as well as th ...[more]

PMID: 30979142

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Project description:Previous investigations were conducted on two concentrations of DNA solution: 4 mg/mL, for which it has been shown that no supramolecular organization is induced under flow at low shear rates; and 10 mg/mL, in which a liquid crystalline-type texture is formed under flow at low shear rates, attesting to an orientation of pre-organized chains. Rheological experiments are discussed and their results supported by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and flow birefringence visualization experiments. Scattering from polyelectrolytes has a characteristic signal, which is here observed in SAXS, showing a strong correlation peak between charged chains in water, for both concentrations. This peak is weaker in the presence of 0.01 M NaCl and suppressed in salt excess at 0.1 M NaCl. No plateau in the σ( γ ˙ ) plot was observed in analysis of rheological experiments on low DNA concentration (4 mg/mL). As typically observed in polyelectrolyte systems both the dynamic moduli and shear viscosity were higher in water as electrostatic forces dominate, than in the presence of salt, especially at low shear rates. The rheological results for concentrations of 0.01 M NaCl are lower than in water as expected due to partial screening of electrostatic repulsions. Rheological data for concentrations of 0.1 M NaCl are unexpected. Electrostatic forces are partially screened in the low salt concentration, leading to a drop in the rheological values. For high salt concentration there are no longer interchain repulsions and so steric interactions dominate within the entangled network leading to the subsequent increase in rheological parameters. Regardless of the solvent, at high shear rates the solutions are birefringent. In the 10 mg/mL case, under flow, textures are formed at relatively low shear rate before all the chains align going to a pseudonematic liquid crystalline phase at high shear rate. The electrostatic repulsion between semi-rigid chains induces a correlation between the chains leading to an electrostatic pseudo-gel in water and loosely in 0.01 M NaCl at low stress applied. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that such behavior is observed. In 0.1 M NaCl, DNA behavior resembles the corresponding neutral polymer as expected for polyelectrolyte in salt excess, exhibiting a yield stress. When texture appears in water and in 0.01 M NaCl, a critical transition is observed in rheological curves, where the viscosity decreases sharply at a given critical shear stress corresponding to a plateau in the σ( γ ˙ ) plot also observed in creep transient experiment.

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