Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging Study of Aligning DNA by Dumbbell-like Au-Fe3 O4 Magnetic Nanoparticles

Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids
Jianyu LiuWenke Zhang

Abstract

Studies on nucleic acid structure and interactions between nucleic acid and its binding molecules are of great importance for understanding and controlling many important biological processes. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging is one of the most efficient methods to disclose the DNA structure and binding modes between DNA and DNA-binding molecules. Long-chain DNA tends to form a random coiled structure, which prevents direct AFM imaging observation of the subtle structure formed by DNA itself or protein binding. Aligning DNA from the random coiled state into the extended state is not only important for applications in DNA nanotechnology but also for elucidating the interaction mechanism between DNA and other molecules. Here, we developed an efficient method based on the magnetic field to align long-chain DNA on a silicon surface. We used AFM imaging to study the alignment of DNA at the single-molecule level, showing that DNA can be stretched and highly aligned by the manipulation of magnetic nanoparticles tethered to one end of DNA and that the aligned DNA can be imaged clearly by AFM. In the absence of the magnetic field, the aligned DNA can relax back to a random coiled state upon rinsing. Such alignment and relaxation ca...Continue Reading

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