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Nature 358, 600 - 602 (13 August 1992); doi:10.1038/358600a0
DNA electrophoresis in microlithographic arrays
W. D. Volkmuth & R. H. Austin
Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
WE have used optical microlithography to fabricate capped quasi-two-dimensional obstacle courses in SiO2. We report here observations using epifluorescence microscopy of the electrophoresis and length fractionation of large DNA molecules confined in arrays. Simple reptation theory, based on the work of deGennes1, predicts that at low electric fields the electrophoretic mobility of a polymer of length L much greater than the persistence length p scales inversely with L (ref. 2). But elongation of the coil in the matrix at sufficiently strong electric fields3 results in a length-independent electrophoretic mobility4,5. The application of suitably timed pulsed electric fields restores the fractionating power of gels for long molecules6 but the protocols of pulsed-field electrophoresis are semi-empirical because the complex and ill-understood gel matrix plays a critical role in fractionation. Microlithographically constructed obstacle arrays, with their low dimensionality, small volume and extremely reproducible topography, will make it possible to understand the motion and fractionation of large polymer molecules in complex but well characterized topologies.
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