Continuity of states between the cholesteric → line hexatic transition and the condensation transition in DNA solutions

Yasar, Selcuk; Podgornik, Rudolf; Valle-Orero, Jessica; Johnson, Mark R.; Parsegian, V. Adrian

doi:10.1038/srep06877

Title: Continuity of states between the cholesteric → line hexatic transition and the condensation transition in DNA solutions

Journal Article · Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2014 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep06877· OSTI ID:1221786

Yasar, Selcuk ^[1]; Podgornik, Rudolf ^[2]; Valle-Orero, Jessica ^[3]; Johnson, Mark R. ^[4]; Parsegian, V. Adrian ^[1]

Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States); J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana (Slovenia); Univ. of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Institut Laue Langevin (France); Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon (France); Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble (France)

A new method of finely temperature-tuning osmotic pressure allows one to identify the cholesteric → line hexatic transition of oriented or unoriented long-fragment DNA bundles in monovalent salt solutions as first order, with a small but finite volume discontinuity. This transition is similar to the osmotic pressure-induced expanded → condensed DNA transition in polyvalent salt solutions at small enough polyvalent salt concentrations. Therefore there exists a continuity of states between the two. This finding, together with the corresponding empirical equation of state, effectively relates the phase diagram of DNA solutions for monovalent salts to that for polyvalent salts and sheds some light on the complicated interactions between DNA molecules at high densities.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

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Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 4; ISSN 2045-2322

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