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AIST TODAYNo.15 Winter 2005


Microfluidic Conformational Changing of Macromolecule and Efficient Chemical Reaction

Kenichi YAMASHITA
Micro-Space Chemistry Laboratory
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Conformational control of macromolecules is useful for efficient chemical and biochemical reactions. This paper reports a conformational control method for macromolecules, such as long-strand DNA, in microchannel flow, along with a simple method to stretch DNA strands by microfluidics. Stretching and orientation of DNA molecules by control of flow within a microchannel was directly observed by optical microscopy. This technique is useful to create chemical reactions with macromolecules; it offers high selectivity and efficiency that are impossible to achieve in bulk solution. We also demonstrated that our microfluidic stretching method can accomplish efficient hybridization of long-strand DNA.

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Direct observation of long-strand DNA structures in microchannel flow

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