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Electrophoresis of a DNA coil near a nanopore

Payam Rowghanian* and Alexander Y. Grosberg

  • Department of Physics and Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003, USA

  • *payam.rowghanian@physics.nyu.edu

Phys. Rev. E 87, 042723 – Published 29 April, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042723

Abstract

Motivated by DNA electrophoresis near a nanopore, we consider the flow field around an “elongated jet,” a long thin source which injects momentum into a liquid. This solution qualitatively describes the electro-osmotic flow around a long rigid polymer, where due to electrohydrodynamic coupling, the solvent receives momentum from the electric field. Based on the qualitative behavior of the elongated jet solution, we develop a coarse-grained scheme which reproduces the known theoretical results regarding the electrophoretic behavior of a long rigid polymer and a polymer coil in a uniform field, which we then exploit to analyze the electrophoresis of a polymer coil in the nonuniform field near a nanopore.

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