Electrophoretic orientation of DNA detected by linear dichroism spectroscopy

1 January 1985

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 7,p. 422-423
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39850000422

Abstract

The observation is reported of partial, but significant, alignment of DNA during electrophoretic migration in an aqueous polyacrylamide gel; orientation of elongated macromolecules due to electrophoretic motion has been postulated before but never directly measured.

Keywords

LINEAR DICHROISM