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ArticleNature communications2018

Topologically frustrated dynamics of crowded charged macromolecules in charged hydrogels.

Di Jia, Murugappan Muthukumar

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Advances in Hydrogel-Based Drug Delivery Systems.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  5. Entropic barrier of topologically immobilized DNA in hydrogels.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Di JiaDepartment of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA.
Murugappan MuthukumarDepartment of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA. muthu@polysci.umass.edu.

Funding

Modeling Macromolecular Transport through Protein Channels and NanoporesR01HG002776 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI MUTHUKUMAR, MURUGAPPAN · 2003 to 2022
$5.3M
Center for Selective C-H Functionalization, National Science Foundation DMR-1504265DOD | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AF Office of Scientific Research) FA9550-17-1-0160NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG002776U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) R01HG002776-11
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Movement of charged macromolecules in crowded aqueous environments is a ubiquitous phenomenon vital to the various living processes and formulations of materials for health care. While study of diffusion of tracer amounts of probe macromolecules trapped inside concentrated solutions, gels, or random media has led to an enhanced understanding of this complex process, the collective dynamics of charged macromolecules embedded inside congested charge-bearing matrices still remains to be fully explored. Here we report a frustrated dynamics of DNA and synthetic polyelectrolytes inside a charged host hydrogel where the guest molecules do not diffuse. Instead, they exhibit a family of relaxation processes arising from a combination of conformational entropy and local chain dynamics, which are frustrated by the confinement from the gel. We also have developed a model explaining this new universality class of non-diffusive topologically frustrated dynamics of charged macromolecules.

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AlgorithmsDiffusionDNAEntropyHydrogelsKineticsMacromolecular SubstancesModels, ChemicalMolecular ConformationPolyelectrolytesSolutionsDNAHydrogelsMacromolecular SubstancesPolyelectrolytesSolutions

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PMID29884894
PMCPMC5993817

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