title: Miniemulsion droplets as single molecule nanoreactors for polymerase chain reaction.
abstract: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was successfully carried out inside stable and narrowly distributed water-in-oil nanodroplets with a size of 100-300 nm in diameter. The droplets were obtained by the miniemulsion process. Each aqueous droplet serves as a single nanoreactor for the PCR. It was found that the size of the droplets highly depends on the sonication parameters (i.e., time and amplitude) and that these parameters have a great influence on the final concentration of the PCR product. The parameters were chosen that way that conditions for single molecule chemistry were obtained, since the 3D-space is compartimentalized in small nanoreactors in each of which the same reaction takes place in a highly parallel fashion on every single DNA molecule.
authors: Departement of Organic Chemistry III - Macromolecular Chemistry and Organic Materials, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Musyanovych
authors: Volker
authors: V
authors: Mailänder
authors: Katharina
authors: K
authors: Landfester
mesh_terms: D019149:Bioreactors; D004655:Emulsions; D018625:Microscopy, Atomic Force; D036103:Nanotechnology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D013501:Surface-Active Agents
chemical_list: D004655:Emulsions; D013501:Surface-Active Agents