Parallel arrays of geometric nanowells for assembling curtains of DNA with controlled lateral dispersion.
The analysis of individual molecules is evolving into an important tool for biological research, and presents conceptually new ways of approaching experimental design strategies. However, more robust methods are required if these technologies are to be made broadly available to the biological research community. To help achieve this goal we have combined nanofabrication techniques with single-molecule optical microscopy for assembling and visualizing curtains comprised of thousands of individual DNA molecules organized at engineered diffusion barriers on a lipid bilayer-coated surface. Here we present an important extension of this technology that implements geometric barrier patterns comprised of thousands of nanoscale wells that can be loaded with single molecules of DNA. We show that these geometric nanowells can be used to precisely control the lateral distribution of the individual DNA molecules within curtains assembled along the edges of the engineered barrier patterns. The individual molecules making up the DNA curtain can be separated from one another by a user-defined distance dictated by the dimensions of the nanowells. We demonstrate the broader utility of these patterned DNA curtains in a novel, real time restriction assay that we refer to as dynamic optical restriction mapping, which can be used to rapidly identify entire sets of cleavage sites within a large DNA molecule.
Visnapuu
Mari-Liis
ML
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, 650 West 168th Street, Black Building Room 536, New York, New York 10032, USA.
Fazio
Teresa
T
Wind
Shalom
S
Greene
Eric C
EC
D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000648:ultrastructure; D016678:Genome / Q000235:genetics*; D018625:Microscopy, Atomic Force; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
D004247:DNA
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