Dependence of the sedimentation of high molecular weight DNA on centrifuge speed
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Dependence of the sedimentation of high molecular weight DNA on centrifuge speed
Abstract
A theory by Zimm [B.H.Zimm, Biophys. Chem. 1-(1974)279] predicts that for a given centrifuge speed, there is a broad maximum in a plot of the sedimentation coefficient of DNA against molecular wight. Experimental measurements of these maxima for various centrifuge speeds were made for double-helical DNA in neutral sucrose gradients and singlestrand DNA in alkaline gradients. The measurements are in quantitative agreement with the theory, providing good evidence for its validity. The existence of the maximum shows that there is a limit to the sedimentation rate under specified conditions for KNA in the linear form. By implication, DNA observed to sediment faster than this limit is not in the linear form to which most sedimentation theory is applicable.
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