Solid phase DNA amplification: a Brownian dynamics study of crowding effects.

Abstract:

:Solid phase amplification (SPA), a new method to amplify DNA, is characterized by the use of surface-bound primers. This limits the amplification to two-dimensional surfaces and therefore allows the easy parallelization of DNA amplification in a single system. SPA leads to the formation of small but dense DNA brushes, called DNA colonies. For a molecule to successfully duplicate itself, it needs to bend so that its free end can find a matching primer, located on the surface. We used Brownian dynamics simulations (with a united-atom model) to model the basic kinetics of an SPA experiment. The simulations mimic the temperature cycles and the molecule duplication process found in SPA. Our results indicate that the steric interaction between molecules leads to a decreased duplication probability for molecules in the center of a colony and to an outward leaning for the molecules on the perimeter. These effects result in slower amplification (compared to solution PCR) and indicate that steric interaction alone can explain the loss of the exponential growth (characteristic of solution PCR) of the number of molecules in an SPA experiment. Furthermore, the growth of the colony as a function of the number of thermal cycles is found to be similar to the one obtained with a simple Monte Carlo simulation.

journal_name

Biophys J

journal_title

Biophysical journal

authors

Mercier JF,Slater GW

doi

10.1529/biophysj.104.051904

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-07-01 00:00:00

pages

32-42

issue

1

eissn

0006-3495

issn

1542-0086

pii

S0006-3495(05)72655-2

journal_volume

89

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