Abstract

Despite decades of theoretical and experimental research, the mechanism of ion-driven DNA condensation remains elusive. Numerous models successfully describe this condensation, including those invoking dynamic counterion fluctuations, salt bridges, static counterion lattices, and models that invoke the underlying DNA geometry, all while presenting different models for ion binding, DNA self-attraction, and the underlying energy landscape. We present research on isothermal calorimetry (ITC) of DNA condensation to extract the thermodynamic parameters that drive this process.

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