Retention of Gold Nanoparticles in the Structure of Quasinematic Layers Formed by DNA Moleculesстатья
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Аннотация:Gold nanoparticles are shown to get incorporated into doubleestranded DNA molecules forming
quasinematic layers in the cholesteric liquiddcrystalline dispersion particles. The process of nanoparticle incorporation results in distortion in an ordered arrangement of the neighboring dsDNA molecules in a layer and in global spatial structure of particles of the dispersion, which may be one of the possible causes of the genotoxicity of gold nanoparticles.