Yuuki Sugawara, Takanori Tamaki and Takeo Yamaguchi
Polym. Chem., 2014,5, 4612-4616
DOI:
10.1039/C4PY00600C,
Communication
Binding of intercalators to dsDNA switches the aggregation phenomena of DNA–PNIPAM because the binding decreases the dsDNA conformational entropy and/or the shielding of dsDNA charges. Thus, dsDNA–PNIPAM was dramatically aggregated in response to molecular recognition of the DNA–intercalator.