Fig. 2.
Schematic of DNA hydrogel formation through rolling circle amplification using agarose-based microbeads. (a) The templates are self-assembled to form an asymmetric dumbbell shape. And the primers are immobilized on the microbeads. (b) The templates are hybridized with primers immobilized on microbeads surface. (c) When the template on the microbead hybridized with a target pathogen, (d) the template can be ligated to form a closed-loop template. (e) RCA products are elongated by Phi29 polymerase. (f) The dumbbell-shaped long DNAs are aggregated with neighbor DNAs and form a DNA gel in bead voids.
