Energetics of chitosan (CS) polyplexes and conformational stability of bound DNA were studied at pH 5.0 by ITC and HS-DSC, respectively. The CS-DNA binding isotherm was well approximated by the McGhee-von Hippel model suggesting the binding mechanism to be a cooperative attachment of interacting CS ligands to the DNA matrix. Melting thermograms of polyplexes revealed the transformation of different conformational forms of bound DNA in dependence on the CS/DNA weight ratio r. At 0
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