Luminescent Helical Nanofiber Self-Assembled from a Cholesterol-Based Metalloamphiphile and Its Application in DNA Conformation Recognition
Compared to pure organic amphiphiles, metalloamphiphiles display distinctive features, including luminescence, magnetism and catalytic properties. However, the self-organization of metalloamphiphiles is commonly driven by solvophobic effects. Alkyl chains and oligomeric ethylene glycol moieties are...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 32(2016), 40 vom: 11. Okt., Seite 10350-10357 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2016
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Coordination Complexes DNA, Single-Stranded Luminescent Agents Surface-Active Agents Terbium 06SSF7P179 Cholesterol 97C5T2UQ7J |
| Zusammenfassung: | Compared to pure organic amphiphiles, metalloamphiphiles display distinctive features, including luminescence, magnetism and catalytic properties. However, the self-organization of metalloamphiphiles is commonly driven by solvophobic effects. Alkyl chains and oligomeric ethylene glycol moieties are thus the most frequently used aggregation units to drive the self-assembly of metalloamphiphiles. We expect novel metallo-supramolecular structures with exciting functions to be created if additional noncovalent interaction modes are incorporated. In this work, a new type of metalloamphiphile, consisting of a Tb(III) complex head and a cholesteryl unit (TbL3+(I)), was designed and synthesized. TbL3+(I) spontaneously self-assembles into helical nanofibers (d = 6 nm) in water. This synthetic multivalent nanoscale binding array displays powerful capability for the recognition of DNA conformations through a turn-on luminescence sensing mechanism. ssDNA-kit1 triggered a 26-fold increase in the luminescence intensity of TbL3+(I). Its corresponding G-quadruplex structure (G-quadruplex-kit1), however, induced a 6.6-fold enhancement under the same conditions. Consequently, TbL3+(I) nanofibers can monitor DNA folding. In contrast, neither ssDNA-kit1 nor G-quadruplex-kit1 markedly promoted the luminescence of molecularly dispersed TbL3+(II), illustrating that the multivalent electrostatic interactions between the phosphate groups on the backbone of DNA and TbL3+(I) self-assembled into nanofibers could greatly improve the efficiency of the energy transfer between the guanine units and the organized TbL3+(I). The TbL3+(I) nanofibers could bind and distinguish not only the kit1-ssDNA/G-quadruplex but also the conformations of other G-rich DNA, such as spb1, htelo, and intermolec-htelo. The self-assembly of luminescent metalloamphiphiles thus provides a general and convenient strategy for the efficient recognition and conversion of molecular information |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 21.06.2018 Date Revised 21.06.2018 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1520-5827 |