Experimental Measurement of Surface Charge Effects on the Stability of a Surface-Bound Biopolymer
Quantitative experimental studies of the thermodynamics with which biopolymers interact with specific surfaces remain quite limited. In response, here we describe experimental and theoretical studies of the change in folding free energy that occurs when a simple biopolymer, a DNA stem-loop, is site-...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 34(2018), 49 vom: 11. Dez., Seite 14993-14999 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2018
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Sulfhydryl Compounds Gold 7440-57-5 DNA 9007-49-2 |
| Zusammenfassung: | Quantitative experimental studies of the thermodynamics with which biopolymers interact with specific surfaces remain quite limited. In response, here we describe experimental and theoretical studies of the change in folding free energy that occurs when a simple biopolymer, a DNA stem-loop, is site-specifically attached to a range of chemically distinct surfaces generated via self-assembled monolayer formation on a gold electrode. Not surprisingly, the extent to which surface attachment alters the biopolymer's folding free energy depends strongly on the charge of the surface, with increasingly negatively charged surfaces leading to increased destabilization. A simple model that considers only the excluded volume and electrostatic repulsion generated by the surface and models the ionic environment above the surface as a continuum quantitatively recovers the observed free energy change associated with attachment to weakly charged negative surfaces. For more strongly charged negative surfaces a model taking into account the discrete size of the involved ions is required. Our studies thus highlight the important role that electrostatics can play in the physics of surface-biomolecule interactions |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 05.08.2019 Date Revised 25.02.2020 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1520-5827 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b01004 |