J 2012

Elongated Thrombin Binding Aptamer: A G-Quadruplex Cation-Sensitive Conformational Switch

RACHE, Aurore De, Iva KEJNOVSKÁ, Michaela VORLÍČKOVÁ a Claudine BUESS-HERMAN

Základní údaje

Originální název

Elongated Thrombin Binding Aptamer: A G-Quadruplex Cation-Sensitive Conformational Switch

Autoři

RACHE, Aurore De, Iva KEJNOVSKÁ, Michaela VORLÍČKOVÁ a Claudine BUESS-HERMAN

Vydání

Chemistry - A European Journal, WEINHEIM, WILEY-VCH, 2012, 0947-6539

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10610 Biophysics

Stát vydavatele

Německo

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 5.831

Organizační jednotka

Středoevropský technologický institut

UT WoS

000302073700033

Klíčová slova anglicky

circular dichroism; DNA structures; G-quadruplexes; hexa-ammine ruthenium; thermal difference spectra

Štítky

Změněno: 6. 4. 2016 14:05, Olga Křížová

Anotace

V originále

Aptamer-based biosensors offer promising perspectives for high performance, specific detection of proteins. The thrombin binding aptamer (TBA) is a G-quadruplex-forming DNA sequence, which is frequently elongated at one end to increase its analytical performances in a biosensor configuration. Herein, we investigate how the elongation of TBA at its 5' end affects its structure and stability. Circular dichroism spectroscopy shows that TBA folds in an antiparallel G-quadruplex conformation with all studied cations (Ba2+, Ca2+, K+, Mg2+, Na+, NH4+, Sr2+ and the [Ru(NH3)6]2+/3+ redox marker) whereas other structures are adopted by the elongated aptamers in the presence of some of these cations. The stability of each structure is evaluated on the basis of UV spectroscopy melting curves. Thermal difference spectra confirm the quadruplex character of all conformations. The elongated sequences can adopt a parallel or an antiparallel structure, depending on the nature of the cation; this can potentially confer an ion-sensitive switch behavior. This switch property is demonstrated with the frequently employed redox complex [Ru(NH3)6]3+, which induces the parallel conformation at very low concentrations (10 equiv per strand). The addition of large amounts of K+ reverts the conformation to the antiparallel form, and opens interesting perspectives for electrochemical biosensing or redox-active responsive devices.