Issue June 2001

category image Volume 18
No. 6 (p 783-1032)
June 2001
ISSN 0739-1102

Branched Nanowire Based Guanine Rich Oligonucleotides (p. 807-812)

Self-assembly and aggregation of guanine rich sequences can provide useful insights into DNA nanotechnology and telomeric structure and function. In this paper, we designed a guanine rich sequence d(GGCGTTTTGCGG). We found that it can form stable structure in appropriate condition and it exhibits an anomalous CD spectra. This structures can be imaged in ambient environment with a Nanoscope III AFM (Digital Instruments). We found it forms branch structure and long multistrand DNA nanowire after incubation at 37ºC for 6-12 hours in 25 mM TE (pH=8.0) + 5 mM Mg2+ + 50 mM K+. The ability to self-assemble into branches and long wires not only clearly demonstrate its potential as scaffold structures for nanotechnology, but also give aids to understand telomeric structure further. We have proposed a model to explain how these structures formed.

Chunqing Zhou
Zukun Tan
Chen Wang
Zhongqing Wei
Zhigang Wang
Chunli Bai*
Jinfen Qin
Enhua Cao

Institute of Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing 100080
China and Institute of Biophysics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing 100101
China
*clbai@infoc3.icas.ac.cn

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