Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 32, Issue 24, Pages 6028-6034Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00456
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- PhRMA Foundation
- University at Albany start-up funds
- National Science Foundation [ACI-1053575]
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In just over a decade since its discovery, research on graphene has exploded due to a number of potential applications in electronics, materials, and medicine. In its water-soluble form of graphene oxide, the material has shown promise as a biosensor due to its preferential absorption of single-stranded polynucleotides and fluorescence quenching properties. The rational design of these biosensors, however, requires an improved understanding of the binding thermodynamics and ultimately a predictive model of sequence-specific binding. Toward these goals, here we directly measured the binding of nucleosides and oligonucleotides to graphene oxide nanoparticles using isothermal titration calorimetry and used the results to develop molecular models of graphene nucleic acid interactions. We found individual nucleosides binding K-D values lie in the submillimolar range with binding order of rG < rA < rC < dT < rU, while Smer and LSmer oligonucleotides had markedly higher binding affinities in the range of micromolar and submicromolar K-D values, respectively. The molecular models developed here are calibrated to quantitatively reproduce the above-mentioned experimental results. For oligonucleotides, our model predicts complex binding features such as double-stacked bases and a decrease in the fraction of graphene stacked bases with increasing oligonucleotide length until plateauing beyond similar to 10-15 nucleotides. These experimental and computational results set the platform for informed design of graphene-based biosensors, further increasing their potential and application.
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