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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 83, Issue 17, Pages 6849-6855Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac201783h
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H027815/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/H027815/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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In this work, we establish the use of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) as a label-free analytical technique for the direct detection of G-quadruplex formation. In particular, we demonstrate that SERS analysis allows the evaluation of the relative stability of G quadruplexes that differ for the number of G tetrads and investigate several structural features of quadruplexes, such as the orientation of glycosidic bonds, the identification of distortions in the sugar-phosphate backbone, and the degree of hydrogen-bond solvation. Herein, the fluctuation of the SERS spectra, due to the specific interaction of vibrational modes with the SERS-active substrate, is quantitatively analyzed before and after quadruplex formation. The results of this study suggest a perpendicular orientation of the quadruplexes (with or without the 3'-tetra end linker) with respect to the silver colloidal surface, which opens new perspectives for the use of SERS as a label-free analytical tool for the study of the binding mode between quadruplexes and their ligands.
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