کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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220597 | 463340 | 2008 | 7 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of using the IrCl62-/3- redox couple to investigate DNA monolayers, and compares the potential advantages of this system to the standard Fe(CN)63-/4- redox couple. B-DNA monolayers were converted to M-DNA by incubation in buffer containing 0.4 mM Zn2+ at pH 8.6 and studied by cyclic voltammetry (CV), impedance spectroscopy (IS) and chronoamperometry (CA) with IrCl62-/3-. Compared to B-DNA, M-DNA showed significant changes in CV, IS and CA spectra. However, only small changes were observed when the monolayers were incubated in Mg2+ at pH 8.6 or in Zn2+ at pH 6.0. The heterorgeneous electron-transfer rate (kET) between the redox probe and the surface of a bare gold electrode was determined to be 5.7 × 10−3 cm/s. For a B-DNA modified electrode, the kET through the monolayer was too slow to be measured. However, under M-DNA conditions, a kET of 1.5 × 10−3 cm/s was reached. As well, the percent change in resistance to charge transfer, measured by IS, was used to illustrate the dependence of M-DNA formation on pH. This result is consistent with Zn2+ ions replacing the imino protons on thymine and guanine residues. The IrCl62-/3- redox couple was also effective in differentiating between single-stranded and double-stranded DNA during de-hybridization and rehybridization experiments.
Journal: Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry - Volume 617, Issue 1, 1 June 2008, Pages 71–77