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Title: Nanosheets and 2d-nanonetworks by Mutually Assisted Self-assembly of Fullerene Clusters and DNA Three-way Junctions
Authors: Vittala, S K
Saraswathi, S K
Ramesan, A B
Joseph, J
Keywords: DNA three-way junctions
2D-nanonetworks
fullerene clusters
Issue Date: 9-Sep-2019
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Citation: Nanoscale Advances; 1(10):4158-4165
Abstract: Programmable construction of two dimensional (2D) nanoarchitectures using short DNA strands is of utmost interest in the context of DNA nanotechnology. Previously, we have demonstrated fullerene-cluster assisted self-assembly of short oligonucleotide duplexes into micrometer long, semiconducting nanowires. This report demonstrates the construction of micrometer-sized nanosheets and 2D-nanonetworks from the mutual self-assembly of fullerene nanoclusters with three way junction DNA (3WJ-DNA) and 3WJ-DNA with a 12-mer overhang (3WJ-OH), respectively. The interaction of unique sized fullerene clusters prepared from an aniline appended fullerene derivative, F-An, with two 3WJ-DNAs, namely, 3WJ-20 and 3WJ-30, having 20 and 30 nucleobases, respectively at each strand was characterized using UV-visible absorption, circular dichroism and fluorescence techniques. The morphological characterization of nanosheets embedded with F-An clusters was performed via AFM, TEM and DLS analyses. The programmability and structural tunability of the resultant nanostructures were further demonstrated using 3WJ-OH containing a cytosine rich, single stranded DNA 12-mer overhang, which forms entangled 2D-nanonetwork structures instead of nanosheets due to the differential interaction of F-An nanoclusters with single and duplex strands of 3WJ-OH. Moreover, the selective modification of the cytosine rich sequence present in 3WJ-OH with silver nanoclusters (AgNCs) resulted in significant enhancement in silver nanocluster fluorescence (∼40%) compared to 3WJ-OH/AgNCs owing to the additional stability of AgNCs embedded in 2D nanostructures. This unique strategy of constructing DNA based 2D nanomaterials and their utilization in the integration of functional motifs could find application in the area of DNA nanotechnology and bio-molecular sensing.
URI: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2019/na/c9na00485h
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