Lowering Entropic Barriers in Triplex DNA Switches Facilitating Biomedical Applications at Physiological pH

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Triplex DNA switches are attractive allosteric tools for engineering smart nanodevices, but their poor triplex-forming capacity at physiological conditions limited the practical applications. To address this challenge, we proposed a low-entropy barrier design to facilitate triplex formation by introducing a hairpin duplex linker into the triplex motif, and the resulting triplex switch was termed as CTNSds. Compared to the conventional clamp-like triplex switch, CTNSds increased the triplex-forming ratio from 30 % to 91 % at pH 7.4 and stabilized the triple-helix structure in FBS and cell lysate. CTNSds was also less sensitive to free-energy disturbances, such as lengthening linkers or mismatches in the triple-helix stem. The CTNSds design was utilized to reversibly isolate CTCs from whole blood, achieving high capture efficiencies (>86 %) at pH 7.4 and release efficiencies (>80 %) at pH 8.0. Our approach broadens the potential applications of DNA switches-based switchable nanodevices, showing great promise in biosensing and biomedicine.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:63

Enthalten in:

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) - 63(2024), 19 vom: 06. Apr., Seite e202402123

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lei, Yanli [VerfasserIn]
Li, Chuangchuang [VerfasserIn]
Ji, Xinyue [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Haiyan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xiaowen [VerfasserIn]
Mao, Zenghui [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Weiju [VerfasserIn]
Qing, Zhihe [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Juewen [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9007-49-2
Biosensing
Cell capture and release
DNA
Entropic barriers
Journal Article
Physiological pH
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Triplex DNA
Triplex DNA switch

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Date Completed 25.04.2024

Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/anie.202402123

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369433971