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Patra A, Anjali, Pandey S. Aggregation in Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs): Formation of Polar DES-in-Nonpolar DES Microemulsions. ACS PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AU 2024; 4:531-535. [PMID: 39346602 PMCID: PMC11428259 DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2024] [Revised: 06/12/2024] [Accepted: 06/12/2024] [Indexed: 10/01/2024]
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The versatility of environmentally benign and inexpensive deep eutectic solvents (DESs) lies in their widely varying physicochemical properties. Depending on its constituents, a DES may be highly polar or nonpolar in nature. This offers an enticing possibility of formation of novel nonaqueous microemulsions (MEs). Evidence of the presence of polar DES-in-nonpolar DES MEs is presented with reline (formed by mixing choline chloride and urea in 1 : 2 mol ratio) as the polar DES forming the ME pools, Thy : DA [formed by mixing thymol (Thy) and n-decanoic acid (DA) in 1 : 1 mol ratio] nonpolar DES as the bulk oil phase and nonionic surfactant Brij-35 as the emulsifying agent. While only sparingly miscible in Thy : DA, as high as 2.5 M reline can be solubilized in this DES in the presence of 100 mM Brij-35; reline loading (w Rel = [reline]/[Brij-35]) as high as 25 can be achieved. The ternary phase diagram of the Thy : DA/Brij-35/reline system reveals a clear and transparent single-phase region where MEs may be forming. Dynamic light scattering confirms the presence of MEs of 2-10 nm size. Even as up to 2.5 M (ca. 0.35 mole fraction) reline, whose dynamic viscosity (η) and electrical conductivity (κ) are very high, is added to 100 mM Brij-35 solution of Thy : DA, the η and κ values of the solution increase insignificantly, thus conforming to the formation of MEs in the solution. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) absorbance spectra and fluorescence probe responses further indicate that reline is not dispersed in the medium but rather forms polar pools of the MEs. These novel nonaqueous polar DES-in-nonpolar DES MEs will not only expand the application potential of DESs but also offer a new class of organized media with widespread potential.
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- Anushis Patra
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
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Stackhouse CI, Pierson KN, Labrecque CL, Mawson C, Berg J, Fuglestad B, Nucci NV. Characterization of 10MAG/LDAO reverse micelles: Understanding versatility for protein encapsulation. Biophys Chem 2024; 311:107269. [PMID: 38815545 PMCID: PMC11225088 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2024.107269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2024] [Revised: 05/17/2024] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024]
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Reverse micelles (RMs) are spontaneously organizing nanobubbles composed of an organic solvent, surfactants, and an aqueous phase that can encapsulate biological macromolecules for various biophysical studies. Unlike other RM systems, the 1-decanoyl-rac-glycerol (10MAG) and lauryldimethylamine-N-oxide (LDAO) surfactant system has proven to house proteins with higher stability than other RM mixtures with little sensitivity to the water loading (W0, defined by the ratio of water to surfactant). We investigated this unique property by encapsulating three model proteins - cytochrome c, myoglobin, and flavodoxin - in 10MAG/LDAO RMs and applying a variety of experimental methods to characterize this system's behavior. We found that this surfactant system differs greatly from the traditional, spherical, monodisperse RM population model. 10MAG/LDAO RMs were discovered to be oblate ellipsoids at all conditions, and as W0 was increased, surfactants redistributed to form a greater number of increasingly spherical ellipsoidal particles with pools of more bulk-like water. Proteins distinctively influence the thermodynamics of the mixture, encapsulating at their optimal RM size and driving protein-free RM sizes to scale accordingly. These findings inform the future development of similarly malleable encapsulation systems and build a foundation for application of 10MAG/LDAO RMs to analyze biological and chemical processes under nanoscale confinement.
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- Crystal I Stackhouse
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ 08028, United States; Department of Biomedical and Biological Sciences, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ 08028, United States.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ 08028, United States; Department of Biomedical and Biological Sciences, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ 08028, United States.
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284, United States.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ 08028, United States; Department of Biomedical and Biological Sciences, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ 08028, United States.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ 08028, United States; Department of Biomedical and Biological Sciences, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ 08028, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284, United States; Institute for Structural Biology, Drug Discovery and Development, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23219, United States.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ 08028, United States; Department of Biomedical and Biological Sciences, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ 08028, United States.
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Murakami H, Kanahara Y, Sasaki K. Freezing of Water Solvation Dynamics in Nanoconfinement by Reverse Micelles at Room Temperature. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:13082-13091. [PMID: 38867455 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c00926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
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Much attention has recently been paid to anomalously low dielectric constants of nanoconfined water between two slabs at room temperature (Fumagalli et al. Science, 2018, 360, 1339). These low values imply that the dipole rotation of the interfacial water on the slab is completely suppressed. Such freezing has so far been observed for water confined between solids. In contrast, it remains unclear whether this holds for water in soft confinement, which is omnipresent naturally and artificially. Here, we address this question using encapsulated reverse micelles with a dye molecule, allowing us to study water sandwiched between the surfactant and dye molecules in solution. Moreover, we examine the solvation related to the dielectric property of water, which is reorientational motion in the hydration layer of the dye molecule, by persistent hole-burning spectroscopy. We first show that the dye molecule is surrounded by water without contact with the surfactant and that the dye molecule has two or three hydration layers on average. We next demonstrate that the solvation dynamics is frozen below the water droplet size of ∼4 nm, whereas they become liquid-like when the RM size is further increased. The average gap distance (∼1.5 nm) for freezing the solvation agrees with the gap distance with no rotational water motions between slabs. Our findings may have biological relevance, providing a new aspect for understanding biological function in cells.
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- Hiroshi Murakami
- Institute for Quantum Life Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Faculty of Human Life and Environment, Nara Women's University, Nara 630-8506, Japan
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- Department of Physics, School of Science, and Micro/Nano Technology Center, Tokai University, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan
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Murakami H. Anomalously Large Heat Generation of Hydration Water under Microwave Irradiation. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:3898-3903. [PMID: 38602349 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2024]
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Much attention has been paid to the biological effects of microwave irradiation. The hydration water surrounding a biomolecule is crucial in its biological reactions and functions. Therefore, it is important to know the response of hydration water to microwaves to understand their biological effects; however, the scarcity of studies about it often leads to speculations and debates about that effect. In this study, we have made real-time temperature measurements of reverse micellar solutions with their water droplet size from ∼2.3 to ∼9.5 nm using a waveguide system combined with a microwave generator at 2.45 GHz. The heat generated by water in reverse micelles has been observed to depend on their size. It is about 10 times larger than that of liquid water at their small sizes (<∼3.5 nm) and diminishes with further enlarging the size, approaching the water's value at their large sizes (∼10 nm). These results indicate that the heat generation behavior has an interfacial effect; specifically, the hydration water on the surfactant layer produces heat 10 times larger than bulk water. Moreover, the hydration number per surfactant molecule decreases in a core-shell model with increasing the reverse micelle size. These features are also reflected in the heat generation rate. Our findings may offer a new and fundamental perspective for studies on the biological effects of microwave irradiation.
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- Hiroshi Murakami
- Institute for Quantum Life Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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Yao JL, Zhang Z, Li Z. Scalable Transition-Metal-Free Synthesis of Aryl Amines from Aryl Chlorides through X@RONa-Catalyzed Benzyne Formation. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:8839-8846. [PMID: 38526012 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c00426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/26/2024]
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Aryl amines are highly useful organic chemicals, but large-scale, transition-metal-free syntheses of aryl amines are surprisingly underdeveloped. A mild and scalable (up to 500 mmol) aryl amine synthesis from benzyne chemistry was invented using easily accessible aryl chlorides as precursors, NaH as a stoichiometric base, and a new type of sodium alkoxide cluster, X@RONa, as a catalyst. The cluster catalyst X@RONa featured an externally hydrophobic dodecameric sodium alkoxide shell housing an encapsulated center anion. The cluster made from methoxy-tert-butanol was found to be the most effective. The intramolecular version of this reaction allowed the synthesis of indolines and indoles. Experimental and computational mechanistic studies revealed that the rate-determining step was likely the transport of solid NaH into the X@RONa cluster in the organic phase.
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- Jia-Lin Yao
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Pudong District, Shanghai 201210, P. R. China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Pudong District, Shanghai 201210, P. R. China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Pudong District, Shanghai 201210, P. R. China
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Necelis M, McDermott C, Belcher Dufrisne M, Baryiames C, Columbus L. Solution NMR investigations of integral membrane proteins: Challenges and innovations. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2023; 82:102654. [PMID: 37542910 PMCID: PMC10529709 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2023.102654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Revised: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/07/2023]
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Compared to soluble protein counterparts, the understanding of membrane protein stability, solvent interactions, and function are not as well understood. Recent advancements in labeling, expression, and stabilization of membrane proteins have enabled solution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to investigate membrane protein conformational states, ligand binding, lipid interactions, stability, and folding. This review highlights these advancements and new understandings and provides examples of recent applications.
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- Matthew Necelis
- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
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Murakami H. Unusual microwave heating of water in reverse micellar solution. Sci Rep 2023; 13:5025. [PMID: 36977720 PMCID: PMC10050161 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-31742-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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Microwaves (MWs) are widely used for heating food, accelerating chemical reactions, drying materials, therapies, and so on. Water molecules absorb MWs and produce heat because of their substantial electric dipole moments. Recently, increasing attention has been paid to accelerating various catalytic reactions in water-containing porous materials using MW irradiation. Here, a critical question is whether water in nanoscale pores generates heat in the same way as liquid water. Is it valid that MW-heating behaviors of nanoconfined water are estimated solely by a dielectric constant of liquid water? There are almost no studies regarding this question. Here, we address it using reverse micellar (RM) solutions. Reverse micelles are water-containing nanoscale cages formed by self-assembled surfactant molecules in oil. We measured real-time temperature changes of liquid samples within a waveguide under MW irradiation at 2.45 GHz and at MW intensities of ~ 3 to ~ 12 W/cm2. We found that the heat production and its rate per unit volume of water in the RM solution are about one order of magnitude larger than those of liquid water at all the MW intensities examined. This indicates that water spots that are much hotter than liquid water under MW irradiation at the same intensity, are formed in the RM solution. Our findings will give fundamental information to develop effective and energy-saving chemical reactions in nanoscale reactors with water under MW irradiation, and to study MW effects on various aqueous mediums with nanoconfined water. Furthermore, the RM solution will serve as a platform to study the impact of nanoconfined water on MW-assisted reactions.
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- Hiroshi Murakami
- Institute for Quantum Life Science, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan.
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Khamari L, Mukherjee S. Deciphering the Nanoconfinement Effect on the Folding Pathway of c-MYC Promoter-Based Intercalated-Motif DNA by Single-Molecule Förster Resonance Energy Transfer. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:8169-8176. [PMID: 36005552 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Intercalated-motif (i-motif) DNA formed by cytosine (C)-rich sequences has been considered a novel target in anticancer research. Interestingly, this type of noncanonical DNA structure is highly dynamic and can display several conformational polymorphisms based on the immediate surrounding environment. However, studies regarding the folding pathway of i-motifs having disease-specific sequences under a confined environment at physiological pH are relatively scarce. This thereby warrants more explorations that will decipher their structural and functional properties inside constrained media. Herein, using the single-molecule Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (smFRET) studies, for the first time, we have illustrated the conformational dynamics of c-MYC promoter-based i-motif structures at physiological pH inside microemulsions of different dimensions. We concluded that the folding of such motifs under confined space is not a direct transition between the random coil and i-motif conformations; rather it occurs through a partially folded intermediate, depending on the confined dimension.
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- Laxmikanta Khamari
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal Bypass Road, Bhauri, Bhopal 462 066, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal Bypass Road, Bhauri, Bhopal 462 066, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Li W, Nforneh B, Whitcomb KL, Warncke K. Resolution and characterization of confinement- and temperature-dependent dynamics in solvent phases that surround proteins in frozen aqueous solution by using spin-probe EPR spectroscopy. Methods Enzymol 2022; 666:25-57. [PMID: 35465922 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2022.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Spin probe electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy is applied to characterize the dynamics of concentric hydration and mesophase solvent domains that surround proteins within the ice boundary in frozen aqueous solutions. The solvent dynamics are tuned by variation of temperature (190-265K) and by the degree of ice boundary confinement, which is modulated by the volume of added cryosolvent (0-~50Å separation distance from protein surface). Goals are to: (1) characterize the protein-coupled solvent dynamics on correlation time scales of ~10-10<τ<10-7s, and spatial scales from protein surface to periphery of the surrounding solution, from the perspective of a free, small-molecule (~7Å diameter) probe, and (2) reveal properties of the solvent-protein coupling that can be correlated with protein functions, that are measureable under the same conditions. Rotational mobility of the nitroxide spin probe, TEMPOL, resolves and tracks two solvent components, the protein-associated domain (PAD; akin to hydration layer) and surrounding mesodomain, through their distinct temperature- and confinement-dependent values of τ and normalized weight. Detailed protocols are described for simulation of two-component nitroxide EPR spectra, which are categorized by line shape regime and guided by a library of template spectra and simulation parameters derived from two model soluble globular proteins. The order-disorder transition in the PAD, which is a universal feature of protein-coupled solvent dynamics, provides a well-defined, tunable property for elucidating mechanism in solvent-protein-function dynamical coupling. The low-temperature mesodomain system and EPR spin probe method are generally applicable to reveal solvent contributions to a broad range of macromolecule-mediated biological processes.
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- Wei Li
- Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
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Dib N, Girardi VR, Silber JJ, Correa NM, Falcone RD. How the external solvent in biocompatible reverse micelles can improve the alkaline phosphatase behavior. Org Biomol Chem 2021; 19:4969-4977. [PMID: 34002175 DOI: 10.1039/d0ob02371j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In the last decade, the nature of the nonpolar solvents that can be part of reverse micelles (RMs) has been the topic of several investigations to improve their applications. In this sense, the hydrolysis of 1-naphthyl phosphate catalyzed by the enzyme alkaline phosphatase (AP) was used as a probe to investigate the effect of the change of the external solvent on RMs formulated with the anionic surfactant sodium diethylhexyl sulfosuccinate (AOT). As external nonpolar solvents, two biocompatible lipophilic esters, isopropyl myristate and methyl laurate, and the traditional nonpolar solvents, n-heptane and benzene, were used. The results were compared among the RMs investigated and with the reaction in homogeneous media. Thus, the effect of the nanoconfinement as well as the impact of the replacement of a conventional external nonpolar solvent by biocompatible solvents were analyzed. The results indicate that the catalytic efficiency in the AOT RMs is larger than that in homogeneous media, denoting a different hydration level over the AP enzyme, which is directly related to the different degrees of nonpolar solvent penetration to the RM interface. Our findings demonstrated that toxic solvents such as n-heptane and benzene can be replaced by nontoxic ones (isopropyl myristate or methyl laurate) in AOT RMs without affecting the performance of micellar systems as nanoreactors, making them a green and promising alternative toward efficient and sustainable chemistry.
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- Nahir Dib
- Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina and Instituto de Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS), Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina and Instituto de Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS), Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina and Instituto de Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS), Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina and Instituto de Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS), Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.
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Omidi M, Mansouri V, Mohammadi Amirabad L, Tayebi L. Impact of Lipid/Magnesium Hydroxide Hybrid Nanoparticles on the Stability of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-Loaded PLGA Microspheres. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:24370-24384. [PMID: 34006111 PMCID: PMC9328745 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c22140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The purpose of the present study is to characterize poly(d,l-lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) composite microcarriers for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) delivery. To reduce the initial burst release and protect the bioactivity, VEGF is encapsulated in soybean l-α-phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and l-α-phosphatidylcholine (PC) anhydrous reverse micelle (VEGF-RM) nanoparticles. Also, mesoporous nano-hexagonal Mg(OH)2 nanostructure (MNS)-loaded PE/PC anhydrous reverse micelle (MNS-RM) nanoparticles are synthesized to suppress the induced inflammation of PLGA acidic byproducts and regulate the release profile. The flow-focusing microfluidic geometry platforms are used to fabricate different combinations of PLGA composite microspheres (PLGA-CMPs) with MNSs, MNS-RM, VEGF-RM, and native VEGF. The essential parameters of each formulation, such as release profiles, encapsulation efficacy, bioactivity, inflammatory response, and cytotoxicity, are investigated by in vitro and in vivo studies. The results indicate that generated acidic byproducts during the hydrolytic degradation process of PLGA can be buffered, and pH values inside and outside microspheres can remain steady during degradation by MNSs. Furthermore, the significant improvement in the stability of the encapsulated VEGF is confirmed by the bioactivity assay. In vitro release study shows that the VEGF initial burst release is well minimized in the present microcarriers. The present monodisperse PLGA-CMPs can be widely used in various tissue engineering and therapeutic applications.
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- Meisam Omidi
- Marquette University School of Dentistry, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-1881, United States
- Protein Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University G.C., Tehran 19839-69411, Iran
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- Proteomics Research Center, Faculty of Paramedical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical sciences, Tehran 19857-17443, Iran
- Department of Basic Science, Faculty of Paramedical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 19857-17443, Iran
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- Marquette University School of Dentistry, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-1881, United States
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Miller SL, Wiebenga-Sanford BP, Rithner CD, Levinger NE. Nanoconfinement Raises the Energy Barrier to Hydrogen Atom Exchange between Water and Glucose. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:3364-3373. [PMID: 33784460 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c10681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In bulk aqueous environments, the exchange of protons between labile hydroxyl groups typically occurs easily and quickly. Nanoconfinement can dramatically change this normally facile process. Through exchange spectroscopy (EXSY) NMR measurements, we observe that nanoconfinement of glucose and water within AOT (sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate) reverse micelles raises the energy barrier to labile hydrogen exchange, which suggests a disruption of the hydrogen bond network. Near room temperature, we measure barriers high enough to slow the process by as much as 2 orders of magnitude. Although exchange rates slow with decreasing temperatures in these nanoconfined environments, the barrier we measure below ∼285 K is 3-5 times lower than the barrier measured at room temperature, indicating a change in mechanism for the process. These findings suggest the possibility of hydrogen tunneling at a surprisingly high-temperature threshold. Furthermore, differences in exchange rates depend on the hydroxyl group position on the glucose pyranose ring and suggest a net orientation of glucose at the reverse micelle interface.
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- Samantha L Miller
- Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1872, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1872, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1872, United States
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Matsumoto S, Sugimoto N. New Insights into the Functions of Nucleic Acids Controlled by Cellular Microenvironments. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2021; 379:17. [PMID: 33782792 DOI: 10.1007/s41061-021-00329-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The right-handed double-helical B-form structure (B-form duplex) has been widely recognized as the canonical structure of nucleic acids since it was first proposed by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953. This B-form duplex model has a monochronic and static structure and codes genetic information within a sequence. Interestingly, DNA and RNA can form various non-canonical structures, such as hairpin loops, left-handed helices, triplexes, tetraplexes of G-quadruplex and i-motif, and branched junctions, in addition to the canonical structure. The formation of non-canonical structures depends not only on sequence but also on the surrounding environment. Importantly, these non-canonical structures may exhibit a wide variety of biological roles by changing their structures and stabilities in response to the surrounding environments, which undergo vast changes at specific locations and at specific times in cells. Here, we review recent progress regarding the interesting behaviors and functions of nucleic acids controlled by molecularly crowded cellular conditions. New insights gained from recent studies suggest that nucleic acids not only code genetic information in sequences but also have unknown functions regarding their structures and stabilities through drastic structural changes in cellular environments.
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- Saki Matsumoto
- Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER), Konan University, 7-1-20 Minatojima-Minamimachi, Kobe, 650-0047, Japan
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- Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER), Konan University, 7-1-20 Minatojima-Minamimachi, Kobe, 650-0047, Japan. .,Graduate School of Frontiers of Innovative Research in Science and Technology (FIRST), Konan University, 7-1-20 Minatojima-Minamimachi, Kobe, 650-0047, Japan.
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Roberts P, Perry JK, Gupta RK, Karna SP, Frechette J. Confinement-Enhanced Luminescence in Protein-Gold Nanoclusters. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:10278-10282. [PMID: 33216558 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Confinement has profound effects on protein functions. Nanoscale probes for confinement or excluded volume interactions could help us understand how these interactions influence protein functions. This work reports on the increased luminescence of BSA-gold nanoclusters when confined. Confinement of the BSA-gold nanoclusters occurred within reverse micelles (RMs), where the size of the RMs determined the degree of confinement. The confinement-enhanced luminescence is reversible, i.e., the emission returns to its original value following cyclic changes in RM size. Circular dichroism measurements show an increase in alpha-helical character of the BSA-stabilized nanoclusters with confinement, which could provide a mechanism for the increase in luminescence. The alpha-helical character of the native proteins also increases with confinement, suggesting that the protein-nanocluster might sense confinement in an analogous fashion as the proteins. When the RMs approach the size of the protein, the intensity becomes independent of alpha-helical character, suggesting a different mechanism for the luminescence increase.
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- CCDC Army Research Laboratory, Weapons and Material Research Directorate, 6300 Rodman Road, Aberdeen, Proving Ground, Maryland 21005, United States
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- DoD Blast Injury Research Coordinating Office, U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, 504 Scott Street, Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702, United States
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- CCDC Army Research Laboratory, Weapons and Material Research Directorate, 6300 Rodman Road, Aberdeen, Proving Ground, Maryland 21005, United States
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Honegger P, Steinhauser O. The nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE) as a tool to study macromolecular confinement: Elucidation and disentangling of crowding and encapsulation effects. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:024120. [PMID: 31941328 DOI: 10.1063/1.5135816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We propose a methodology to capture short-lived but biophysically important contacts of biomacromolecules using the biomolecule-water nuclear Overhauser effect as an indirect microscope. Thus, instead of probing the direct correlation with the foreign biomolecule, we detect its presence by the disturbance it causes in the surrounding water. In addition, this information obtained is spatially resolved and can thus be attributed to specific sites. We extend this approach to the influence of more than one change in chemical environment and show a methodological way of resolution. This is achieved by taking double differences of corresponding σNOE/σROE ratios of the systems studied and separating specific, unspecific, and intermediate influence. While applied to crowding and encapsulation in this study, this method is generally suitable for any combination of changes in chemical environment.
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- Philipp Honegger
- University of Vienna, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Computational Biological Chemistry, Währingerstraße 17, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Computational Biological Chemistry, Währingerstraße 17, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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Honegger P, Steinhauser O. The protein-water nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) as an indirect microscope for molecular surface mapping of interaction patterns. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 22:212-222. [PMID: 31799520 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp04752b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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In this computational study, the intermolecular solute-solvent Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE) of the model protein ubiquitin in different chemical environments (free, bound to a partner protein and encapsulated) is investigated. Short-ranged NOE observables such as the NOE/ROE ratio reveal hydration phenomena on absolute timescales such as fast hydration sites and slow water clefts. We demonstrate the ability of solute-solvent NOE differences measured of the same protein in different chemical environments to reveal hydration changes on the relative timescale. The resulting NOE/ROE-surface maps are shown to be a central key for analyzing biologically relevant chemical influences such as complexation and confinement: the presence of a complexing macromolecule or a confining surface wall modulates the water mobility in the vicinity of the probe protein, hence revealing which residues of said protein are proximate to the foreign interface and which are chemically unaffected. This way, hydration phenomena can serve to indirectly map the precise influence (position) of other molecules or interfaces onto the protein surface. This proposed one-protein many-solvents approach may offer experimental benefits over classical one-protein other-protein pseudo-intermolecular transient NOEs. Furthermore, combined influences such as complexation and confinement may exert non-additive influences on the protein compared to a reference state. We offer a mathematical method to disentangle the influence of these two different chemical environments.
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- Philipp Honegger
- University of Vienna, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Computational Biological Chemistry, Währingerstr. 17, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
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Fuglestad B, Gupta K, Wand AJ, Sharp KA. Water loading driven size, shape, and composition of cetyltrimethylammonium/hexanol/pentane reverse micelles. J Colloid Interface Sci 2019; 540:207-217. [PMID: 30640068 PMCID: PMC6391199 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2019.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2018] [Revised: 01/03/2019] [Accepted: 01/04/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)/hexanol reverse micelles have found a variety of applications that demand control over physical parameters. Water content or loading is among the most basic tunable components and is the major driver of the physical properties of these systems. This study uses small-angle scattering with contrast variation to characterize these systems as a function of water loading. The scattering data were analyzed with a variety of approaches, resulting in converging physical specifications. Equations that describe basic physical parameters were determined that allow for characterization and manipulation of the CTAB/hexanol reverse micelle surfactant system. The shape of the reverse micelles was revealed to be slightly ellipsoidal and varies slightly through the water loading range. The surfactant shell is shown to contain a higher fraction of hexanol upon addition of water. Analysis reveals that the size, shape, and surfactant/cosurfactant composition are directly tunable by variation of the water content and that these properties are consequences of the balance of forces present in the reverse micelles.
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- Brian Fuglestad
- Johnson Research Foundation and Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059, United States
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- Johnson Research Foundation and Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059, United States
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- Johnson Research Foundation and Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059, United States.
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- Johnson Research Foundation and Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059, United States.
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Honegger P, Heid E, Schmode S, Schröder C, Steinhauser O. Changes in protein hydration dynamics by encapsulation or crowding of ubiquitin: strong correlation between time-dependent Stokes shift and intermolecular nuclear Overhauser effect. RSC Adv 2019; 9:36982-36993. [PMID: 35539058 PMCID: PMC9075347 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra08008b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2019] [Accepted: 11/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The local changes in protein hydration dynamics upon encapsulation of the protein or macromolecular crowding are essential to understand protein function in cellular environments. We were able to obtain a spatially-resolved picture of the influence of confinement and crowding on the hydration dynamics of the protein ubiquitin by analyzing the time-dependent Stokes shift (TDSS), as well as the intermolecular Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE) at different sites of the protein by large-scale computer simulation of single and multiple proteins in water and confined in reverse micelles. Besides high advanced space resolved information on hydration dynamics we found a strong correlation of the change in NOE upon crowding or encapsulation and the change in the integral TDSS relaxation times in all investigated systems relative to the signals in a diluted protein solution. Changes in local protein hydration dynamics caused by encapsulation or crowding are reflected in the TDSS and the intermolecular NOE alike.![]()
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- Philipp Honegger
- University of Vienna
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry
- Austria
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- University of Vienna
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry
- Austria
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- University of Vienna
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry
- Austria
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- University of Vienna
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry
- Austria
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- University of Vienna
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry
- Austria
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Cheng K, Wu Q, Zhang Z, Pielak GJ, Liu M, Li C. Crowding and Confinement Can Oppositely Affect Protein Stability. Chemphyschem 2018; 19:3350-3355. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201800857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Kai Cheng
- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan 430071 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan 430071 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan 430071 P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290 USA
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan 430071 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan 430071 P. R. China
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- Ward H. Thompson
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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Murakami H. Persistent optical hole-burning spectroscopy of nano-confined dye molecules in liquid at room temperature: Spectral narrowing due to a glassy state and extraordinary relaxation in a nano-cage. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:144505. [PMID: 29655335 DOI: 10.1063/1.5008448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Persistent optical hole-burning spectroscopy has been conducted for a dye molecule within a very small (∼1 nm) reverse micelle at room temperature. The spectra show a spectral narrowing due to site-selective excitation. This definitely demonstrates that the surroundings of the dye molecule are in a glassy state regardless of a solution at room temperature. On the other hand, the hole-burning spectra exhibit large shifts from excitation frequencies, and their positions are almost independent of excitation frequencies. The hole-burning spectra have been theoretically calculated by taking account of a vibronic absorption band of the dye molecule under the assumption that the surroundings of the dye molecule are in a glassy state. The calculated results agree with the experimental ones that were obtained for the dye molecule in a polymer glass for comparison, where it has been found that the ratio of hole-burning efficiencies of vibronic- to electronic-band excitations is quite high. On the other hand, the theoretical results do not explain the large spectral shift from the excitation frequency and small spectral narrowing observed in the hole-burning spectra measured for the dye-containing reverse micelle. It is thought that the spectral shift and broadening occur within the measurement time owing to the relaxation process of the surroundings that are hot with the thermal energy deposited by the dye molecule optically excited. Furthermore, the relaxation should be temporary because the cooling of the inside of the reverse micelle takes place with the dissipation of the excess thermal energy to the outer oil solvent, and so the surroundings of the dye molecule return to the glassy state and do not attain the thermal equilibrium. These results suggest that a very small reverse micelle provides a unique reaction field in which the diffusional motion can be controlled by light in a glassy state.
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- Hiroshi Murakami
- QST Advanced Study Laboratory and Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Kizugawa City, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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Up to 40% of intracellular water is confined due to the dense packing of macromolecules, ions, and osmolytes. Despite the large body of work concerning the effect of additives on the biomolecular structure and stability, the role of crowding and heterogeneity in these interactions is not well understood. Here, infrared spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations are used to describe the mechanisms by which crowding modulates hydrogen bonding interactions between water and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). Specifically, we use formamide and dimethylformamide (DMF) as molecular crowders and show that the S═O hydrogen bond populations in aqueous mixtures are increased by both amides. These additives increase the amount of water within the DMSO first solvation shell through two mechanisms: (a) directly stabilizing water-DMSO hydrogen bonds; (b) increasing water exposure by destabilizing DMSO-DMSO self-interactions. Further, we quantified the hydrogen bond enthalpies between the different components: DMSO-water (61 kJ/mol) > DMSO-formamide (32 kJ/mol) > water-water (23 kJ/mol) ≫ formamide-water (4.7 kJ/mol). Spectra of carbonyl stretching vibrations show that DMSO induces the dehydration of amides as a result of strong DMSO-water interactions, which has been suggested as the main mechanism of protein destabilization.
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- Kwang-Im Oh
- Department of Chemistry , University of Texas at Austin , 105 E 24th St. Stop A5300 , Austin , TX 78712 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Texas at Austin , 105 E 24th St. Stop A5300 , Austin , TX 78712 , United States
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Chen Y, Liu Y, Yao Y, Zhang S, Gu Z. Reverse micelle-based water-soluble nanoparticles for simultaneous bioimaging and drug delivery. Org Biomol Chem 2018; 15:3232-3238. [PMID: 28327735 DOI: 10.1039/c7ob00169j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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With special confined water pools, reverse micelles (RMs) have shown potential for a wide range of applications. However, the inherent water-insolubility of RMs hinders their further application prospects, especially for applications related to biology. We recently reported the first successful transfer of RMs from organic media to an aqueous phase without changing the smart water pools by the hydrolysis of an arm-cleavable interfacial cross-linked reverse micelles. Herein, we employed another elaborate amphiphile 1 to construct new acrylamide-based cross-linked water-soluble nanoparticles (ACW-NPs) under much gentler conditions. The special property of the water pools of the ACW-NPs was confirmed by both the Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between 5-((2-aminoethyl)amino)naphthalene-1-sulfonic acid (1,5-EDANS) and benzoic acid, 4-[2-[4-(dimethylamino)phenyl]diazenyl] (DABCYL) and satisfactory colloidal stability in 10% fetal bovine serum. Importantly, featured by the gentle synthetic strategy, confined water pool, and carboxylic acid-functionalized surface, the new ACW-NPs are well suitable for biological applications. As an example, the fluorescent reagent 8-hydroxy-1,3,6-pyrenetrisulfonic acid trisodium salt (HPTS) was encapsulated in the core and simultaneously, the anticancer drug gemcitabine (Gem) was covalently conjugated onto the surface exterior. As expected, the resulting multifunctional ACW-NPs@HPTS@Gem exhibits a high imaging effect and anticancer activity for non-small lung cancer cells.
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- Ying Chen
- National Engineering Research Centre for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, 29 Wangjiang Road, Chengdu 610064, China.
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Honegger P, Schmollngruber M, Steinhauser O. Micellar confinement disrupts collective structure and accelerates collective dynamics of encapsulated water. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:11454-11469. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp01508b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Detailed numerical study of the dielectric spectrum of zwitterionic reverse micelles is combined with interpretation using a new semi-quantitative analytical model.
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- Philipp Honegger
- University of Vienna
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry
- A-1090 Vienna
- Austria
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- University of Vienna
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry
- A-1090 Vienna
- Austria
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- University of Vienna
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry
- A-1090 Vienna
- Austria
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Honegger P, Steinhauser O. Revival of collective water structure and dynamics in reverse micelles brought about by protein encapsulation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:22932-22945. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp03422b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A novel mechanism of depolarization in reverse micelles with zwitterionic surfactants and containing polar species but lacking ions is reported.
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- Philipp Honegger
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry
- University of Vienna
- A-1090 Vienna
- Austria
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- Faculty of Chemistry
- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry
- University of Vienna
- A-1090 Vienna
- Austria
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Hayes DG, Ye R, Dunlap RN, Cuneo MJ, Pingali SV, O'Neill HM, Urban VS. Protein extraction into the bicontinuous microemulsion phase of a Water/SDS/pentanol/dodecane winsor-III system: Effect on nanostructure and protein conformation. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2017; 160:144-153. [PMID: 28922633 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2017.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2017] [Revised: 08/22/2017] [Accepted: 09/04/2017] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Bicontinuous microemulsions (BμEs), consisting of water and oil nanodomains separated by surfactant monolayers of near-zero curvature, are potentially valuable systems for purification and delivery of biomolecules, for hosting multiphasic biochemical reactions, and as templating media for preparing nanomaterials. We formed Winsor-III systems by mixing aqueous protein and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) solutions with dodecane and 1-pentanol (cosurfactant) to efficiently extract proteins into the middle (BμE) phase. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) and cytochrome c partitioned to the BμE phase at 64% and 81% efficiency, respectively, producing highly concentrated protein solutions (32 and 44gL-1, respectively), through release of water and oil from the BμEs. Circular dichroism spectroscopic analysis demonstrated that BSA underwent minor secondary structural changes upon incorporation into BμEs, while the secondary structure of cytochrome c and pepsin underwent major changes. Small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) results show that proteins promoted an increase of the interfacial fluidity and surface area per volume for the BμE surfactant monolayers, and that each protein uniquely altered self-assembly in the Winsor-III systems. Cytochrome c partitioned via electrostatic attractions between SDS and the protein's positively-charged groups, residing near the surfactant head groups of BμE monolayers, where it decreased surfactant packing efficiency. BSA partitioned through formation of SDS-BSA complexes via hydrophobic and electrostatic attractive interactions. As the BSA-SDS ratio increased, complexes' partitioning favored BμEs over the oil excess phase due to the increased hydrophilicity of the complexes. This study demonstrates the potential utility of BμEs to purify proteins and prepare nanostructured fluids possessing high protein concentration.
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- Douglas G Hayes
- Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-4531 USA.
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- Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-4531 USA
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- Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-4531 USA; Biology & Soft Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6475, USA
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- Biology & Soft Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6475, USA
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- Biology & Soft Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6475, USA
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- Biology & Soft Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6475, USA
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- Biology & Soft Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6475, USA
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Xu G, Cheng K, Wu Q, Liu M, Li C. Confinement Alters the Structure and Function of Calmodulin. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201609639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Guohua Xu
- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems; State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics; National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences; Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wuhan 430071 P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems; State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics; National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences; Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wuhan 430071 P.R. China
- Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100029 P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems; State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics; National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences; Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wuhan 430071 P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems; State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics; National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences; Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wuhan 430071 P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems; State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics; National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences; Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wuhan 430071 P.R. China
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Kundu K, Bardhan S, Ghosh S, Saha SK, Paul BK. Formation of Oil/Water Interface by Mixed Surface Active Ionic Liquid-Ethoxylated Alkyl Ether: Energetics, Microstructures, Solvation Dynamics, and Antimicrobial Activity. ChemistrySelect 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201601449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Kaushik Kundu
- Surface and Colloid Science Laboratory, Geological Studies Unit; Indian Statistical Institute; 203, B.T. Road Kolkata- 700 108 India
- Department Inorganic and Physical Chemistry; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore- 560012 India
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- Department of Chemistry; University of North Bengal; Darjeeling- 734 013 India
- Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences; Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Chennai- 600036 India
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- Center for Surface Science, Department of Chemistry; Jadavpur University; Kolkata- 700032 India
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- Department of Chemistry; University of North Bengal; Darjeeling- 734 013 India
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- Surface and Colloid Science Laboratory, Geological Studies Unit; Indian Statistical Institute; 203, B.T. Road Kolkata- 700 108 India
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Xu G, Cheng K, Wu Q, Liu M, Li C. Confinement Alters the Structure and Function of Calmodulin. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016; 56:530-534. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201609639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2016] [Revised: 11/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Guohua Xu
- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems; State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics; National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences; Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wuhan 430071 P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems; State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics; National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences; Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wuhan 430071 P.R. China
- Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100029 P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems; State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics; National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences; Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wuhan 430071 P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems; State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics; National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences; Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wuhan 430071 P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems; State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics; National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences; Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wuhan 430071 P.R. China
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Schmollngruber M, Braun D, Steinhauser O. A computational component analysis of dielectric relaxation and THz spectra of water/AOT reverse micelles with different water loading. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:214702. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4971165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Schmollngruber M, Braun D, Oser D, Steinhauser O. Dielectric depolarisation and concerted collective dynamics in AOT reverse micelles with and without ubiquitin. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:3606-17. [PMID: 26751837 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp07112g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In this computational study we present molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of reverse micelles, i.e. nano-scale water pools encapsulated by sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate (AOT) and dissolved in isooctane. Although consisting of highly polar components, such micro-emulsions exhibit surprisingly low dielectric permittivity, both static and frequency-dependent. This finding is well supported by experimental dielectric measurements. Furthermore, the computational dielectric spectra of reverse micelles with and without the polar protein ubiquitin are almost identical. A detailed component analysis of our simulated systems reveals the underlying mechanism of the observed dielectric depolarisation. While each component by itself would make a remarkable contribution to the static dielectric permittivity, mutual compensation leads to the observed marginal net result. This compensatory behavior is maintained for all but the highest frequencies. Dielectric model theory adapted to the peculiarities of reverse micelles provides an explanation: embedding a system in a cavity engulfed by a low dielectric medium automatically leads to depolarization. In this sense experiment, simulation and theory are in accordance.
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- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria.
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- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria.
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- Department of Computational Biological Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria.
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Phukon A, Ray S, Sahu K. Effect of Cosurfactants on the Interfacial Hydration of CTAB Quaternary Reverse Micelle Probed Using Excited State Proton Transfer. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:10659-10667. [PMID: 27666561 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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It has been proven previously that the negatively charged photoacid 8-hydroxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonic acid trisodium salt (HPTS) resides at the interface of the cationic reverse micelle (RM) cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)/octanol/water/cyclohexane and is a potential reporter of hydration through the excited state proton transfer (ESPT) process. However, the ESPT dynamics monitored by the pump-probe study was limited to the ultrafast timescale and hence did not report any discernible ESPT signature. Herein, we reinvestigate the ESPT behavior using fluorescence spectroscopy in the nanosecond timescale and at different values of w0 (=[water]/[surfactant]). We clearly observed distinct w0-dependent ESPT signatures analogous to conventional ternary cationic RMs implying considerable interfacial hydration. The results agree with a recent molecular simulation study, where significant penetration of water molecules into the interface was predicted for the CTAB quaternary RM. Moreover, we also found that the ESPT dynamics and the fluorescence anisotropy decay of HPTS depend differentially on the octanol/CTAB ratio (p0). The ESPT process was found to be disfavored, whereas the anisotropy decay accelerates upon the increase in p0 values. Our analysis indicates that with the increase in the octanol concentration, dehydrated regions enrich gradually at the interface. However, the increase in octanol concentration may reduce the effective electrostatic potential experienced by the probe and thus may result in faster rotational relaxation.
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- Aparajita Phukon
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati , Guwahati 781039, Assam, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati , Guwahati 781039, Assam, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati , Guwahati 781039, Assam, India
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Lukanov B, Firoozabadi A. Molecular Thermodynamic Modeling of Reverse Micelles and Water-in-Oil Microemulsions. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:3100-3109. [PMID: 26919199 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Surfactant aggregation plays an important role in a variety of chemical and biological nanoscale processes. On a larger scale, using small amounts of amphiphiles compared to large volumes of bulk-phase modifiers can improve the efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of many chemical and industrial processes. To model ternary mixtures of polar, nonpolar, and amphiphilic molecules, we develop a molecular thermodynamic theory for polydisperse water-in-oil (W/O) droplet-type microemulsions and reverse micelles based on global minimization of the Gibbs free energy of the system. The incorporation of size polydispersity into the theoretical formulation has a significant effect on the Gibbs free energy landscape and allows us to accurately predict micelle size distributions and micelle size variation with composition. Results are presented for two sample ionic surfactant/water/oil systems and compared with experimental data. By predicting the structural and compositional characteristics of w/o microemulsions, the molecular thermodynamic approach provides an important bridge between the modeling of ternary systems at the molecular and the macroscopic level.
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- Boris Lukanov
- Reservoir Engineering Research Institute , 595 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94301, United States
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- Reservoir Engineering Research Institute , 595 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94301, United States
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States
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Senske M, Smith AE, Pielak GJ. Protein Stability in Reverse Micelles. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016; 55:3586-9. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201508981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2015] [Revised: 12/14/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Michael Senske
- Department of Physical Chemistry II; Ruhr-Universität Bochum; 44780 Bochum Germany
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- Department of Chemistry; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill NC 27599-3290 USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill NC 27599-3290 USA
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- Michael Senske
- Department of Physical Chemistry II Ruhr-Universität Bochum 44780 Bochum Germany
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- Department of Chemistry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC 27599-3290 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC 27599-3290 USA
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Khan MF, Singh MK, Sen S. Measuring Size, Size Distribution, and Polydispersity of Water-in-Oil Microemulsion Droplets using Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy: Comparison to Dynamic Light Scattering. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:1008-20. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b09920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Mohammad Firoz Khan
- Spectroscopy Laboratory,
School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
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- Spectroscopy Laboratory,
School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
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- Spectroscopy Laboratory,
School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
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Wang KH, Chang CW. The spectral relaxation dynamics and the molecular crowding effect of silver nanoclusters synthesized in the polymer scaffold. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:23140-6. [PMID: 26279125 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp03175c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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We have performed a comprehensive study on the spectral relaxation dynamics of silver nanoclusters (AgNCs) synthesized in poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA). In different polymer conformations and solvents, the spectral relaxation dynamics of PMAA-AgNCs can be globally fitted by a bi-exponential decay, the short component is about 0.2-0.3 ns, whereas the long component is in the range 1-3 ns. The spectral relaxation is associated with the energy transfer dynamics and the excitation of multiple emissive AgNCs. In this study, we have demonstrated the feasibility of using AgNCs as a fluorescent probe for fluorescence anisotropy studies. Meanwhile, the molecular crowding effects of the PMAA-AgNCs were addressed using the Triton X-100 reverse micelles. The results indicate that the fluorescence quantum yield of the AgNCs will be significantly increased under crowded conditions, which is beneficial for their usage in intracellular imaging studies.
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- Kai-Hung Wang
- Department of Chemistry, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua 50058, Taiwan.
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Hu L, Yu Z, Hu Z, Song Y, Zhang F, Zhu H, Jiao S. Facile synthesis of amorphous Ni(OH)2 for high-performance supercapacitors via electrochemical assembly in a reverse micelle. Electrochim Acta 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.05.170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Spiga E, Abriata LA, Piazza F, Dal Peraro M. Dissecting the effects of concentrated carbohydrate solutions on protein diffusion, hydration, and internal dynamics. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:5310-21. [PMID: 24773474 DOI: 10.1021/jp4126705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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We present herein a thorough description of the effects of high glucose concentrations on the diffusion, hydration and internal dynamics of ubiquitin, as predicted from extensive molecular dynamics simulations on several systems described at fully atomistic level. We observe that the protein acts as a seed that speeds up the natural propensity of glucose to cluster at high concentration; the sugar molecules thus aggregate around the protein trapping it inside a dynamic cage. This process extensively dehydrates the protein surface, restricts the motions of the remaining water molecules, and drags the large-scale, collective motions of protein atoms slowing down the rate of exploration of the conformational space despite only a slight dampening of fast, local dynamics. We discuss how these effects could be relevant to the function of sugars as preservation agents in biological materials, and how crowding by small sticky molecules could modulate proteins across different reaction coordinates inside the cellular cytosol.
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- Enrico Spiga
- Laboratory for Biomolecular Modeling, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Islam M, Tirukoti ND, Nandi S, Hotha S. Hypervalent Iodine Mediated Synthesis of C-2 Deoxy Glycosides and Amino Acid Glycoconjugates. J Org Chem 2014; 79:4470-6. [DOI: 10.1021/jo500465m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Maidul Islam
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education
and Research, Pune 411 008, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education
and Research, Pune 411 008, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education
and Research, Pune 411 008, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education
and Research, Pune 411 008, India
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Nucci NV, Valentine KG, Wand AJ. High-resolution NMR spectroscopy of encapsulated proteins dissolved in low-viscosity fluids. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2014; 241:137-47. [PMID: 24656086 PMCID: PMC4127067 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2013.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2013] [Accepted: 10/11/2013] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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High-resolution multi-dimensional solution NMR is unique as a biophysical and biochemical tool in its ability to examine both the structure and dynamics of macromolecules at atomic resolution. Conventional solution NMR approaches, however, are largely limited to examinations of relatively small (<25kDa) molecules, mostly due to the spectroscopic consequences of slow rotational diffusion. Encapsulation of macromolecules within the protective nanoscale aqueous interior of reverse micelles dissolved in low viscosity fluids has been developed as a means through which the 'slow tumbling problem' can be overcome. This approach has been successfully applied to diverse proteins and nucleic acids ranging up to 100kDa, considerably widening the range of biological macromolecules to which conventional solution NMR methodologies may be applied. Recent advances in methodology have significantly broadened the utility of this approach in structural biology and molecular biophysics.
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- Nathaniel V Nucci
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Johnson Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Johnson Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Johnson Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059, USA.
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Tateishi-Karimata H, Isono N, Sugimoto N. New insights into transcription fidelity: thermal stability of non-canonical structures in template DNA regulates transcriptional arrest, pause, and slippage. PLoS One 2014; 9:e90580. [PMID: 24594642 PMCID: PMC3940900 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2013] [Accepted: 02/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The thermal stability and topology of non-canonical structures of G-quadruplexes and hairpins in template DNA were investigated, and the effect of non-canonical structures on transcription fidelity was evaluated quantitatively. We designed ten template DNAs: A linear sequence that does not have significant higher-order structure, three sequences that form hairpin structures, and six sequences that form G-quadruplex structures with different stabilities. Templates with non-canonical structures induced the production of an arrested, a slipped, and a full-length transcript, whereas the linear sequence produced only a full-length transcript. The efficiency of production for run-off transcripts (full-length and slipped transcripts) from templates that formed the non-canonical structures was lower than that from the linear. G-quadruplex structures were more effective inhibitors of full-length product formation than were hairpin structure even when the stability of the G-quadruplex in an aqueous solution was the same as that of the hairpin. We considered that intra-polymerase conditions may differentially affect the stability of non-canonical structures. The values of transcription efficiencies of run-off or arrest transcripts were correlated with stabilities of non-canonical structures in the intra-polymerase condition mimicked by 20 wt% polyethylene glycol (PEG). Transcriptional arrest was induced when the stability of the G-quadruplex structure (−ΔGo37) in the presence of 20 wt% PEG was more than 8.2 kcal mol−1. Thus, values of stability in the presence of 20 wt% PEG are an important indicator of transcription perturbation. Our results further our understanding of the impact of template structure on the transcription process and may guide logical design of transcription-regulating drugs.
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- Hisae Tateishi-Karimata
- Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER), Konan University, Kobe, Japan
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- Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER), Konan University, Kobe, Japan
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- Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER), Konan University, Kobe, Japan
- Faculty of Frontiers of Innovative Research in Science and Technology (FIRST), Konan University, Kobe, Japan
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Marques BS, Nucci NV, Dodevski I, Wang KWC, Athanasoula EA, Jorge C, Wand AJ. Measurement and control of pH in the aqueous interior of reverse micelles. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:2020-31. [PMID: 24506449 PMCID: PMC3983379 DOI: 10.1021/jp4103349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The
encapsulation of proteins and nucleic acids within the nanoscale
water core of reverse micelles has been used for over 3 decades as
a vehicle for a wide range of investigations including enzymology,
the physical chemistry of confined spaces, protein and nucleic acid
structural biology, and drug development and delivery. Unfortunately,
the static and dynamical aspects of the distribution of water in solutions
of reverse micelles complicate the measurement and interpretation
of fundamental parameters such as pH. This is a severe disadvantage
in the context of (bio)chemical reactions and protein structure and
function, which are generally highly sensitive to pH. There is a need
to more fully characterize and control the effective pH of the reverse
micelle water core. The buffering effect of titratable head groups
of the reverse micelle surfactants is found to often be the dominant
variable defining the pH of the water core. Methods for measuring
the pH of the reverse micelle aqueous interior using one-dimensional 1H and two-dimensional heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy are described.
Strategies for setting the effective pH of the reverse micelle water
core are demonstrated. The exquisite sensitivity of encapsulated proteins
to the surfactant, water content, and pH of the reverse micelle is
also addressed. These results highlight the importance of assessing
the structural fidelity of the encapsulated protein using multidimensional
NMR before embarking upon a detailed structural and biophysical characterization.
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- Bryan S Marques
- Graduate Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Johnson Research Foundation and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6059, United States
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Ho MC, Chang CW. Cationic and anionic reverse micelles as the molecular crowding container for G-quadruplex structure. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra02141j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The d[AG3(T2AG3)3] sequence shows different molecular crowding effects in AOT and CTAB reverse micelles (RMs). Our result indicates that the CTAB RMs are ideal molecular crowding containers for G-quadruplex structure.
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- Meng-Chieh Ho
- Department of Chemistry
- National Changhua University of Education
- Changhua 50058, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry
- National Changhua University of Education
- Changhua 50058, Taiwan
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Sugimoto N. Noncanonical structures and their thermodynamics of DNA and RNA under molecular crowding: beyond the Watson-Crick double helix. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 307:205-73. [PMID: 24380597 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-800046-5.00008-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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How does molecular crowding affect the stability of nucleic acid structures inside cells? Water is the major solvent component in living cells, and the properties of water in the highly crowded media inside cells differ from that in buffered solution. As it is difficult to measure the thermodynamic behavior of nucleic acids in cells directly and quantitatively, we recently developed a cell-mimicking system using cosolutes as crowding reagents. The influences of molecular crowding on the structures and thermodynamics of various nucleic acid sequences have been reported. In this chapter, we discuss how the structures and thermodynamic properties of nucleic acids differ under various conditions such as highly crowded environments, compartment environments, and in the presence of ionic liquids, and the major determinants of the crowding effects on nucleic acids are discussed. The effects of molecular crowding on the activities of ribozymes and riboswitches on noncanonical structures of DNA- and RNA-like quadruplexes that play important roles in transcription and translation are also described.
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- Naoki Sugimoto
- Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER) and Faculty of Frontiers of Innovative Research in Science and Technology (FIRST), Konan University, Kobe, Japan.
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Hu L, Hu Z, Liu C, Yu Z, Cao X, Han Y, Jiao S. Electrochemical assembly of ZnO architectures via deformation and coalescence of soft colloidal templates in reverse microemulsion. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra02305f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Pawar MG, Srivatsan SG. Environment-responsive fluorescent nucleoside analogue probe for studying oligonucleotide dynamics in a model cell-like compartment. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:14273-82. [PMID: 24161106 DOI: 10.1021/jp4071168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The majority of fluorescent nucleoside analogue probes that have been used in the in vitro study of nucleic acids are not suitable for cell-based biophysical assays because they exhibit excitation maxima in the UV region and low quantum yields within oligonucleotides. Therefore, we propose that the photophysical characterization of oligonucleotides labeled with a fluorescent nucleoside analogue in reverse micelles (RM), which are good biological membrane models and UV-transparent, could provide an alternative approach to studying the properties of nucleic acids in a cell-like confined environment. In this context, we describe the photophysical properties of an environment-sensitive fluorescent uridine analogue (1), based on the 5-(benzo[b]thiophen-2-yl)pyrimidine core, in micelles and RM. The emissive nucleoside, which is polarity- and viscosity-sensitive, reports the environment of the surfactant assemblies via changes in its fluorescence properties. The nucleoside analogue, incorporated into an RNA oligonucleotide and hybridized to its complementary DNA and RNA oligonucleotides, exhibits a significantly higher fluorescence intensity, lifetime, and anisotropy in RM than in aqueous buffer, which is consistent with the environment of RM. Collectively, our results demonstrate that nucleoside 1 could be utilized as a fluorescent label to study the function of nucleic acids in a model cellular milieu.
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- Maroti G Pawar
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune , Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune 411008, India
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Abriata LA, Spiga E, Dal Peraro M. All-atom simulations of crowding effects on ubiquitin dynamics. Phys Biol 2013; 10:045006. [DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/10/4/045006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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A simple quantitative model of macromolecular crowding effects on protein folding: Application to the murine prion protein(121–231). Chem Phys Lett 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2013.04.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Mandal S, Ghosh S, Banerjee C, Kuchlyan J, Banik D, Sarkar N. A Novel Ionic Liquid-in-Oil Microemulsion Composed of Biologically Acceptable Components: An Excitation Wavelength Dependent Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Study. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:3221-31. [DOI: 10.1021/jp4009515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Sarthak Mandal
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, WB, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, WB, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, WB, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, WB, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, WB, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, WB, India
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