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Thiol-Activatable Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion with Maleimide-Perylene as the Caged Triplet Acceptor/Emitter
Mahmood, Zafar,Zhao, Jianzhang
, p. 587 - 594 (2016)
Efficient thiol-activated triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) upconversion system was devised with maleimide-caged perylene (Py-M) as the thiol-activatable triplet acceptor/emitter and with diiodoBodipy as the triplet photosensitizer. The photophysical processes were studied with steady-state UV-vis absorption spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, electrochemical properties, and nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. The triplet acceptor/emitter Py-M shows week fluorescence (φF = 0.8%), and no upconversion (φUC = 0%) was observed. The quenching of fluorescence of Py-M is due to photoinduced electron-transfer (PET) process from perylene to maleimide-caging unit, which quenches the singlet excited state of perylene. The fluorescence of Py-M was enhanced by 200-fold (φF = 97%) upon addition of thiols such as 2-mercaptoethanol, and the φUC was increased to 5.9%. The unique feature of this thiol-activated TTA upconversion is that the activation is based on addition reaction of the thiols with the caged acceptor/emitter, and no side products were formed. The previously reported cleavage approach gives side products which are detrimental to the TTA upconversion. With nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, we found that the triplet excited state of Py-M was not quenched by any PET process, which is different from singlet excited state (fluorescence) of Py-M. The results are useful for study of the triplet excited states of organic chromophores and for activatable TTA upconversion.
Pyrenylmethyldeoxyadenosine: A 3′-cap for universal DNA hybridization probes
Printz, Michael,Richert, Clemens
experimental part, p. 3390 - 3402 (2010/01/19)
A ligand that stabilizes a three-dimensional structure can be expected to have a positive effect on the specificity with which this structure is formed. Here we report on a ligand covalently linked to an oligonucleotide that increases duplex stability, but decreases base-pairing selectivity at the terminus. The ligand consists of a dangling 2′-deoxyadenosine residue with a pyrenylmethyl substituent at the N6-position, that is, a deoxynucleoside with a covalently linked polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH). In the presence of the pyrene-bearing nucleosides the UV melting point (ΔTm) of duplexes increases by up to 29.1°C. The modified residue lowers the base-pairing fidelity at the terminal and penultimate position of duplexes with a depression in ΔΔTm observable in 20 out of 24 sequence contexts tested. The effect can be rationalized based on a modeled three-dimensional structure. The results are significant for the understanding of base-pairing fidelity in DNA duplexes as modulated by the presence of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon. The fidelity-decreasing effect may be useful for universal hybridization probes that bind to a broader range of sequences than conventional oligonucleotides.
