Proximity-Induced H-Aggregation of Cyanine Dyes on DNA-Duplexes

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• 作者：Francesca Nicoli ; Matthias K. Roos ; Elisa A. Hemmig ; Marco Di Antonio ; Regina de Vivie-Riedle ; Tim Liedl
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry A
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 22, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：120
• 期：50
• 页码：9941-9947
• 全文大小：404K
• ISSN：1520-5215

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A wide variety of organic dyes form, under certain conditions, clusters know as J- and H-aggregates. Cyanine dyes are such a class of molecules where the spatial proximity of several dyes leads to overlapping electron orbitals and thus to the creation of a new energy landscape compared to that of the individual units. In this work, we create artificial H-aggregates of exactly two Cyanine 3 (Cy3) dyes by covalently linking them to a DNA molecule with controlled subnanometer distances. The absorption spectra of these coupled systems exhibit a blue-shifted peak, whose intensity varies depending on the distance between the dyes and the rigidity of the DNA template. Simulated vibrational resolved spectra, based on molecular orbital theory, excellently reproduce the experimentally observed features. Circular dichroism spectroscopy additionally reveals distinct signals, which indicates a chiral arrangement of the dye molecules. Molecular dynamic simulations of a Cy3–Cy3 construct including a 14-base pair DNA sequence verified chiral stacking of the dye molecules.