A long-lived amphiphilic fluorescent probe studied in POPC air–water monolayer and solution bilayer systems
作者:Gabriela Gramlich、Jiayun Zhang、Mathias Winterhalter、Werner M Nau
DOI:10.1016/s0009-3084(01)00133-5
日期:2001.11
partitioning into a lipid membrane model was quantified at the air-waterinterface by spreading 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) monolayers. Measurements with different molar fractions of Fluorazophore-L revealed a small but significant reduction of the mean area in the mixed monolayer. The excess free energy of mixing (-0.5+/-0.1 kT) indicated a weakly attractive interaction slightly
Intramolecular triplet energy transfer in ester-linked bichromophoric azoalkanes and naphthalenes
作者:Paul S. Engel、Douglas W. Horsey、John N. Scholz、Takashi Karatsu、Akihide Kitamura
DOI:10.1021/j100198a011
日期:1992.9
The photophysics of a series of compounds has been studied wherein a triplet sensitizer such as benzophenone (BB) or thioxanthone (TH) is linked via an ester group to an azoalkane such as 3,3,5,5-tetramethyl-1-pyrazoline (PY) or 2,3-diazabicyclo-[2.2.2]oct-2-ene (DBO). The observation of phosphorescence from the sensitizer moiety in a frozen glass and triplet lifetime measurements in solution show that intramolecular triplet energy transfer (ET) can be remarkably slow. Model compounds in which naphthalene replaces the azo group behave normally, exhibiting complete and rapid intramolecular ET. Despite the small size of the azo group, its critical radius, R0, for intermolecular ET in a frozen glass is comparable to that of naphthalene. When the donor and azo chromophores are closely linked by alkyl groups, ET is very rapid. No phosphorescence or T-T absorption of the azo group could be detected, but quenching experiments show that the triplet lifetime of cyclic azoalkanes is much shorter than their singlet lifetime.
Kinetics of End-to-End Collision in Short Single-Stranded Nucleic Acids
作者:Xiaojuan Wang、Werner M. Nau
DOI:10.1021/ja038263r
日期:2004.1.28
A novel fluorescence-based method, which entails contact quenching of the long-lived fluorescent state of 2,3-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]-oct-2-ene (DBO), was employed to measure the kinetics of end-to-end collision in short single-stranded oligodeoxyribonucleotides of the type 5'-DBO-(X)(n)-dG with X = dA, dC, dT, or dU and n = 2 or 4. The fluorophore was covalently attached to the 5' end and dG was introduced as an efficient intrinsic quencher at the 3' terminus. The end-to-end collision rates, which can be directly related to the efficiency of intramolecular fluorescence quenching, ranged from 0.1 to 9.0 x 10(6) s(-1). They were strongly dependent on the strand length, the base sequence, as well as the temperature. Oligonucleotides containing dA in the backbone displayed much slower collision rates and significantly higher positive activation energies than strands composed of pyrimidine bases, suggesting a higher intrinsic rigidity of oligoadenylate. Comparison of the measured collision rates in short single-stranded oligodeoxy-ribonucleotides with the previously reported kinetics of hairpin formation indicates that the intramolecular collision is significantly faster than the nucleation step of hairpin closing. This is consistent with the configurational diffusion model suggested by Ansari et al.
A Joint Structural, Kinetic, and Thermodynamic Investigation of Substituent Effects on Host−Guest Complexation of Bicyclic Azoalkanes by β-Cyclodextrin
作者:Xiangyang Zhang、Gabriela Gramlich、Xiaojuan Wang、Werner M. Nau
DOI:10.1021/ja011866n
日期:2002.1.1
Derivatives of the azoalkane 2,3-diazabicyclo[2,2,2]oct-2-ene (1a) with bridgehead 1,4-dialkyl (1b), 1,4-dichloro (1c), 1-hydroxymethyl (1d), 1-aminomethyl (1e), and 1-ammoniummethyl (1f) substituents form host-guest inclusion complexes with beta-cyclodextrin. They were employed as probes to assess substituent effects on the kinetics and thermodynamics of this complexation by using time-resolved and steady-state fluorimetry, UV spectrophotometry, induced circular dichroism (ICD) measurements, and H-1 NMR spectroscopy. The kinetic analysis based on quenching of the long-lived fluorescence of the azoalkanes by addition of host provided excited-state association rate constants between 2.6 x 10(8) and 7.0 x 10(8) M-1 s(-1). The binding constants for 1a (1100 M-1), 1b (900 M-1), 1c (1900 M-1), 1d (180 M-1), 1e (250 M-1), and 1f (ca. 20 M-1) were obtained by UV, NMR, and ICD titrations. A positive ICD signal of the azo absorption around 370 nm was observed for the beta-cyclodextrin complexes of 1a, 1d, and 1f with the intensity order 1a much greater than 1d approximate to 1f, and a negative signal was measured for those of 1b, 1c, and 1e with the intensity order 1c < 1b approximate to 1e. The ICD was employed for the assignment of the solution structures of the complexes, in particular the relative orientation of the guest in the host (co-conformation).