TY - JOUR
T1 - Complementary Oligonucleotide Conjugated Multicolor Carbon Dots for Intracellular Recognition of Biological Events
AU - Srivastava, Indrajit
AU - Misra, Santosh K.
AU - Bangru, Sushant
AU - Boateng, Kingsley A.
AU - Soares, Julio A.N.T.
AU - Schwartz-Duval, Aaron S.
AU - Kalsotra, Auinash
AU - Pan, Dipanjan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2020 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2020/4/8
Y1 - 2020/4/8
N2 - By using complementary DNA sequences as surface ligands, we selectively allow two individual diffusing "dual-color" carbon dots to interact in situ and in vitro. Spontaneous nanoscale oxidation of surface-abundant nitroso-/nitro-functionalities leads to two distinctly colored carbon dots (CD) which are isolated by polarity driven chromatographic separation. Green- and red-emitting carbon dots (gCD and rCD) were decorated by complementary single-stranded DNAs which produce a marked increase in the fluorescence emission of the respective carbon dots. Mutual colloidal interactions are achieved through hybridization of complementary DNA base pairs attached to the respective particles, resulting in quenching of their photoluminescence. The observed post-hybridization quenching is presumably due to a combined effect from an aggregation of CDs post duplex DNA formation and close proximity of multicolored CDs, having overlapped spectral regions leading to a nonradiative energy transfer process possibly released as heat. This strategy may contribute to the rational design of mutually interacting carbon dots for a better control over the resulting assembly structure for studying different biological phenomenon including molecular cytogenetics. One of the newly synthesized CDs was successfully used to image intracellular location of GAPDH mRNA using an event of change in fluorescence intensity (FI) of CDs. This selectivity was introduced by conjugating an oligonucleotide harboring complementary sequence to GAPDH mRNA. FI of this conjugated carbon dot, rCD-GAPDH, was also found to decrease in the presence of Ca2+, varied in relation to H+ concentrations, and could serve as a tool to quantify the intracellular concentrations of Ca2+ and pH value (H+) which can give important information about cell survival. Therefore, CD-oligonucleotide conjugates could serve as efficient probes for cellular events and interventions.
AB - By using complementary DNA sequences as surface ligands, we selectively allow two individual diffusing "dual-color" carbon dots to interact in situ and in vitro. Spontaneous nanoscale oxidation of surface-abundant nitroso-/nitro-functionalities leads to two distinctly colored carbon dots (CD) which are isolated by polarity driven chromatographic separation. Green- and red-emitting carbon dots (gCD and rCD) were decorated by complementary single-stranded DNAs which produce a marked increase in the fluorescence emission of the respective carbon dots. Mutual colloidal interactions are achieved through hybridization of complementary DNA base pairs attached to the respective particles, resulting in quenching of their photoluminescence. The observed post-hybridization quenching is presumably due to a combined effect from an aggregation of CDs post duplex DNA formation and close proximity of multicolored CDs, having overlapped spectral regions leading to a nonradiative energy transfer process possibly released as heat. This strategy may contribute to the rational design of mutually interacting carbon dots for a better control over the resulting assembly structure for studying different biological phenomenon including molecular cytogenetics. One of the newly synthesized CDs was successfully used to image intracellular location of GAPDH mRNA using an event of change in fluorescence intensity (FI) of CDs. This selectivity was introduced by conjugating an oligonucleotide harboring complementary sequence to GAPDH mRNA. FI of this conjugated carbon dot, rCD-GAPDH, was also found to decrease in the presence of Ca2+, varied in relation to H+ concentrations, and could serve as a tool to quantify the intracellular concentrations of Ca2+ and pH value (H+) which can give important information about cell survival. Therefore, CD-oligonucleotide conjugates could serve as efficient probes for cellular events and interventions.
KW - biosensing
KW - carbon dots
KW - in situ hybridization
KW - intracellular recognitions
KW - luminescence quenching
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U2 - 10.1021/acsami.0c02463
DO - 10.1021/acsami.0c02463
M3 - Article
C2 - 32182420
AN - SCOPUS:85083074593
SN - 1944-8244
VL - 12
SP - 16137
EP - 16149
JO - ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
JF - ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
IS - 14
ER -