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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2011

Differentiating between fluorescence-quenching metal ions with polyfluorophore sensors built on a DNA backbone.

Samuel S Tan, Su Jeong Kim, Eric T Kool

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 147 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samuel S TanDepartment of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5080, USA.
Su Jeong Kim
Eric T Kool
Stanford University · US

Funding

POLYFLUOROPHORES ASSEMBLED ON A DNA SCAFFOLDR01GM067201 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI KOOL, ERIC T. · 2003 to 2011
$2.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM067201NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM067201
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A common problem in detecting metal ions with fluorescentchemosensors is the emission-suppressing effects of fluorescence-quenching metal ions. This quenching tendency makes it difficult to design sensors with turn-on signal, and differentiate between several metal ions that may yield a strong quenching response. To address these challenges, we investigate a new sensor design strategy, incorporating fluorophores and metal ligands as DNA base replacements in DNA-like oligomers, for generating a broader range of responses for quenching metal ions. The modular molecular design enabled rapid synthesis and discovery of sensors from libraries on PEG-polystyrene beads. Using this approach, water-soluble sensors 1-5 were identified as strong responders to a set of eight typically quenching metal ions (Co(2+), Ni(2+), Cu(2+), Hg(2+), Pb(2+), Ag(+), Cr(3+), and Fe(3+)). They were synthesized and characterized for sensing responses in solution. Cross-screening with the full set of metal ions showed that they have a wide variety of responses, including emission enhancements and red- and blue-shifts. The diversity of sensor responses allows as few as two sensors (1 and 2) to be used together to successfully differentiate these eight metals. As a test, a set of unknown metal ion solutions in blind studies were also successfully identified based on the response pattern of the sensors. The modular nature of the sensor design strategy suggests a broadly applicable approach to finding sensors for differentiating many different cations by pattern-based recognition, simply by varying the sequence and composition of ligands and fluorophores on a DNA synthesizer.

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FluorescenceDNAFluorescent DyesIonsMetals, HeavyMolecular ConformationPolyethylene GlycolsPolystyrenesDNAFluorescent DyesIonsMetals, Heavypolyethylene glycol-polystyrenePolyethylene GlycolsPolystyrenes

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PMID21294558
PMCPMC3045473
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