In-situ FTIR study on adsorption and oxidation of native and thermally denatured calf thymus DNA at glassy carbon electrodes.
In-situ Fourier transform infra-red (FTIR) spectra of native and thermally denatured calf thymus DNA (CT DNA) adsorbed and/or oxidized at a glassy carbon (GC) electrode surface are reported. The adsorption of native DNA occurs throughout the potential range (- 0.2 approximately 1.3 V) studied, and the adsorbing state of DNA at electrode surface is changed from through the C=O band of bases and pyrimidine rings to through the C=O of cytosine and imidazole rings while the potential shifts negatively from 1.3 V to -0.2 V. An in-situ FTIR spectrum of native CT DNA adsorbed at GC electrode surface is similar to that of the dissolved DNA, indicating that the structure of CT DNA is not distorted while it is adsorbed at the GC electrode surface. In the potential range of -0.2 approximately1.30 V, the temperature-denatured CT DNA is adsorbed at the electrode surface first, then undergoes electrochemical oxidation reaction and following that, diffuses away from the electrode surface.
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Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry and National Analytical and Research Center of Electrochemistry and Spectroscopy, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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D000327:Adsorption; D000818:Animals; D002244:Carbon; D002417:Cattle; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D004566:Electrodes; D006358:Hot Temperature; D009691:Nucleic Acid Denaturation; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared
D002244:Carbon; D004247:DNA