title: Electric potential induced dissociation of hybridized DNA with hairpin motif immobilized on silicon surface.
abstract: DNA probes were immobilized on silicon surfaces through ester condensation between the -COOH group on the surface and the terminal -OH group in the oligonucleotide, and the surface density of DNA probes against the concentration of immobilization solution was measured by radioactive labeling. The dissociation of DNA duplex on the surface by an electric potential was studied with the scanning potential hairpin denaturation/dissociation (SPHD). The influence of the stem length in the hairpin probe on the SPHD curve was systematically investigated. It was found that the capability of discrimination on single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) by a hairpin probe was related to the free energy of formation of the secondary structure in the probe (DeltaG(ss)). In our system, when DeltaG(ss) was around -3 kcal/mol, an optimal recognition of SNP was reached and the SPHD curve was sigmoid. In contrast, the equivalent SPHD curve from a linear probe was exponential-decay alike with a poor discrimination of SNP. The concentration dependent experiments showed good linearity between the melting potential and logarithm of target concentration in the range of 1 x 10(-9) to 5 x 10(-7) M.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Qu
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhai
authors.forename: Chunlai
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Haifang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xin Sheng
authors.initials: XS
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D015342:DNA Probes / Q000737:chemistry*; D004563:Electrochemistry; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D012825:Silicon; D013499:Surface Properties; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D015342:DNA Probes; D012825:Silicon