title: Surface plasmon resonance and electrochemistry characterization of layer-by-layer self-assembled DNA and Zr4+ thin films, and their interaction with cytochrome c.
abstract: Through electrostatic layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly, negatively charged calf thymus double stranded DNA (CTds-DNA), and positively charged Zr4+ ions were alternately deposited on gold substrate modified with chemisorbed cysteamine. Thus-prepared three-dimensional DNA networks were characterized by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy (IR-RAS). SPR spectroscopy indicates that the effective thickness of DNA monolayer in the (DNA/Zr4+)(1) bilayer was 1.5+/-0.1 nm, which corresponds to the surface coverage of 79% of its full packed monolayer. At the same time, a linear increase of film thickness with increasing number of layers was also confirmed by SPR characterizations. The data of XPS and IR-RAS show that Zr4+ ions interact with both the phosphate groups and nitrogenous bases of DNA and load into the framework of DNA. Furthermore, the interactions between this composite film and heme protein cytochrome c (Cyt c) were investigated by SPR spectroscopy and electrochemistry. Compared with the adsorption of Cyt c on DNA monolayer, this composite multilayer film can obviously enhance the amount of immobilized Cyt c confirmed by SPR reflectivity-incident angle (R-theta) curves. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) indicates the Cyt c adsorbed on the composite film is electroactive, and the enhancement of peak current in CV indirectly verifies the increase of the amount of immobilized Cyt c.
authors: State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun Jilin 130022, China.
authors: Jianlong
authors: J
authors: Wang
authors: Fuan
authors: F
authors: Wang
authors: Zhiai
authors: Z
authors: Xu
authors: Yizhe
authors: Y
authors: Wang
authors: Shaojun
authors: S
authors: Dong
mesh_terms: D045304:Cytochromes c / Q000737:chemistry*; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D004563:Electrochemistry; D055672:Static Electricity; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance; D015040:Zirconium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D045304:Cytochromes c; D004247:DNA; C427203:calf thymus DNA; D015040:Zirconium