119th General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area 고분자화학
Room No. 포스터발표장
Time 4월 21일 (금요일) 13:00~14:30
Code POLY.P-2
Subject Control of the Hydrophobic and Electrostatic Interaction between Molecular Beacon Aptamer and Conjugated Polyelectrolyte for Detection Range-Tunable ATP Assay
Authors 정지은, 우한영*
고려대학교 이과대학 화학과, Korea
Abstract Electrostatic and hydropobic interactions between cationic conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs) and molecular beacon aptamer (MBA) makes MBA to have conformation of either open chain or G-quadruplex depending on the presence of a target. MBA is labelled with a fluorophore and a quencher at both termini. In the absence of a target, MBAs have open chain conformation with CPEs, enabling facile FRET from the CPEs to a fluorophore in MBA. By forming a G-quadruplex with a target, strong interaction between the MBA and target ensures the close contact between fluorophore and quencher, resulting in quenched PL signal. Here we report a new strategy of detection range modulation in the CPE-MBA based assay with different stem strength. Modification of ionic density of CPEs suggests an efficient way to fine-control the assay characteristics like detection range and limit of detection.
E-mail jieunj@korea.ac.kr