Issue 12, 2013

Control of the poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) phase transition via a single strand–double strand transformation of conjugated DNA

Abstract

We have demonstrated that the aggregation of DNA-conjugated thermoresponsive polymer was inhibited by the formation of double strand DNA (dsDNA) from single strand DNA (ssDNA) by the change in the number of electric charges and hydrophilic states of DNA. The polymer was prepared by conjugation of short ssDNA with poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) and subsequent hybridization of the conjugated DNA with complementary DNA to form dsDNA. The ssDNA-conjugated PNIPAM highly aggregated with an increase in temperature, while the dsDNA-conjugated PNIPAM was inhibited from aggregation by the hybridization with fully matched complementary DNA and further prevented by hybridization with longer complementary DNA with a protruding sequence. Further characterizations suggest that the difference in the degree of aggregation between the ssDNA- and dsDNA-conjugated PNIPAM was mainly driven by the change in the number of electric charges associated with the conjugated DNA.

Graphical abstract: Control of the poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) phase transition via a single strand–double strand transformation of conjugated DNA

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
27 Sep 2012
Accepted
09 Jan 2013
First published
11 Feb 2013

Soft Matter, 2013,9, 3331-3340

Control of the poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) phase transition via a single strand–double strand transformation of conjugated DNA

Y. Sugawara, T. Tamaki, H. Ohashi and T. Yamaguchi, Soft Matter, 2013, 9, 3331 DOI: 10.1039/C3SM27230C

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