Polyethylene glycols affect electron transfer rate in phenosafranin-DNA complex.

Long distance electron transfer (ET) between small ligands and DNA is a much studied phenomenon and is principally believed to occur through electron (or hole) hopping. Several studies have been carried out in aqueous environments while in real biological milieu the DNA molecules experience a more dense and heterogeneous environment containing otherwise indifferent molecular crowders. It is therefore expected that the ET could get modified in the presence of crowding agent and to investigate that we have made elaborate studies on steady state and time-resolved (picosecond (ps) and femtosecond (fs)-resolved) emission properties of a phenosafranine (PSF) intercalated to calf thymus (CT) DNA in the presence of ethylene glycol (EG) and polyethylene glycols (PEG) of different chain lengths (PEG 200, 400 and 1000). The emission of PSF gets considerably quenched when intercalated to DNA; the quenching is released when PEGs are added into it. The structural integrity of the CT DNA has been established using circular dichroism spectroscopy. CD measurements have evidenced only marginal changes in the DNA structure upon the addition of PEGs. ps-Resolved fluorescence measurements show significant decrease in the contribution of the DNA induced quenched time-constant of PSF upon the addition of PEGs, however, fs-resolved measurements show less noticeable changes in the time constants. Our study shows that the electron hopping rate through the guanine base in DNA core remains unaffected whereas the 'through space' electron transfer process does get affected in the presence of molecular crowders.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Spectrochimica Acta Part A - Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

• Publication date

  2020-01-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1016/j.saa.2019.117464PMID 31465973
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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