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Title: Temperature-dependent conformations of exciton-coupled Cy3 dimers in double-stranded DNA

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5020084· OSTI ID:1470511
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  1. Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Optical, Molecular and Quantum Science
  2. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
  3. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States).Dept. of Chemistry
  4. Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR (United States). Dept. of Physics, Center for Optical, Molecular, and Quantum Science
  5. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, ON (Canada)
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Understanding the properties of electronically interacting molecular chromophores, which involve internally coupled electronic-vibrational motions, is important to the spectroscopy of many biologically relevant systems. In this paper, we apply linear absorption, circular dichroism, and two-dimensional fluorescence spectroscopy to study the polarized collective excitations of excitonically coupled cyanine dimers (Cy3)2 that are rigidly positioned within the opposing sugar-phosphate backbones of the double-stranded region of a double-stranded (ds)–single-stranded (ss) DNA fork construct. We show that the exciton-coupling strength of the (Cy3)2-DNA construct can be systematically varied with temperature below the ds–ss DNA denaturation transition. We interpret spectroscopic measurements in terms of the Holstein vibronic dimer model, from which we obtain information about the local conformation of the (Cy3)2 dimer, as well as the degree of static disorder experienced by the Cy3 monomer and the (Cy3)2 dimer probe locally within their respective DNA duplex environments. The properties of the (Cy3)2-DNA construct we determine suggest that it may be employed as a useful model system to test fundamental concepts of protein-DNA interactions and the role of electronic-vibrational coherence in electronic energy migration within exciton-coupled bio-molecular arrays.

Research Organization:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC), Washington, D.C. (United States). Center for Excitonics (CE)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0001088
OSTI ID:
1470511
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1422667
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 148, Issue 8; Related Information: CE partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (lead); Brookhaven National Laboratory; Harvard University; ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 53 works
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