Label-free, optical sensing of the supramolecular assembly into fibrils of a ditryptophan–DNA hybrid

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Nidhi Gour · University of Geneva

Jancy Nixon Abraham · Charles Humbert 8

Mohamed Chami · University of Basel

A. Salinas Castillo · Charles Humbert 8

Sandeep Verma · Centre for Science and Environment

Corinne Vebert‐Nardin · University of Geneva

Abstract

The grafting of a short nucleic acid strand to ditryptophan dipeptide (WW) results in a peptide-DNA hybrid, which assembles into fibrils under controlled aggregation conditions as evidenced by label free optical sensing owing to the intrinsic fluorescence of the dipeptide.

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Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

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Published in: Chemical Communications

Volume 50, Issue 52, pp. 6863-6865

DOI: 10.1039/c4cc02631d

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Label-free, optical sensing of the supramolecular assembly into fibrils of a ditryptophan–DNA hybrid

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