Room-temperature Ionic Liquids(ILs) have numerous unique properties that differ from those of conventional molecular solvents.Although the unique properties of ILs have been suggested to origin from their microscopic interionic interaction,detailed dynamics of interionic interaction of ILs has not been fully understood.Here,with the Femtosecond Optical Heterodyne-Detected Raman Induced Kerr Effect Spectroscopy(fs-OHD-RIKES),we measured the ultrafast dynamics of the interionic interaction of three typical imidazolium based ILs,1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate([bmim][BF4]),1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate([bmim][PF6]),and 1-decyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate([dmim][BF4]).We observed several periods of subpicosecond oscillation in their fs-OHD-RIKES signals.Through decomposing their fs-OHD-RIKES signals into four Brownian oscillators in time domain,we explored the cation and anion substitution effects on the ultrafast dynamics of interionic interaction of ILs.We found that the cation substitution affected all the low frequency motions we observed,while the anion substitution only affected the two higher low frequency motions.
A1KB is a kind of enzyme that repairs MethyNA.The phenomenon that double strand DNA(dsDNA) will be contorted w...
Xun Li,Xin Sheng Zhao~* Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences,State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species,and Department of Chemical Biology,College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China
The photophysical property of the tricarbocyanine dye IR144 has been extensively studied in non-aqueous solvents. However, as a potential near-infrared biomedical imaging probe, the photophysical property of IR144 in water is still little known. So, the aggregation behaviors of IR144 in water with steady-state absorption spectroscopy and integrated polarization dependent femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy were investigated. Through comparing the absorption spectral bandshape of IR144 in water and in water pool of AOT reverse micelles, It is found that IR144 form dimer aggregates in water even at very low concentration （〈 1.0× 10^- 7 moloL 1）. And the absorption spectrum of the IR144 aggregates always displays a bimodal feature, which is independent of the dye concentration ranging from 1.0 × 10^-7 to 1.0 × 10^-4 mol·L^-1. For better understanding the aggregation behaviors of IR144 in water, we measured the ground state recovery kinetics and the reorientation kinetics of IR144 in water and in water pool of AOT reverse micelles （W0= [H2O]/[AOT], W0=40）. It is found that the fluorescence quantum yield of 1R144 in water is lower than that in water pool of AOT reverse micelles, and the reorientation time of IR144 in water is slower than that in water pool of AOT reverse micelles. Those kinetic measurements also verify that IR144 exists as dimer aggregates in water.
We developed an integrated microfluidic chip for long-term culture of isolated single cells. This polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) based device could accurately seed each single cell into different culture chambers, and isolate one chamber from each other with monolithically integrated pneumatic valves. We optimized the culture conditions, including the frequency of medium replacement and the introduction of conditioned medium, to keep the single cells alive for 4 days. We cultured a few hundred cells in a separated chamber on the same chip to continuously supply the conditioned medium into the culture chambers for single cells. This approach greatly facilitated the growth of single cells, and created a suitable microenvironment for observing cells' autonomous process in situ without the interference of other adjacent cells. This single cell colony assay is expandable to higher throughput, fitting the needs in the studies of drug screening and stem cell differentiation.
＜正＞It has been a challenge to accurately extract dynamic information from experimental fluorescence correlatio...
YIN Yan-Dong,ZHOU Xiao-Xue,ZHAO Xin-Sheng~* Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences,State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species,and Department of Chemical Biology,College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering,Peking University,Beijing 100871,P.R.China
Nucleotide-specific fluorescence quenching in fluorescently labeled DNA has many applications in biotechnology. We have studied the inter-and intra-molecular quenching of tetramethylrhodamine (TMR) by nucleotides to better understand their quenching mechanism and influencing factors. In agreement with previous work, dGMP can effectively quench TMR, while the quenching of TMR by other nucleotides is negligible. The Stern-Volmer plot between TMR and dGMP delivers a bimolecular quenching constant of Ks=52.3 M-1. The fluorescence of TMR in labeled oligonucleotides decreases efficiently through photoinduced electron transfer by guanosine. The quenching rate constant between TMR and guanosine was measured using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS). In addition, our data show that the steric hindrance by bases around guanosine has significant effect on the G-quenching. The availability of these data should be useful in designing fluorescent oligonucleotides and understanding the G-quenching process.
