| Budget Amount *help |
¥18,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,260,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥8,320,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,920,000)
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| Research Abstract |
We report optical properties of one-dimensional anthracene stacks formed from single-component self-assembly of thymidylic acid-appended anthracene TACT and the binary self-assembly of TACT and complementary 20-meric oligoadenylic acid (TACT/dA20) in an aqueous buffer. Time-resolved fluorescence spectra for TACT suggested that the anthracene moieties in single-component assembly from TACT were flexible. Whereas the template-DNA molecule position the anthracene moieties at the center of a one-dimensional assembly, keep them at distances that permit Förster resonance energy transfer, and separate them from the solvent water molecules, which attack fluorescent molecules and cause non-radiative processes. As a result, the columnar anthracene stacks formed from the DNA-templated self-assembly of TACT can act as an energy transfer pathway in aqueous solution.
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