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. 2024 Jul 17;17(14):3530.
doi: 10.3390/ma17143530.

Plasmid DNA Complexes in Powder Form Studied by Spectroscopic and Diffraction Methods

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Plasmid DNA Complexes in Powder Form Studied by Spectroscopic and Diffraction Methods

Aleksandra Radko et al. Materials (Basel). .

Abstract

Currently, new functional materials are being created with a strong emphasis on their ecological aspect. Materials and devices based on DNA biopolymers, being environmentally friendly, are therefore very interesting from the point of view of applications. In this paper, we present the results of research on complexes in the powder form based on plasmid DNA (pDNA) and three surfactants with aliphatic chains containing 16 carbon atoms (cetyltrimethylammonium chloride, benzyldimethylhexadecylammonium chloride and hexadecylpyridinium chloride). The X-ray diffraction results indicate a local hexagonal packing of DNA helices in plasmid DNA complexes, resembling the packing for corresponding complexes based on linear DNA. Based on the Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy results, the DNA conformation in all three complexes was determined as predominantly of A-type. The two relaxation processes revealed by dielectric spectroscopy for all the studied complexes are connected with two different contributions to total conductivity (crystallite part and grain boundaries). The crystallite part (grain interior) was interpreted as an oscillation of the polar surfactant head groups and is dependent on the conformation of the surfactant chain. The influence of the DNA type on the properties of the complexes is discussed, taking into account our previous results for complexes based on linear DNA. We showed that the type of DNA has an impact on the properties of the complexes, which has not been demonstrated so far. It was also found that the layer of pDNA-surfactant complexes can be used as a layer with variable specific electric conductivity by selecting the frequency, which is interesting from an application point of view.

Keywords: DNA complex; X-ray diffraction; dielectric spectroscopy; infrared spectroscopy; plasmid DNA.

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Figure A1
Comparison of FT-MIR spectra of bulk plasmid DNA (pDNA) and linear DNA (dsDNA). Results for linear DNA are presented in [20].
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Figure 1
FT-MIR spectra of pure components (pDNA, CTMA, HDP and BAC) and obtained complexes: pDNA–CTMA (a), pDNA–HDP (b) and pDNA–BAC (c).
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Figure 2
XRD patterns for pDNA-based complexes with three different surfactants.
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Figure 3
The dielectric dispersion (a) and absorption (b) as well as real part of specific electric conductivity (c) for pDNA complexes. The legend in (a) is the same for all graphs.
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Figure 4
Real (a) and imaginary (b) part of the impedance for all complexes studied; legend in (a) is valid for (b).
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Figure 5
Nyquist plot for complexes studied: pDNA–BAC (a), pDNA–CTMA (b) and pDNA–HDP (c) as well as an impedance spectrum with fitting result for pDNA–HDP complex (d). Black line represents the best fit of Equation (1) to the experimental data (open points); the red line represents fitted data for the grain boundaries (R1), while the green line represents the grain interior (crystallite part of the sample—R2). Calculated equivalent circuit: two RC parallel connected in series (e).

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