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The photophysical properties of an intercalating unsymmetrical monomethine cyanine dye and single-stranded DNA homopolymers show strong association for poly(dA) and poly(dG), but not for poly(dC) and poly(dT), as determined by several spectroscopic techniques and molecular dynamics calculations. While poly(dA) and poly(dG) appear to bind the dye as a monomer (with dramatic increase in fluorescence), poly(dC) and poly(dT) bind only very weakly, and seem to promote dye aggregation. Only in the case of poly(dA) there seems to be a unique, well defined form of intercalation, that molecular dynamics calculations suggest involve the quinoline ring between two bases, in an arrangement that should favor π-stacking; consistently with this, the decay of the fluorescence shows a single exponential, the absorption spectrum shows a shift in the dye maximum, the fluorescence is strong, and the induced circular dichroism follows a simple pattern.
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† Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Computational details, Fig. S1–S6; movies of the dynamic simulation of Fig. S1–S4. See http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b508720a
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Mikelsons, L., Carra, C., Shaw, M. et al. Experimental and theoretical study of the interaction of single-stranded DNA homopolymers and a monomethine cyanine dye: nature of specific binding. Photochem Photobiol Sci 4, 798–802 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1039/b508720a
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