Molecular Rotors as Reporters for Viscosity of Solutions of Collagen Like Peptides

Author(s):  
Christopher McTiernan ◽  
Matias Zuñiga-Bustos ◽  
Roberto Rosales-Rojas ◽  
Pablo Barrias ◽  
May Griffith ◽  
...  

We have studied the suitability of using a molecular rotor-based steady-state fluorometric assay for evaluating changes in both the conformation and the viscosity of collagen-like peptide solutions. Our results indicate...

Nanoscale ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (44) ◽  
pp. 21311-21316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Qin Lu ◽  
Qiang Chen ◽  
Xin-Xin Tian ◽  
Yue-Wen Mu ◽  
Hai-Gang Lu ◽  
...  

Extensive first-principles theory calculations predict the possibility of bi-decker inverse sandwich complexes La2[B18], La2[B18]2−, and La2[B2@B18], with the B2-centered La2[B2@B18] as a tubular molecular rotor possessing the smallest core–shell structure.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 6121-6133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Clark ◽  
Mohd A. Nawawi ◽  
Ana Dobre ◽  
David Pugh ◽  
Qingshan Liu ◽  
...  

The behaviour of two molecular rotors have been studied in various ionic liquids. Time resolved fluorescence shows a complex relationship between the bulk viscosity of the ionic liquid and microstructure of solvent around each molecular rotor.


2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter J. Akers ◽  
Mark A. Haidekker

Blood viscosity changes with many pathologic conditions, but its importance has not been fully investigated because the current methods of measurement are poorly suited for clinical applications. The use of viscosity-sensitive fluorescent molecular rotors to determine fluid viscosity in a nonmechanical manner has been investigated recently, but it is unknown how the precision of the fluorescence-based method compares to established mechanical viscometry. Human blood plasma viscosity was modulated with high-viscosity plasma expanders, dextran, pentastarch, and hetastarch. The samples were divided into a calibration and a test set. The relationship between fluorescence emission and viscosity was established using the calibration set. Viscosity of the test set was determined by fluorescence and by cone-and-plate viscometer, and the precision of both methods compared. Molecular rotor fluorescence intensity showed a power law relationship with solution viscosity. Mechanical measurements deviated from the theoretical viscosity value by less than 7.6%, while fluorescence-based measurements deviated by less than 6%. The average coefficient of variation was 6.9% (mechanical measurement) and 3.4% to 3.8% (fluorescence-based measurement, depending on the molecular rotor used). Fluorescence-based viscometry exhibits comparable precision to mechanical viscometry. Fluorescence viscometry does not apply shear and is therefore more practical for biofluids which have apparent non-Newtonian properties. In addition, fluorescence instrumentation makes very fast serial measurements possible, thus promising new areas of application in laboratory and clinical settings.


2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (36) ◽  
pp. 23202-23213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pegah S. Nabavi Zadeh ◽  
Milene Zezzi do Valle Gomes ◽  
Maria Abrahamsson ◽  
Anders E. C. Palmqvist ◽  
Björn Åkerman

Fluorescence spectroscopy of protein-bound molecular rotors Cy3 and Cy5 is used to monitor the effective viscosity inside the pores of two types of mesoporous silica (SBA-15 and MCF) with pore diameters between 8.9 and 33 nm.


2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (55) ◽  
pp. 7776-7779 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Bracco ◽  
T. Miyano ◽  
M. Negroni ◽  
I. Bassanetti ◽  
L. Marchio' ◽  
...  

Porous molecular crystals contain fast molecular rotors whose dynamics can be controlled by CO2.


Author(s):  
Le-Ping Miao ◽  
Lin-Lin Chu ◽  
Xiang-Bin Han ◽  
Bei-Dou Liang ◽  
Chao-Yang Chai ◽  
...  

Functional dynamic molecular crystals have drawn increasing interest in exploring next-generation flexible and smart materials. Molecular rotors, as a typical type of dynamic materials, are good candidates to exhibit bulk...


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (14) ◽  
pp. 3002-3009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iuliia A. Karpenko ◽  
Yosuke Niko ◽  
Viktor P. Yakubovskyi ◽  
Andriy O. Gerasov ◽  
Dominique Bonnet ◽  
...  

Fluorescent solvatochromic dyes and molecular rotors have attracted considerable attention as fluorogenic probes because of background-free detection of biomolecules in live cells in no-wash conditions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (44) ◽  
pp. 10373-10380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beidou Feng ◽  
Kui Wang ◽  
Yonggang Yang ◽  
Ge Wang ◽  
Hua Zhang ◽  
...  

Molecular rotors self-regulate their conformations to emit different ultrasensitive recognition signals for AP sites in DNA at the single-cell level.


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuangzan Lu ◽  
Min Huang ◽  
Guodong Huang ◽  
Qinmin Guo ◽  
Hongxing Li ◽  
...  

Manipulation of artificial molecular rotors/motors is a key issue in the field of molecular nanomachine. Here we assemble non-planar SnPc molecules on FeO film to form two kinds of rotors...


2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 968-971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianhao Wu ◽  
Liwei Liu ◽  
Yajie Zhang ◽  
Yifan Wang ◽  
Ziyong Shen ◽  
...  

Tin-phthalocyanine acts as a molecular rotor on the Ag(111) surface with four different rotational axes from the center to the periphery of the molecule.


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