TY - JOUR A1 - Solomun, Tihomir A1 - Mix, Renate A1 - Sturm, Heinz T1 - Immobilization of silanized DNA on glass: influence of the silane tether on the DNA hybridization JF - ACS applied materials & interfaces N2 - Two trifunctional (trimethoxy and triethoxy) and one difunctional (methyldimethoxy) 3-mercaptopropyl-alkoxysilanes were covalently tethered to thiolated DNA oligonucleotides in solution. After deposition as microarrays onto glass, the immobilized DNA probes were tested for hybridization ability by a florescence-based method. The results demonstrate a large enhancement in the fluorescence signal when the functionality of the silane tether is reduced from three to two. An XPS analyses revealed that this is not due to a higher DNA surface density. FTIR spectra of the spin-coated silanes showed that the trifunctional silanes form branched and cyclic siloxane moieties, whereas the difunctional silane generates predominantly short straight siloxane chains. Therefore, the propensity of trifunctional silanes to form more complex networks leads to conformations of the bound DNA which are less favorable for the specific interaction with the complementary strand. The data implicate that further significant improvements in the DNA hybridization ability are possible by adroit choice of the silane system. KW - Silanized DNA KW - DNA immobilization KW - DNA hybridization KW - Fluorescence imaging KW - FTIRS KW - XPS PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/am100263t SN - 1944-8244 SN - 0013-936X SN - 1944-8252 VL - 2 IS - 8 SP - 2171 EP - 2174 PB - ACS Publ. CY - Washington, DC, USA AN - OPUS4-22614 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -