TY - GEN
T1 - DNA-Programmed Chemical Synthesis in Nano-sized Lipid Compartments
AU - Tian, Xinwei
PY - 2023/11/4
Y1 - 2023/11/4
N2 - Lipid nanoreactors are self-assembled, biocompatible reaction vessels that can host aqueous or membrane-associated (bio)chemical reactions. Nanoreactors provide ultra-miniaturization down to zeptoliter volumes per vessel, but spatio-temporal control over them - at the individual or population level - remains challenging. The lipid-nucleic acid conjugates (LiNAs) mediated liposome fusion developed in the Assoc. Prof. S. Vogel group allows the mixing of the aqueous solutions entrapped within their interior. In this PhD thesis, we for the first time, report DNA-programmed lipid nanoreactors (D-PLNs) that operate chemical reactions, synthesizing different carbohydrate mimetics as model compounds. The chemical conversion yield was pretty nicely, attributed to the highly efficient content mixing and low leakagefree fusion. Optimizing the lipid composition largely increases the fusion performance. Problematic passive leakage in the diffusion of reactants during chemical transformations has been effectively suppressed via PEGylated DOPE modification on the vesicle surface. Through selectively fusing distinct populations of nanoreactors encapsulating mono- and oligosaccharide azides and alkynyl-dyes. We thus obtained quantitative data for ten different triazole-linked carbohydrate-Cy5 conjugates formed by strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloadditions and demonstrated a two-step reaction triggered by cascadic nanoreactor fusion. The study gives a detailed, step-by-step list of experiments that can be used to make DNA-programmed liposome fusion nanoreactors and opens up new possibilities in chemistry, biology, and other fields.
AB - Lipid nanoreactors are self-assembled, biocompatible reaction vessels that can host aqueous or membrane-associated (bio)chemical reactions. Nanoreactors provide ultra-miniaturization down to zeptoliter volumes per vessel, but spatio-temporal control over them - at the individual or population level - remains challenging. The lipid-nucleic acid conjugates (LiNAs) mediated liposome fusion developed in the Assoc. Prof. S. Vogel group allows the mixing of the aqueous solutions entrapped within their interior. In this PhD thesis, we for the first time, report DNA-programmed lipid nanoreactors (D-PLNs) that operate chemical reactions, synthesizing different carbohydrate mimetics as model compounds. The chemical conversion yield was pretty nicely, attributed to the highly efficient content mixing and low leakagefree fusion. Optimizing the lipid composition largely increases the fusion performance. Problematic passive leakage in the diffusion of reactants during chemical transformations has been effectively suppressed via PEGylated DOPE modification on the vesicle surface. Through selectively fusing distinct populations of nanoreactors encapsulating mono- and oligosaccharide azides and alkynyl-dyes. We thus obtained quantitative data for ten different triazole-linked carbohydrate-Cy5 conjugates formed by strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloadditions and demonstrated a two-step reaction triggered by cascadic nanoreactor fusion. The study gives a detailed, step-by-step list of experiments that can be used to make DNA-programmed liposome fusion nanoreactors and opens up new possibilities in chemistry, biology, and other fields.
U2 - 10.21996/266q-8e58
DO - 10.21996/266q-8e58
M3 - Ph.D. thesis
PB - Syddansk Universitet. Det Naturvidenskabelige Fakultet
ER -