Development of a guanine nanowire (G-wire) that is controllable and can be switched by external signals is important for the creation of molecular electronic technologies. Here, we constructed a G-wire in which the thymines of the main chain of d (G4T4G4) were replaced with 2, 2'-bipyridine units, which have two aromatic rings that rotate arbitrarily upon coordination with metal ions. Circular dichroism of the DNA oligonucleotides with or ...