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Science, volume 325, issue 5941, pages 725-730

Folding DNA into Twisted and Curved Nanoscale Shapes

Dietz Hendrik 1, 2
Douglas Shawn M 1, 2, 3
Shih William M 1, 2, 3
1
 
Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
2
 
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
3
 
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2009-08-06
Journal: Science
Quartile SCImago
Q1
Quartile WOS
Q1
Impact factor56.9
ISSN00368075, 10959203
Multidisciplinary
Abstract
Stressful Self-Assembly One way to control shape during the assembly of an object is to design in stresses that cause a planned amount of deformation. Dietz et al. (p. 725; see the Perspective by Liu and Yan) designed DNA helix bundles, arranged in honeycomb lattices, in which some of the helices have insertions or deletions relative to the other helices in the bundles. The stresses help the bundles assemble into objects on the scale of tens of nanometers. Both the direction and degree of bending could be controlled, and curvatures as tight as 6 nanometers achieved. Complex shapes, such as square-toothed gears, could be created by combining multiple curved elements. Site-directed insertions and deletions of base pairs direct twist and curvature in crystal-like DNA arrays. We demonstrate the ability to engineer complex shapes that twist and curve at the nanoscale from DNA. Through programmable self-assembly, strands of DNA are directed to form a custom-shaped bundle of tightly cross-linked double helices, arrayed in parallel to their helical axes. Targeted insertions and deletions of base pairs cause the DNA bundles to develop twist of either handedness or to curve. The degree of curvature could be quantitatively controlled, and a radius of curvature as tight as 6 nanometers was achieved. We also combined multiple curved elements to build several different types of intricate nanostructures, such as a wireframe beach ball or square-toothed gears.

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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1126/science.1174251
UR - https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1174251
TI - Folding DNA into Twisted and Curved Nanoscale Shapes
T2 - Science
AU - Dietz, Hendrik
AU - Douglas, Shawn M
AU - Shih, William M
PY - 2009
DA - 2009/08/06 00:00:00
PB - American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
SP - 725-730
IS - 5941
VL - 325
PMID - 19661424
SN - 0036-8075
SN - 1095-9203
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@article{2009_Dietz,
author = {Hendrik Dietz and Shawn M Douglas and William M Shih},
title = {Folding DNA into Twisted and Curved Nanoscale Shapes},
journal = {Science},
year = {2009},
volume = {325},
publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)},
month = {aug},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1174251},
number = {5941},
pages = {725--730},
doi = {10.1126/science.1174251}
}
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Dietz, Hendrik, et al. “Folding DNA into Twisted and Curved Nanoscale Shapes.” Science, vol. 325, no. 5941, Aug. 2009, pp. 725-730. https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1174251.
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