Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

DNA origami cryptography for secure communication

  • Yinan Zhang,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Jie Chao,
  • Mo Xie,
  • Huajie Liu,
  • Muchen Pan,
  • Enzo Kopperger,
  • Xiaoguo Liu,
  • Qian Li,
  • Jiye Shi,
  • Lihua Wang,
  • Jun Hu,
  • Lianhui Wang,
  • Friedrich C. Simmel,
  • Chunhai Fan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13517-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Biomolecular cyptography that exploits specific interactions could be used for data encryption. Here the authors use the folding of M13 DNA to encrypt information for secure communication.