Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

ATP-powered molecular recognition to engineer transient multivalency and self-sorting 4D hierarchical systems

  • Jie Deng,
  • Andreas Walther

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17479-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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There is interest in creating life-like behaviours in synthetic multicomponent systems. Here, the authors report on a modular DNA toolbox able to create transient, dynamic structures using ATP-driven molecular recognition in which multiple systems can run in parallel and across hierarchies.