Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

DNA origami-based shape IDs for single-molecule nanomechanical genotyping

  • Honglu Zhang,
  • Jie Chao,
  • Dun Pan,
  • Huajie Liu,
  • Yu Qiang,
  • Ke Liu,
  • Chengjun Cui,
  • Jianhua Chen,
  • Qing Huang,
  • Jun Hu,
  • Lianhui Wang,
  • Wei Huang,
  • Yongyong Shi,
  • Chunhai Fan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14738
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Atomic force microscopy allows for the imaging of molecules at a nanometre resolution. Here the authors combine AFM with self-assembling DNA origami structures to detect single-nucleotide polymorphisms and determine haplotypes.