Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

A synthetic tubular molecular transport system

  • Pierre Stömmer,
  • Henrik Kiefer,
  • Enzo Kopperger,
  • Maximilian N. Honemann,
  • Massimo Kube,
  • Friedrich C. Simmel,
  • Roland R. Netz,
  • Hendrik Dietz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24675-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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DNA origami can be used to control the movement of nanoscale assemblies. Here the authors construct multiple-micrometer-long hollow DNA filaments through which DNA pistons move with micrometer-per-second speeds.