Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Complex wireframe DNA nanostructures from simple building blocks

  • Wen Wang,
  • Silian Chen,
  • Byoungkwon An,
  • Kai Huang,
  • Tanxi Bai,
  • Mengyuan Xu,
  • Gaëtan Bellot,
  • Yonggang Ke,
  • Ye Xiang,
  • Bryan Wei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08647-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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DNA nanostructures of increasing complexity have been designed using scaffolded origami or single-stranded tiles and bricks. Here the authors demonstrate the construction of complex structures using a wireframe approach that overcomes limitations of using scaffolding.