Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Programming chain-growth copolymerization of DNA hairpin tiles for in-vitro hierarchical supramolecular organization

  • Honglu Zhang,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Huan Zhang,
  • Xiaoguo Liu,
  • Antony Lee,
  • Qiuling Huang,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Jie Chao,
  • Huajie Liu,
  • Jiang Li,
  • Jiye Shi,
  • Xiaolei Zuo,
  • Lihua Wang,
  • Lianhui Wang,
  • Xiaoyu Cao,
  • Carlos Bustamante,
  • Zhongqun Tian,
  • Chunhai Fan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09004-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Formation of biological filaments via intracellular supramolecular polymerization of proteins occurs under programmable and spatiotemporal control to maintain integrity. Here the authors devise a bioinspired isothermal chain-growth approach to programmably copolymerize DNA hairpin tiles into 1D nanofilaments.