Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Controlling protein activity by dynamic recruitment on a supramolecular polymer platform

  • Sjors P. W. Wijnands,
  • Wouter Engelen,
  • René P. M. Lafleur,
  • E. W. Meijer,
  • Maarten Merkx

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02559-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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DNA-origami allows the precise recruitment of DNA-protein conjugates but lacks the dynamics found in natural protein assemblies. Here the authors present a synthetic polymer platform that combines the dynamics of supramolecular polymers with the programmability of DNA-mediated protein recruitment.