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Isothermal Assembly of DNA Origami Structures Using Denaturing Agents

Physics Department E14, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130 (31), pp 10062–10063
DOI: 10.1021/ja8030196
Publication Date (Web): July 10, 2008
Copyright © 2008 American Chemical Society
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Technische Universität München.

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Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

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DNA origami is one of the most promising recent developments in DNA self-assembly. It allows for the construction of arbitrary nanoscale patterns and objects by folding a long viral scaffold strand using a large number of short “staple” strands. Assembly is usually accomplished by thermal annealing of the DNA molecules in buffer solution. We here demonstrate that both 2D and 3D origami structures can be assembled isothermally by annealing the DNA strands in denaturing buffer, followed by a controlled reduction of denaturant concentration. This opens up origami assembly for the integration of temperature-sensitive components.

Experimental procedures, additional AFM, TEM and gel electrophoresis images. This material is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.

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