Cooperativity-based modeling of heterotypic DNA nanostructure assembly.

ABSTRACT: DNA origami is a robust method for the fabrication of nanoscale 2D and 3D objects with complex features and geometries. The process of DNA origami folding has been recently studied, however quantitative understanding of it is still elusive. Here, we describe a systematic quantification of the assembly process of DNA nanostructures, focusing on the heterotypic DNA junction-in which arms are unequal-as their basic building block. Using bulk fluorescence studies we tracked this process and identified multiple levels of cooperativity from the arms in a single junction to neighboring junctions in a large DNA origami object, demonstrating that cooperativity is a central underlying mechanism in the process of DNA nanostructure assembly. We show that the assembly of junctions in which the arms are

SUBMITTER: Shapiro A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4513873 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature