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Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes

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  • Shawn M. Douglas

    (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
    Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.)

  • Hendrik Dietz

    (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.)

  • Tim Liedl

    (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.)

  • Björn Högberg

    (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.)

  • Franziska Graf

    (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
    Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.)

  • William M. Shih

    (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
    Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.)

Abstract

Nanomaterials get complicated An important goal in nanotechnology is the programmable self-assembly of complex, three-dimensional nanostructures. With DNA as the building block, synthesis techniques have developed to the stage where two-dimensional designer structures and certain three-dimensional structures can be produced. Douglas et al. describe a refinement of the scaffolded DNA origami technique capable of producing three-dimensional objects of more or less any desired form, to a scale of ten to a hundred nanometres, and with an impressive degree of control over the positions of the various DNA helices. The synthesis involves DNA helices arranged on pleated strands and assembled into honeycomb-like three-dimensional structures. The various strands link together via phosphate groups. The method produces complex objects that are slow to assemble. But it also provides a route towards assembling custom devices with nanometre-scale features, as demonstrated by the construction of objects with shapes resembling a square nut, slotted cross and wire-frame icosahedron.

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  • Shawn M. Douglas & Hendrik Dietz & Tim Liedl & Björn Högberg & Franziska Graf & William M. Shih, 2009. "Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes," Nature, Nature, vol. 459(7245), pages 414-418, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:459:y:2009:i:7245:d:10.1038_nature08016
    DOI: 10.1038/nature08016
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