DNA origami: scaffolds for creating higher order structures

F Hong, F Zhang, Y Liu, H Yan - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
DNA has become one of the most extensively used molecular building blocks for
engineering self-assembling materials. DNA origami is a technique that uses hundreds of …

Building machines with DNA molecules

H Ramezani, H Dietz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
In nature, DNA molecules carry the hereditary information. But DNA has physical and
chemical properties that make it attractive for uses beyond heredity. In this Review, we …

Highly shape-and size-tunable membrane nanopores made with DNA

Y **ng, A Dorey, L Jayasinghe, S Howorka - Nature Nanotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Membrane nanopores are key for molecular transport in biology, portable DNA sequencing,,–
, label-free single-molecule analysis,,,,,,,,–and nanomedicine. Transport traditionally relies …

The beauty and utility of DNA origami

P Wang, TA Meyer, V Pan, PK Dutta, Y Ke - Chem, 2017 - cell.com
This review focuses on fundamental advances in DNA origami design and its emerging
applications. For convenience, applications are coarsely categorized into nanofabrication …

Prediction of DNA origami shape using graph neural network

C Truong-Quoc, JY Lee, KS Kim, DN Kim - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Unlike proteins, which have a wealth of validated structural data, experimentally or
computationally validated DNA origami datasets are limited. Here we present a graph neural …

DNA nanostructures for exploring cell–cell communication

Y Wang, Y **ong, K Shi, CY Effah, L Song… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The process of coordinating between the same or multiple types of cells to jointly execute
various instructions in a controlled and carefully regulated environment is a very appealing …

Building membrane nanopores

S Howorka - Nature nanotechnology, 2017 - nature.com
Membrane nanopores—hollow nanoscale barrels that puncture biological or synthetic
membranes—have become powerful tools in chemical-and biosensing, and have achieved …

A reversibly gated protein-transporting membrane channel made of DNA

S Dey, A Dorey, L Abraham, Y **ng, I Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Controlled transport of biomolecules across lipid bilayer membranes is of profound
significance in biological processes. In cells, cargo exchange is mediated by dedicated …

A large size-selective DNA nanopore with sensing applications

RP Thomsen, MG Malle, AH Okholm, S Krishnan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Transmembrane nanostructures like ion channels and transporters perform key biological
functions by controlling flow of molecules across lipid bilayers. Much work has gone into …

Photoresponsive DNA materials and their applications

C Wang, MP O'Hagan, Z Li, J Zhang, X Ma… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoresponsive nucleic acids attract growing interest as functional constituents in materials
science. Integration of photoisomerizable units into DNA strands provides an ideal handle …