Functionalizing DNA origami to investigate and interact with biological systems

GA Knappe, EC Wamhoff, M Bathe - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
DNA origami has emerged as a powerful method to generate DNA nanostructures with
dynamic properties and nanoscale control. These nanostructures enable complex …

Opportunities, barriers, and a strategy for overcoming translational challenges to therapeutic nucleic acid nanotechnology

KA Afonin, MA Dobrovolskaia, G Church… - Therapeutic RNA …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
606Recent clinical successes using therapeutic nucleic acids (TNAs) have accelerated the
transition of nucleic acid nanotechnology toward therapeutic applications. Significant …

Role of nanoscale antigen organization on B-cell activation probed using DNA origami

R Veneziano, TJ Moyer, MB Stone, EC Wamhoff… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Vaccine efficacy can be increased by arraying immunogens in multivalent form on virus-like
nanoparticles to enhance B-cell activation. However, the effects of antigen copy number …

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 …

Enhancing antibody responses by multivalent antigen display on thymus-independent DNA origami scaffolds

EC Wamhoff, L Ronsard, J Feldman, GA Knappe… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Protein-based virus-like particles (P-VLPs) are commonly used to spatially organize
antigens and enhance humoral immunity through multivalent antigen display. However, P …

Rapid prototy** of arbitrary 2D and 3D wireframe DNA origami

H Jun, X Wang, MF Parsons, WP Bricker… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Wireframe DNA origami assemblies can now be programmed automatically from the top-
down using simple wireframe target geometries, or meshes, in 2D and 3D, using either rigid …

DNA origami demonstrate the unique stimulatory power of single pMHCs as T-cell antigens

J Hellmeier, R Platzer, A Eklund, T Schlichthaerle… - Biophysical …, 2021 - cell.com
T-cells detect with their T-cell antigen receptors (TCRs) the presence of rare agonist
peptide/MHC complexes (pMHCs) on the surface of antigen presenting cells (APCs). How …

CRISPR–Cas9-mediated nuclear transport and genomic integration of nanostructured genes in human primary cells

E Lin-Shiao, WG Pfeifer, BR Shy… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
DNA nanostructures are a promising tool to deliver molecular payloads to cells. DNA
origami structures, where long single-stranded DNA is folded into a compact nanostructure …

3D RNA-scaffolded wireframe origami

MF Parsons, MF Allan, S Li, TR Shepherd… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Hybrid RNA: DNA origami, in which a long RNA scaffold strand folds into a target
nanostructure via thermal annealing with complementary DNA oligos, has only been …

Nanoscale 3D spatial addressing and valence control of quantum dots using wireframe DNA origami

C Chen, X Wei, MF Parsons, J Guo, JL Banal… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Control over the copy number and nanoscale positioning of quantum dots (QDs) is critical to
their application to functional nanomaterials design. However, the multiple non-specific …