Controlling self‐assembly of DNA‐polymer conjugates for applications in imaging and drug delivery

AM Peterson, JM Heemstra - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Amphiphilic supramolecular structures such as micelles and vesicles can be formed through
phase‐driven self‐assembly of monomer units having discrete hydrophilic and hydrophobic …

Biodegradable DNA-brush block copolymer spherical nucleic acids enable transfection agent-free intracellular gene regulation

C Zhang, L Hao, CM Calabrese, Y Zhou… - Small (Weinheim an …, 2015 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A new strategy for synthesizing spherical nucleic acid (SNA) nanostructures from
biodegradable DNA block copolymers is reported. Multiple DNA strands are grafted to one …

[KNJIGA][B] Self-assembly: from surfactants to nanoparticles

R Nagarajan - 2018 - books.google.com
An introduction to the state-of-the-art of the diverse self-assembly systems Self-Assembly:
From Surfactants to Nanoparticles provides an effective entry for new researchers into this …

Nanomaterial building blocks based on spider silk–oligonucleotide conjugates

M Humenik, T Scheibel - ACS nano, 2014 - ACS Publications
Self-assembling protein nanofibrils are promising structures for the “bottom-up” fabrication of
bionanomaterials. Here, the recombinant protein eADF4 (C16), a variant of Araneus …

DNA‐Grafted Supramolecular Polymers: Helical Ribbon Structures Formed by Self‐Assembly of Pyrene–DNA Chimeric Oligomers

Y Vyborna, M Vybornyi, AV Rudnev… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The controlled arraying of DNA strands on adaptive polymeric platforms remains a
challenge. Here, the noncovalent synthesis of DNA‐grafted supramolecular polymers from …

From ribbons to networks: Hierarchical organization of DNA-grafted supramolecular polymers

Y Vyborna, M Vybornyi, R Häner - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
DNA-grafted supramolecular polymers (SPs) allow the programmed organization of DNA in
a highly regular, one-dimensional array. Oligonucleotides are arranged along the edges of …

Formation of DNA‐Copolymer Fibrils Through an Amyloid‐Like Nucleation Polymerization Mechanism

D Kedracki, SK Filippov, N Gour… - Macromolecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugation of a hydrophobic poly (2‐oxazoline) bearing tertiary amide groups along its
backbone with a short single stranded nucleotide sequence results in an amphiphilic …

Synthesis and self-assembly of a DNA molecular brush

D Kedracki, M Chekini, P Maroni, H Schlaad… - …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report herein on the polymer-crystallization-assisted thiol-ene photosynthesis of an
amphiphilic comb/graft DNA copolymer, or molecular brush, composed of a hydrophobic …

Well-defined dibenzocyclooctyne end functionalized polymers from atom transfer radical polymerization

X Yang, S Wang, Y Yan, Y Wu, K Zhang, Y Chen - Polymer, 2014 - Elsevier
The dibenzocyclooctyne end functionalized agent 1 was designed as atom transfer radical
polymerization (ATRP) initiator. The ATRP was then explored on three types of monomers …

Melting thermodynamics of oligonucleic acids conjugated with relatively solvophobic linear polymers: A coarse‐grained molecular simulation study

A Prhashanna, A Jayaraman - Journal of Polymer Science Part …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Oligonucleic acids (ONAs), such as DNA and RNA, are used in various biotechnology and
nanotechnology applications due to their ability to form a double helix that is stable at low …