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ArticleNature chemistry2011

Programmable molecular recognition based on the geometry of DNA nanostructures.

Sungwook Woo, Paul W K Rothemund

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 113 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

113 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. pH-Driven Actuation of Unmodified DNA Origami Rectangles.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  13. Beyond Dimerization: Harnessing Tetrameric Coiled-Coils for Nanostructure Assembly.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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  14. Chiral Plasmonic Crystals Self-Assembled by DNA Origami.The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces · 2025
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  17. Automated Purification of DNA Origami with SPRI Beads.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sungwook WooDepartment of Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA. woo@dna.caltech.edu
Paul W K Rothemund

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

From ligand-receptor binding to DNA hybridization, molecular recognition plays a central role in biology. Over the past several decades, chemists have successfully reproduced the exquisite specificity of biomolecular interactions. However, engineering multiple specific interactions in synthetic systems remains difficult. DNA retains its position as the best medium with which to create orthogonal, isoenergetic interactions, based on the complementarity of Watson-Crick binding. Here we show that DNA can be used to create diverse bonds using an entirely different principle: the geometric arrangement of blunt-end stacking interactions. We show that both binary codes and shape complementarity can serve as a basis for such stacking bonds, and explore their specificity, thermodynamics and binding rules. Orthogonal stacking bonds were used to connect five distinct DNA origami. This work, which demonstrates how a single attractive interaction can be developed to create diverse bonds, may guide strategies for molecular recognition in systems beyond DNA nanostructures.

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NanostructuresDNAIsomerismNucleic Acid HybridizationThermodynamicsDNA

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PMID21778982

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