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ArticleNature chemistry2012

Submicrometre geometrically encoded fluorescent barcodes self-assembled from DNA.

Chenxiang Lin, Ralf Jungmann, Andrew M Leifer, Chao Li, Daniel Levner, George M Church, William M Shih, Peng Yin

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

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80 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Chenxiang LinWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Ralf Jungmann
Andrew M Leifer
Chao Li
Daniel Levner
George M Church
William M Shih
Peng Yin

Funding

Causal Transcriptional Consequences of Human Genetic VariationP50HG005550 · NHGRI · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI CHURCH, GEORGE M · 2010 to 2014
$19.0M
NMR Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins Enabled by DNA NanotubesDP2OD004641 · OD · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI SHIH, WILLIAM M · 2008 to 2008
$2.6M
Engineering Bioimaging Probes Based on Triggered Molecular GeometryDP2OD007292 · OD · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI YIN, PENG · 2010 to 2010
$2.5M
NHGRI NIH HHS P50 HG005550NIH HHS 1DP2OD004641NIH HHS 1DP2OD007292NIH HHS DP2 OD004641NIH HHS DP2 OD007292
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The identification and differentiation of a large number of distinct molecular species with high temporal and spatial resolution is a major challenge in biomedical science. Fluorescence microscopy is a powerful tool, but its multiplexing ability is limited by the number of spectrally distinguishable fluorophores. Here, we used (deoxy)ribonucleic acid (DNA)-origami technology to construct submicrometre nanorods that act as fluorescent barcodes. We demonstrate that spatial control over the positioning of fluorophores on the surface of a stiff DNA nanorod can produce 216 distinct barcodes that can be decoded unambiguously using epifluorescence or total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy. Barcodes with higher spatial information density were demonstrated via the construction of super-resolution barcodes with features spaced by ∼40 nm. One species of the barcodes was used to tag yeast surface receptors, which suggests their potential applications as in situ imaging probes for diverse biomolecular and cellular entities in their native environments.

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DNAFluorescent DyesMicroscopy, FluorescenceNanotubesDNAFluorescent Dyes

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PMID23000997
PMCPMC3523708

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