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ArticleNature nanotechnology2016

DNA condensation in one dimension.

Günther Pardatscher, Dan Bracha, Shirley S Daube, Ohad Vonshak, Friedrich C Simmel, Roy H Bar-Ziv

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Article in Nature nanotechnology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. DNA storage: The future direction for medical cold data storage.Synthetic and systems biotechnology · 2025
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  3. Cell-Free Gene Expression from DNA Brushes.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Günther PardatscherSystems Biophysics and Bionanotechnology - E14, Physics-Department and ZNN, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany.
Dan BrachaDepartment of Materials and Interfaces, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Shirley S DaubeDepartment of Materials and Interfaces, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Ohad VonshakDepartment of Materials and Interfaces, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Friedrich C SimmelSystems Biophysics and Bionanotechnology - E14, Physics-Department and ZNN, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3829-3446
Roy H Bar-ZivDepartment of Materials and Interfaces, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA can be programmed to assemble into a variety of shapes and patterns on the nanoscale and can act as a template for hybrid nanostructures such as conducting wires, protein arrays and field-effect transistors. Current DNA nanostructures are typically in the sub-micrometre range, limited by the sequence space and length of the assembled strands. Here we show that on a patterned biochip, DNA chains collapse into one-dimensional (1D) fibres that are 20 nm wide and around 70 µm long, each comprising approximately 35 co-aligned chains at its cross-section. Electron beam writing on a photocleavable monolayer was used to immobilize and pattern the DNA molecules, which condense into 1D bundles in the presence of spermidine. DNA condensation can propagate and split at junctions, cross gaps and create domain walls between counterpropagating fronts. This system is inherently adept at solving probabilistic problems and was used to find the possible paths through a maze and to evaluate stochastic switching circuits. This technique could be used to propagate biological or ionic signals in combination with sequence-specific DNA nanotechnology or for gene expression in cell-free DNA compartments.

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DNAMicroscopy, Atomic ForceMicroscopy, Electron, ScanningNanostructuresNanotechnologyNucleic Acid ConformationStatic ElectricityDNA

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PMID27501315

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