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ArticleNature communications2017

A DNA nanoscope via auto-cycling proximity recording.

Thomas E Schaus, Sungwook Woo, Feng Xuan, Xi Chen, Peng Yin

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Article in Nature communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Spatial coherence in DNA barcode networks.Patterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2025
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  13. Catalytic DNA Polymerization Can Be Expedited by Active Product Release.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2022
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  14. Protein Sequencing, One Molecule at a Time.Annual review of biophysics · 2022
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  18. Bringing Microscopy-By-Sequencing into View.Trends in biotechnology · 2020
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  20. A computational framework for DNA sequencing microscopy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Thomas E SchausWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 3 Blackfan Circle, 5th Floor, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Sungwook WooWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 3 Blackfan Circle, 5th Floor, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Feng XuanWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 3 Blackfan Circle, 5th Floor, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Xi ChenWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 3 Blackfan Circle, 5th Floor, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Peng YinWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 3 Blackfan Circle, 5th Floor, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. py@hms.harvard.edu.

Funding

Super-resolution imaging via programmable autonomous blinkingR01EB018659 · NIBIB · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI YIN, PENG · 2013 to 2017
$3.3M
Engineering Bioimaging Probes Based on Triggered Molecular GeometryDP2OD007292 · OD · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI YIN, PENG · 2010 to 2010
$2.5M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB018659NIH HHS DP2 OD007292
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Analysis of the spatial arrangement of molecular features enables the engineering of synthetic nanostructures and the understanding of natural ones. The ability to acquire a comprehensive set of pairwise proximities between components would satisfy an increasing interest in investigating individual macromolecules and their interactions, but current biochemical techniques detect only a single proximity partner per probe. Here, we present a biochemical DNA nanoscopy method that records nanostructure features in situ and in detail for later readout. Based on a conceptually novel auto-cycling proximity recording (APR) mechanism, it continuously and repeatedly produces proximity records of any nearby pairs of DNA-barcoded probes, at physiological temperature, without altering the probes themselves. We demonstrate the production of dozens of records per probe, decode the spatial arrangements of 7 unique probes in a homogeneous sample, and repeatedly sample the same probes in different states.The spatial organisation of nanostructures is fundamental to their function. Here, the authors develop a non-destructive, proximity-based method to record extensive spatial organization information in DNA molecules for later readout.

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Base SequenceDNADNA ProbesModels, MolecularNanostructuresNanotechnologyNucleic Acid ConformationStreptavidinThermodynamicsDNADNA ProbesStreptavidin

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PMID28947733
PMCPMC5612940

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