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ArticleNature communications2021

Robust nucleation control via crisscross polymerization of highly coordinated DNA slats.

Dionis Minev, Christopher M Wintersinger, Anastasia Ershova, William M Shih

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4 authors.

Dionis Minev *John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Christopher M Wintersinger *John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Anastasia ErshovaWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7798-615X
William M ShihWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. William_Shih@dfci.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1395-9267

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural biomolecular assemblies such as actin filaments or microtubules can exhibit all-or-nothing polymerization in a kinetically controlled fashion. The kinetic barrier to spontaneous nucleation arises in part from positive cooperativity deriving from joint-neighbor capture, where stable capture of incoming monomers requires straddling multiple subunits on a filament end. For programmable DNA self-assembly, it is likewise desirable to suppress spontaneous nucleation to enable powerful capabilities such as all-or-nothing assembly of nanostructures larger than a single DNA origami, ultrasensitive detection, and more robust algorithmic assembly. However, existing DNA assemblies use monomers with low coordination numbers that present an effective kinetic barrier only for slow, near-reversible growth conditions. Here we introduce crisscross polymerization of elongated slat monomers that engage beyond nearest neighbors which sustains the kinetic barrier under conditions that promote fast, irreversible growth. By implementing crisscross slats as single-stranded DNA, we attain strictly seed-initiated nucleation of crisscross ribbons with distinct widths and twists.

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PolymerizationActin CytoskeletonActinsCytoskeletonDNADNA, Single-StrandedKineticsMicrotubulesActinsDNADNA, Single-Stranded

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PMID33741912
PMCPMC7979912

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