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ArticleNature chemistry2021

RNA origami design tools enable cotranscriptional folding of kilobase-sized nanoscaffolds.

Cody Geary, Guido Grossi, Ewan K S McRae, Paul W K Rothemund, Ebbe S Andersen

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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57 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Cody GearyInterdisciplinary Nanoscience Center and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2083-4259
Guido GrossiInterdisciplinary Nanoscience Center and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1936-8676
Ewan K S McRaeInterdisciplinary Nanoscience Center and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9105-2575
Paul W K RothemundBioengineering, Computing + Mathematical Sciences, and Computation & Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. pwkr@dna.caltech.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1653-3202
Ebbe S AndersenInterdisciplinary Nanoscience Center and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. esa@inano.au.dk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6236-8164

Funding

European Research Council 683305
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA origami is a framework for the modular design of nanoscaffolds that can be folded from a single strand of RNA and used to organize molecular components with nanoscale precision. The design of genetically expressible RNA origami, which must fold cotranscriptionally, requires modelling and design tools that simultaneously consider thermodynamics, the folding pathway, sequence constraints and pseudoknot optimization. Here, we describe RNA Origami Automated Design software (ROAD), which builds origami models from a library of structural modules, identifies potential folding barriers and designs optimized sequences. Using ROAD, we extend the scale and functional diversity of RNA scaffolds, creating 32 designs of up to 2,360 nucleotides, five that scaffold two proteins, and seven that scaffold two small molecules at precise distances. Micrographic and chromatographic comparisons of optimized and non-optimized structures validate that our principles for strand routing and sequence design substantially improve yield. By providing efficient design of RNA origami, ROAD may simplify the construction of custom RNA scaffolds for nanomedicine and synthetic biology.

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RNA FoldingBase SequenceMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionNanostructuresNanotechnologyProtein BiosynthesisRNASmall Molecule LibrariesSoftwareSynthetic BiologyRNASmall Molecule Libraries

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PMCPMC7610888

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