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ArticleBioconjugate chemistry2023

Break to Build: Isothermal Assembly of Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles (NANPs)

Damian Beasock, Anh Ha, Justin Halman, Martin Panigaj, Jian Wang, Nikolay V Dokholyan, Kirill A Afonin

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Article in Bioconjugate chemistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Isothermal assembly of DNA nanostructures.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Damian BeasockNanoscale Science Program, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, United States.
Anh HaNanoscale Science Program, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, United States.
Justin HalmanNanoscale Science Program, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, United States.
Martin PanigajNanoscale Science Program, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, United States.
Jian WangDepartment of Pharmacology, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7768-2802
Nikolay V DokholyanDepartment of Pharmacology, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8225-4025
Kirill A AfoninNanoscale Science Program, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6917-3183
University of North Carolina at Charlotte · USPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · US

Funding

Penn State Clinical and Translational Science InstituteUL1TR002014 · NCATS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI KRASCHNEWSKI, JENNIFER L. · 2016 to 2025
$33.7M
Nanoscale programming of cellular and physiological phenotypes: EquipmentR35GM134864 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI Nikolay Dokholyan · 2020 to 2026
$5.2M
SMART NANPs: new molecular platform for communication with human immune system and modulation of therapeutic responsesR35GM139587 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE · PI AFONIN, KIRILL A · 2021 to 2025
$1.8M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002014NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM134864NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM139587
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intrinsic properties of RNA and DNA biopolymers emphasized by engineered nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) offer accelerated development of next-generation therapies. The rational design of NANPs facilitates programmable architectures intended for regulated molecular and cellular interactions. The conventional bottom-up assembly of NANPs relies on the thermal annealing of individual strands. Here, we introduce a concept of nuclease-driven production of NANPs where selective digestion of functionally inert structures leads to isothermal self-assembly of liberated constituents. The working principles, morphological changes, assembly kinetics, and the retention of structural integrity for system components subjected to anhydrous processing and storage are assessed. We show that the assembly of precursors into a single structure improves stoichiometry and enhances the functionality of nuclease-driven products. Furthermore, the experiments with immune reporting cell lines show that the developed protocols retain the immunostimulatory functionality of tested NANPs. The presented approach enables exploitation of the advantages of conditionally produced NANPs and demonstrates that NANPs' stability, immunorecognition, and assembly can be regulated to allow for a more robust functional system.

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NanoparticlesNucleic AcidsCell LineDNANucleic Acid ConformationRNADNANucleic AcidsRNA

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PMID37293781
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