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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Design principles for accurate folding of DNA origami.

Tural Aksel, Erik J Navarro, Nicholas Fong, Shawn M Douglas

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  3. Unraveling the Folding Dynamics of DNA Origami Structures.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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Tural AkselDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology. University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143.ORCID 0000-0002-8477-557X
Erik J NavarroDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology. University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143.
Nicholas FongDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology. University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143.ORCID 0000-0002-3412-0735
Shawn M DouglasDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology. University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143.ORCID 0000-0001-5398-9041

Funding

DNA Nanostructures for High-Throughput Cryo-EM Studies of Small MacromoleculesR35GM125027 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Shawn M Douglas · 2018 to 2026
$3.8M
DNA Nanotechnology platform for high-throughput cryo-EM studies of small proteinsF32GM119322 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AKSEL, TURAL · 2016 to 2017
$119k
DOD | USN | Office of Naval Research (ONR) N00014-17-1-2627HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) F32GM119322HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R35GM125027National Science Foundation (NSF) DBI-1548297NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM119322NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM125027
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe design principles for accurate folding of three-dimensional DNA origami. To evaluate design rules, we reduced the problem of DNA strand routing to the known problem of shortest-path finding in a weighted graph. To score candidate DNA strand routes we used a thermodynamic model that accounts for enthalpic and entropic contributions of initial binding, hybridization, and DNA loop closure. We encoded and analyzed new and previously reported design heuristics. Using design principles emerging from this analysis, we redesigned and fabricated multiple shapes and compared their folding accuracy using electrophoretic mobility analysis and electron microscopy imaging. Redesigned shapes showed 6- to 30-fold improvements in yield compared to original designs. We demonstrate accurate folding can be achieved by optimizing staple routes using our model and provide a computational framework for applying our methodology to any design.

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DNANucleic Acid ConformationThermodynamicsModels, MolecularNanotechnologyDNAbiophysicsDNA nanotechnologyself-assembly

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PMID39570311
PMCPMC11621765

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