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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2026

DNA Assembly Templated by Chiral Nanotube Lattices: From Helix to Rings.

Ravi R Sonani, Ali A Alizadehmojarad, Nathaniel Hurley, Joshua Hihath, Michael S Strano, Edward H Egelman, Ming Zheng

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Ravi R SonaniDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6212-2869
Ali A AlizadehmojaradDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6806-5415
Nathaniel HurleyMaterials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States.
Joshua HihathCenter for Bioelectronics and Biosensors, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2949-9293
Michael S StranoDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2944-808X
Edward H EgelmanDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4844-5212
Ming ZhengMaterials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8058-1348

Funding

Cryo-EM of Helical Protein and Nucleoprotein Polymers at Near Atomic ResolutionR35GM122510 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI EDWARD H. EGELMAN · 2017 to 2026
$7.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122510
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Controlled assembly of DNA expands its utility in materials science. Most DNA-based architectures rely on Watson-Crick base pairing and stacking. Identifying additional programmable interactions could widen the design space. Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) is known to adsorb on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as sequence- and chirality-dependent helices, but direct structural evidence for a nanotube lattice-templating mechanism has been limited. Here we use cryo-electron microscopy to compare the assembly of the ssDNA sequence TTA TAT TAT ATT (ss65) on enantiomeric (6,5) CNTs. On the left-handed (+) (6,5) CNT, ss65 forms stacked, ring-like wraps with an axial repeat of 15.3 Å and with micrometer-scale coherence length. In contrast, on the right-handed (-) (6,5) CNT, ss65 adopts a conventional 1-start helical wrap with a helical pitch of ∼16.4 Å. These results indicate that the handedness of the underlying chiral lattice can bias ssDNA into distinct topologies (helix versus rings) and suggest a strategy for DNA assembly based on CNT lattice recognition, in addition to base pairing and stacking.

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DNADNA, Single-StrandedNanotubes, CarbonCryoelectron MicroscopyModels, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationStereoisomerismDNADNA, Single-StrandedNanotubes, Carbon

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PMID42149710
PMCPMC13244465

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