Dissipative DNA nanotechnology

E Del Grosso, E Franco, LJ Prins, F Ricci - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
DNA nanotechnology has emerged as a powerful tool to precisely design and control
molecular circuits, machines and nanostructures. A major goal in this field is to build devices …

Triplex DNA nanostructures: from basic properties to applications

Y Hu, A Cecconello, A Idili, F Ricci… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Triplex nucleic acids have recently attracted interest as part of the rich “toolbox” of structures
used to develop DNA‐based nanostructures and materials. This Review addresses the use …

Stimuli‐responsive nucleic acid‐based polyacrylamide hydrogel‐coated metal–organic framework nanoparticles for controlled drug release

WH Chen, WC Liao, YS Sohn, M Fadeev… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis of doxorubicin‐loaded metal–organic framework nanoparticles (NMOFs)
coated with a stimuli‐responsive nucleic acid‐based polyacrylamide hydrogel is described …

Duplexed aptamers: history, design, theory, and application to biosensing

JD Munzar, A Ng, D Juncker - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Nucleic acid aptamers are single stranded DNA or RNA sequences that specifically bind a
cognate ligand. In addition to their widespread use as stand-alone affinity binding reagents …

DNA nanotechnology‐based biosensors and therapeutics

L Shen, P Wang, Y Ke - Advanced healthcare materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past few decades, DNA nanotechnology engenders a vast variety of programmable
nanostructures utilizing Watson–Crick base pairing. Due to their precise engineering …

Self-sensing enzyme-powered micromotors equipped with pH-responsive DNA nanoswitches

T Patino, A Porchetta, A Jannasch, A Lladó… - Nano Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Biocatalytic micro-and nanomotors have emerged as a new class of active matter self-
propelled through enzymatic reactions. The incorporation of functional nanotools could …

Engineering aptamer switches for multifunctional stimulus‐responsive nanosystems

AE Rangel, AA Hariri, M Eisenstein… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although RNA and DNA are best known for their capacity to encode biological information, it
has become increasingly clear over the past few decades that these biomolecules are also …

Peptide nucleic acid (PNA)‐guided peptide engineering of an aptamer sensor for protease‐triggered molecular imaging

Z Xiang, J Zhao, D Yi, Z Di, L Li - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Protease‐triggered control of functional DNA has remained unachieved, leaving a
significant gap in activatable DNA biotechnology. Herein, we report the design of a protease …

DNA assembly‐based stimuli‐responsive systems

S Lu, J Shen, C Fan, Q Li, X Yang - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli‐responsive designs with exogenous stimuli enable remote and reversible control of
DNA nanostructures, which break many limitations of static nanostructures and inspired …

Dissipative gated and cascaded DNA networks

Z Zhou, Y Ouyang, J Wang, I Willner - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nucleic acid based, out-of-equilibrium, dissipative networks driven by nucleic acid fuels
coupled to the nicking enzyme, Nt. BbvCI, are presented. One set of experiments includes a …