title: Programming DNA tube circumferences.
abstract: Synthesizing molecular tubes with monodisperse, programmable circumferences is an important goal shared by nanotechnology, materials science, and supermolecular chemistry. We program molecular tube circumferences by specifying the complementarity relationships between modular domains in a 42-base single-stranded DNA motif. Single-step annealing results in the self-assembly of long tubes displaying monodisperse circumferences of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, or 20 DNA helices.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. py@caltech.edu
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Rizal F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Hariadi
authors.forename: Sudheer
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sahu
authors.forename: Harry M T
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Sung Ha
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Thomas H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Labean
authors.forename: John H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Reif
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded / Q000737:chemistry*; D018625:Microscopy, Atomic Force; D036103:Nanotechnology; D043942:Nanotubes; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation
chemical_list: D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D004247:DNA