title: Symmetry controls the face geometry of DNA polyhedra.
abstract: Two complementary strategies have been developed to control the face geometry during the self-assembly of DNA polyhedra from branched DNA nanomotifs (tiles). In these approaches, any two interacting tiles are not equivalent in terms of either sequence or orientation; thus, each face must contain an even number of tiles. As a demonstration, DNA cubes, whose each face contains four tiles, have been assembled through these approaches.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Markey Center for Structural Biology and Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.
authors.forename: Chuan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Seung Hyeon
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Yujun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Leng
authors.forename: Alexander E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Ribbe
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Chengde
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mao
mesh_terms: D020285:Cryoelectron Microscopy; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation
chemical_list: D004247:DNA