Heather R Everson, Kayla Neyra, Dylan V Scarton, Soumya Chandrasekhar, Christopher M Green, Thorsten-Lars Schmidt, Igor L Medintz, Remi Veneziano, Divita Mathur
The number of applications of self-assembled deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) origami nanoparticles (DNA NPs) has increased drastically, following the development of a variety of single-stranded template DNA (ssDNA) that can serve as the scaffold strand. In addition to viral genomes, such as M13 bacteriophage and lambda DNAs, enzymatically produced ssDNA from various template sources is rapidly gaining traction and being applied as the scaffold for DNA NP preparation. However, separating fully formed DNA NPs that have custom scaffolds from crude assembly mixes is often a multistep process of first separating the ssDNA scaffold from its enzymatic amplification process and then isolating the assembled DNA NPs from excess precursor strands...
April 18, 2024: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces