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Thorsten L Schmidt1, Alexander Heckel.
Abstract
Topologically interlocked structures like catenanes and rotaxanes are promising components for the construction of molecular machines and motors. Herein we describe the construction of double-stranded DNA catenanes for DNA nanotechnology. For this, C-shaped DNA minicircle fragments were equipped with sequence-specific DNA-binding polyamides and their respective binding site. Formation of catenanes is achieved by self-assembly of two of these fragments and subsequent addition of a ring-closing oligonucleotide.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21410245 DOI: 10.1021/nl200303m
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nano Lett ISSN: 1530-6984 Impact factor: 11.189