ATP-powered molecular recognition to engineer transient multivalency and self-sorting 4D hierarchical systems

There is interest in creating life-like behaviours in synthetic multicomponent systems. Here, the authors report on a modular DNA toolbox able to create transient, dynamic structures using ATP-driven molecular recognition in which multiple systems can run in parallel and across hierarchies.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jie Deng, Andreas Walther
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17479-9