作者: Armando Hernandez-Garcia , Nicole A. Estrich , Marc W. T. Werten , Johan R. C. Van Der Maarel , Thomas H. LaBean
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摘要: Emerging DNA-based nanotechnologies would benefit from the ability to modulate properties (e.g., solubility, melting temperature, chemical stability) of diverse DNA templates (single molecules or origami nanostructures) through controlled, self-assembling coatings. We here introduce a coating agent, called C8–BSso7d, which binds and coats with high specificity affinity, individual as well folded nanostructures. C8–BSso7d protects without condensing, collapsing destroying spatial structure underlying template. combines specific nonelectrostatic binding affinity an archeal-derived domain (Sso7d, 7 kDa) long hydrophilic random coil polypeptide (C8, 73 kDa), provides colloidal stability (solubility) formation polymer brushes around templates. is produced recombinantly in yeast has precise (but engineerable) amino acid sequence length. Using electrophor...