The interplay between nucleic acids and lipids underpins several key processes in
molecular biology, synthetic biotechnology, vaccine technology, and nanomedicine. These …

Nucleic acids and lipids function in close proximity in biological processes, as well as in
nanoengineered constructs for therapeutic applications. As both molecules carry a rich …

Conspectus DNA has been previously shown to be useful as a material for the fabrication of
static nanoscale objects, and also for the realization of dynamic molecular devices and …

Recent developments in DNA nanotechnology brought rich structural and functional
diversity. However, for DNA nanostructures to perform in a biologically relevant context …

Lipid-anchored DNA can attach functional cargo to bilayer membranes in DNA
nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and cell biology research. To optimize DNA anchoring …

DNA nanotechnology allows for the design of programmable DNA-built nanodevices which
controllably interact with biological membranes and even mimic the function of natural …

DNA nanotechnology has proven exceptionally apt at probing and manipulating biological
environments as it can create nanostructures of almost arbitrary shape that permit countless …

Divalent cations, ie, calcium, magnesium, and others, are able to enhance the ability of DNA
to interact with membranes that are composed of zwitterionic lipids such as …

Interaction of DNA with zwitterionic phospholipids is an important long-standing problem in
the field of liposome-based gene delivery. Although it is well-established that divalent …

Self-assembled DNA delivery systems based on anionic lipids (ALs) complexed with DNA
mediated by divalent cations have been recently introduced as an alternative to cationic lipid …