Functionalizing DNA origami to investigate and interact with biological systems

GA Knappe, EC Wamhoff, M Bathe - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
DNA origami has emerged as a powerful method to generate DNA nanostructures with
dynamic properties and nanoscale control. These nanostructures enable complex …

DNA Origami: From Molecular Folding Art to Drug Delivery Technology

Q Jiang, Y Shang, Y Xie, B Ding - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
DNA molecules that store genetic information in living creatures can be repurposed as
building blocks to construct artificial architectures, ranging from the nanoscale to the …

Functional DNA as a Molecular Tool in Regulating Immunoreceptor–Ligand Interactions

L Sun, F Shen, Y Qu, Z Liu - Jacs Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
During immune responses, activating ligands would trigger dynamic spatiotemporal
organization of immunoreceptors at the cell interface, governing the fate and effector …

Recent advances in DNA origami-engineered nanomaterials and applications

P Zhan, A Peil, Q Jiang, D Wang, S Mousavi… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
DNA nanotechnology is a unique field, where physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics,
engineering, and materials science can elegantly converge. Since the original proposal of …

Polydopamine nanosphere@ silver nanoclusters for fluorescence detection of multiplex tumor markers

Y Jiang, Y Tang, P Miao - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
There is an increasing demand to establish a convenient and stable analytical methodology
for screening multiplex tumor markers in early diagnosis of cancers. In this work, an …

Single-molecular catalysis identifying activation energy of the intermediate product and rate-limiting step in plasmonic photocatalysis

W Li, J Miao, T Peng, H Lv, JG Wang, K Li, Y Zhu… - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Plasmon-mediated photocatalysis provides a novel strategy for harvesting solar energy.
Identification of the rate-determining step and its activation energy in plasmon-mediated …

Intelligent probabilistic system for digital tracing cellular origin of individual clinical extracellular vesicles

X Xiao, K Wu, A Yan, JG Wang, Z Zhang… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small vesicles secreted by various cell types to mediate cell-
to-cell communication through the transfer of macromolecules. EVs carry multiple cargo …

Emerging applications at the interface of DNA nanotechnology and cellular membranes: Perspectives from biology, engineering, and physics

W Wang, DS Arias, M Deserno, X Ren… - APL bioengineering, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
DNA nanotechnology has proven exceptionally apt at probing and manipulating biological
environments as it can create nanostructures of almost arbitrary shape that permit countless …

Visualizing enzyme catalytic process using single-molecule techniques

H Wang, C Zhu, D Li - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The appearance of single-molecule techniques brings rapidly developed research on
enzymology. The study of single-molecule enzymology excavates the individual behavior of …

Development and application of an efficient medium for chromogenic catalysis of tetramethylbenzidine with horseradish peroxidase

M Li, H Su, Y Tu, Y Shang, Y Liu, C Peng, H Liu - ACS Omega, 2019 - ACS Publications
The alkylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquids (ILs)([C n mim][BF4] n= 2, 4, 6, 8, 10) and
anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) were combined together to produce …