Allostery in its many disguises: from theory to applications

SJ Wodak, E Paci, NV Dokholyan, IN Berezovsky… - Structure, 2019 - cell.com
Allosteric regulation plays an important role in many biological processes, such as signal
transduction, transcriptional regulation, and metabolism. Allostery is rooted in the …

Dynamic DNA nanotechnology: toward functional nanoscale devices

M DeLuca, Z Shi, CE Castro, G Arya - Nanoscale Horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Dynamic DNA nanotechnology involves the creation of nanoscale devices made of DNA
whose primary function arises from their ability to undergo controlled motion or …

Programmable and multifunctional DNA‐based materials for biomedical applications

Y Zhang, J Tu, D Wang, H Zhu, SK Maity… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
DNA encodes the genetic information; recently, it has also become a key player in material
science. Given the specific Watson–Crick base‐pairing interactions between only four types …

DNA assembly‐based stimuli‐responsive systems

S Lu, J Shen, C Fan, Q Li, X Yang - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli‐responsive designs with exogenous stimuli enable remote and reversible control of
DNA nanostructures, which break many limitations of static nanostructures and inspired …

Dynamism of supramolecular DNA/RNA nanoarchitectonics: from interlocked structures to molecular machines

X Liang, L Li, J Tang, M Komiyama… - Bulletin of the Chemical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In order to fabricate highly sophisticated nanostructures, various research fields must be
fused into one unified concept. In recently emerging nanoarchitectonics, nanotechnology is …

Programmable DNA switches and their applications

SG Harroun, C Prévost-Tremblay, D Lauzon… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
DNA switches are ideally suited for numerous nanotechnological applications, and
increasing efforts are being directed toward their engineering. In this review, we discuss how …

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 …

Dissipative operation of pH-responsive DNA-based nanodevices

D Mariottini, D Del Giudice, G Ercolani… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We demonstrate here the use of 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-2-cyanopropanoic acid (CPA) and
nitroacetic acid (NAA) as convenient chemical fuels to drive the dissipative operation of DNA …

Stimuli-responsive three-dimensional DNA nanomachines engineered by controlling dynamic interactions at biomolecule-nanoparticle interfaces

P Yang, R Zhou, C Kong, L Fan, C Dong, J Chen… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Stimuli-responsive nanomachines are attractive tools for biosensing, imaging, and drug
delivery. Herein, we demonstrate that the orientation of macromolecules and subsequent …

Programing chemical communication: allostery vs multivalent mechanism

D Lauzon, A Vallée-Bélisle - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The emergence of life has relied on chemical communication and the ability to integrate
multiple chemical inputs into a specific output. Two mechanisms are typically employed by …