Three-dimensional organization of block copolymers on "DNA-minimal" scaffolds |
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Authors: | McLaughlin Christopher K Hamblin Graham D Hänni Kevin D Conway Justin W Nayak Manoj K Carneiro Karina M M Bazzi Hassan S Sleiman Hanadi F |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry and Center for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (CSACS), McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H3A-2K6, Canada. |
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Abstract: | Here, we introduce a 3D-DNA construction method that assembles a minimum number of DNA strands in quantitative yield, to give a scaffold with a large number of single-stranded arms. This DNA frame is used as a core structure to organize other functional materials in 3D as the shell. We use the ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) to generate block copolymers that are covalently attached to DNA strands. Site-specific hybridization of these DNA-polymer chains on the single-stranded arms of the 3D-DNA scaffold gives efficient access to DNA-block copolymer cages. These biohybrid cages possess polymer chains that are programmably positioned in three dimensions on a DNA core and display increased nuclease resistance as compared to unfunctionalized DNA cages. |
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