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Facile and Scalable Preparation of Pure and Dense DNA Origami Solutions**

DNA has become a prime material for assembling complex three-dimensional objects that promise utility in various areas of application. However, achieving user-defined goals with DNA objects has been hampered by the difficulty to prepare them at arbitrary concentrations and in user-defined solution c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Stahl, Evi, Martin, Thomas G, Praetorius, Florian, Dietz, Hendrik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: WILEY-VCH Verlag 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4253120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25346175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201405991
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Sumario:DNA has become a prime material for assembling complex three-dimensional objects that promise utility in various areas of application. However, achieving user-defined goals with DNA objects has been hampered by the difficulty to prepare them at arbitrary concentrations and in user-defined solution conditions. Here, we describe a method that solves this problem. The method is based on poly(ethylene glycol)-induced depletion of species with high molecular weight. We demonstrate that our method is applicable to a wide spectrum of DNA shapes and that it achieves excellent recovery yields of target objects up to 97 %, while providing efficient separation from non-integrated DNA strands. DNA objects may be prepared at concentrations up to the limit of solubility, including the possibility for bringing DNA objects into a solid phase. Due to the fidelity and simplicity of our method we anticipate that it will help to catalyze the development of new types of applications that use self-assembled DNA objects.