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MIT biological engineers
have created a new computer model that allows them to design the most complex
three-dimensional DNA shapes ever produced, including rings, bowls, and
geometric structures such as icosahedrons that resemble viral particles.
“The general idea is to spatially organize proteins, chromophores, RNAs, and nanoparticles with nanometer-scale precision using DNA. The precise nanometer-scale control that we have over 3-D architecture is what is centrally unique in this approach,” says Bathe, the senior author of a paper describing the new design approach in the Dec. 3 issue of Nature Communications.
Source and further reading:
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/computer-model-for-complex-dna-shapes-1203
“The general idea is to spatially organize proteins, chromophores, RNAs, and nanoparticles with nanometer-scale precision using DNA. The precise nanometer-scale control that we have over 3-D architecture is what is centrally unique in this approach,” says Bathe, the senior author of a paper describing the new design approach in the Dec. 3 issue of Nature Communications.
Source and further reading:
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/computer-model-for-complex-dna-shapes-1203
corina marinescu
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