Nucleic acid paranemic structures: a promising building block for functional nanomaterials in biomedical and bionanotechnological applications
Nucleic acid paranemic structures: a promising building block for functional nanomaterials in biomedical and bionanotechnological applications
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核酸副贫血结构:生物医学和生物纳米技术应用中功能纳米材料的有前景的构建模块
DOI:
10.1039/d2tb00605g
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发表时间:
2022
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7
通讯作者:
Zhang, Fei
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作者:
Lee, Jung Yeon;Yang, Qi;Chang, Xu;Wisniewski, Henry;Olivera, Tiffany R.;Saji, Minu;Kim, Suchan;Perumal, Devanathan;Zhang, Fei
Over the past few decades, DNA has been recognized as a powerful self-assembling material capable of crafting supramolecular nanoarchitectures with quasi-angstrom precision, which promises various applications in the fields of materials science, nanoengineering, and biomedical science. Notable structural features include biocompatibility, biodegradability, high digital encodability by Watson–Crick base pairing, nanoscale dimension, and surface addressability. Bottom-up fabrication of complex DNA nanostructures relies on the design of fundamental DNA motifs, including parallel (PX) and antiparallel (AX) crossovers. However, paranemic or PX motifs have not been thoroughly explored for the construction of DNA-based nanostructures compared to AX motifs. In this review, we summarize the developments of PX-based DNA nanostructures, highlight the advantages as well as challenges of PX-based assemblies, and give an overview of the structural and chemical features that lend their utilization in a variety of applications. The works presented cover PX-based DNA nanostructures in biological systems, dynamic systems, and biomedical contexts. The possible future advances of PX structures and applications are also summarized, discussed, and postulated.