Issue 7, 2016
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Nanoscale

A switchable DNA origami nanochannel for regulating molecular transport at the nanometer scale†

Dianming Wang,a   Yiyang Zhang,a   Miao Wang,a   Yuanchen Dong,a   Chao Zhou,a   Mark Antonin Isbell,a   Zhongqiang Yang,a   Huajie Liub  and  Dongsheng Liu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
E-mail: liudongsheng@tsinghua.edu

b Laboratory of Physical Biology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

Abstract

A nanochannel with a shutter at one end was built by DNA nanotechnology. Using DNA hybridization the shutter could be opened or closed, influencing the transport of materials through the channel. This process was visualized by an enzyme cascade reaction occurring in the structure.

Graphical abstract: A switchable DNA origami nanochannel for regulating molecular transport at the nanometer scale

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5NR08206D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
20 Nov 2015
Accepted
25 Jan 2016
First published
26 Jan 2016

Nanoscale, 2016,8, 3944-3948

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A switchable DNA origami nanochannel for regulating molecular transport at the nanometer scale

D. Wang, Y. Zhang, M. Wang, Y. Dong, C. Zhou, M. A. Isbell, Z. Yang, H. Liu and D. Liu, Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 3944 DOI: 10.1039/C5NR08206D

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