Supramolecular 1-D polymerization of DNA origami through a dynamic process at the 2-dimensionally confined air-water interface

Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2016 May 14;18(18):12576-81. doi: 10.1039/c6cp01586g. Epub 2016 Apr 19.

Abstract

In this study, a Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) system has been utilized for the regulation of polymerization of a DNA origami structure at the air-water interface as a two-dimensionally confined medium, which enables dynamic condensation of DNA origami units through variation of the film area at the macroscopic level (ca. 10-100 cm(2)). DNA origami sheets were conjugated with a cationic lipid (dioctadecyldimethylammonium bromide, 2C18N(+)) by electrostatic interaction and the corresponding LB-film was prepared. By applying dynamic pressure variation through compression-expansion processes, the lipid-modified DNA origami sheets underwent anisotropic polymerization forming a one-dimensionally assembled belt-shaped structure of a high aspect ratio although the thickness of the polymerized DNA origami was maintained at the unimolecular level. This approach opens up a new field of mechanical induction of the self-assembly of DNA origami structures.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anisotropy
  • DNA / chemistry*
  • Microscopy, Atomic Force
  • Nanostructures / chemistry*
  • Nanostructures / ultrastructure*
  • Nanotechnology / methods
  • Nucleic Acid Conformation
  • Polymerization
  • Quaternary Ammonium Compounds / chemistry
  • Static Electricity
  • Water / chemistry

Substances

  • Quaternary Ammonium Compounds
  • Water
  • dimethyldioctadecylammonium
  • DNA