Issue 16, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Molecular engineering of photoresponsive three-dimensional DNA nanostructures†

Da Han,a   Jin Huang,ab   Zhi Zhu,a   Quan Yuan,a   Mingxu You,a   Yan Chenab  and  Weihong Tan*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Center for Research at Bio/nano Interface, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, Shands Cancer Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

b State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Biology and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, P.R. China
E-mail: tan@chem.ufl.edu
Fax: +86 352 846 2410

Abstract

This study demonstrates the use of azobenzene-incorporated DNA as a control agent to precisely monitor three-dimensional DNA nanostructures. The shape of a DNA tetrahedron can be controlled by alternate irradiations with different wavelengths of light.

Graphical abstract: Molecular engineering of photoresponsive three-dimensional DNA nanostructures

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC10893J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Feb 2011
Accepted
28 Feb 2011
First published
15 Mar 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 4670-4672

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Molecular engineering of photoresponsive three-dimensional DNA nanostructures

D. Han, J. Huang, Z. Zhu, Q. Yuan, M. You, Y. Chen and W. Tan, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 4670 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC10893J

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