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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 135, 期 21, 页码 7967-7973出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja4018495
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资金
- National Institutes of Health [GM079359, CA133086]
- National Key Scientific Program of China [2011CB911000]
- NSFC [21221003]
- China National Instrumentation Program [2011YQ03012412]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20934004, 91127046]
- NBRPC [2012CB821500, 2010CB934500]
Strand displacement cascades are commonly used to make dynamically assembled structures. Particularly, the concept of toehold-mediated DNA branch migration reactions has attracted considerable attention in relation to dynamic DNA nanostructures. However, it is a challenge to obtain and control the formation of pure 11 ratio DNA duplexes with toehold structures. Here, for the first time, we report a photocontrolled toehold formation method, which is based on the photocleavage of 2-nitrobenzyl linker-embedded DNA hairpin precursor structures UV light irradiation (lambda approximate to 365 nm) of solutions containing these DNA hairpin structures causes the complete cleavage of the nitrobenzyl linker, and pure 11 DNA duplexes with toehold structures are easily formed. Our experimental results indicate that the amount of toehold can be controlled by simply changing the dose of UV irradiation and that the resulting toehold structures can be used for subsequent toehold mediated DNA branch migration reactions, e.g., DNA hybridization chain reactions. This newly established method will find broad application in the construction of light-powered, controllable, and dynamic DNA nanostructures or large-scale DNA circuits.
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