期刊
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
卷 12, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app12125875
关键词
DNA nanotechnology; DNA origami; free-energy landscape; molecular dynamics; coarse-grained modelling; umbrella sampling
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资金
- Croucher Foundation
Molecular simulations using coarse-grained models provide insights into the structure, dynamics, and mechanics of DNA origamis. In this study, the focus is on the free-energy landscape of a jointed DNA origami, where the predicted results differ from experimental observations, possibly due to assembly defects affecting the ensemble of structures.
Molecular simulations using coarse-grained models allow the structure, dynamics and mechanics of DNA origamis to be comprehensively characterized. Here, we focus on the free-energy landscape of a jointed DNA origami that has been designed to exhibit two mechanically stable states and for which a bistable landscape has been inferred from ensembles of structures visualized by electron microscopy. Surprisingly, simulations using the oxDNA model predict that the defect-free origami has a single free-energy minimum. The expected second state is not stable because the hinge joints do not simply allow free angular motion but instead lead to increasing free-energetic penalties as the joint angles relevant to the second state are approached. This raises interesting questions about the cause of this difference between simulations and experiment, such as how assembly defects might affect the ensemble of structures observed experimentally.
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