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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c10928
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This article presents a method for designing aptamer switches with improved thermal robustness and programmability, using toehold-exchange as a general framework. Experimental results demonstrate that this method not only enhances the thermal stability of aptamer switches, but also improves their analytical performances and programmability.
Aptamer switches are attractive nature-inspired tools for developing smart materials and nanodevices. However, the thermal robustness and programmability of current aptamer switches are often limited by their activation processes that are coupled with high reaction enthalpy. Here, we present an enthalpy-independent activation approach that harnesses toehold-exchange as a general framework to design aptamer switches. We demonstrate mathematically and experimentally that this approach is highly effective in improving thermal robustness and thus leads to better analytical performances of aptamer switches. Enhanced programmability is also demonstrated through fine-grained and dynamic tuning of effective affinities and dynamic ranges, as well as the construction of a synthetic DNA network that resembled biological signaling cascades. Our study not only enriches the current toolbox for engineering and controlling synthetic molecular switches but also offers new insights into their thermodynamic basis, which is critical for diverse synthetic biological designs and applications.
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