Volume 33, Issue 5 pp. 522-526
Communication

Self-assembly of Micrometer-long DNA Nanoribbons with Four Oligonucleotides

Jie Chao

Corresponding Author

Jie Chao

Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China

Division of Physical Biology, and Bioimaging Center, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, CAS Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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Xiangyuan Ouyang

Xiangyuan Ouyang

Division of Physical Biology, and Bioimaging Center, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, CAS Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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Hongzhen Peng

Hongzhen Peng

Division of Physical Biology, and Bioimaging Center, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, CAS Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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Shao Su

Corresponding Author

Shao Su

Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China

Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, ChinaSearch for more papers by this author
Lianhui Wang

Lianhui Wang

Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China

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First published: 05 May 2015
Citations: 3

Abstract

DNA nanostructures have found widespread applications in areas including nanoelectronics and biomedicine. However, traditional DNA origami needs a long single-stranded virus DNA and hundreds of short DNA strands, which make this method complicated and money-consuming. Here, we present a protocol for the assembly of DNA nanoribbons with only four oligonucleotides. DNA nanoribbons with different dimensions were successfully assembled with a 96-base scafford strand and three short staples. These biotinylated nanoribbons could also be decorated with streptavidins. This approach suggests that there exist great design spaces for the creation of simple nucleic acid nanostructures which could facilitate their application in plasmonic or drug delivery.

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