Volume 135, Issue 2 e202214698
Forschungsartikel

Programming Non-Nucleic Acid Molecules into Computational Nucleic Acid Systems

Qiu-Long Zhang

Qiu-Long Zhang

MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Yang Wang

Yang Wang

MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

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Liang-Liang Wang

Liang-Liang Wang

MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

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Fan Xie

Fan Xie

MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

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Ruo-Yue Wu

Ruo-Yue Wu

MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

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Xu-Yang Ma

Xu-Yang Ma

MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

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Han Li

Han Li

MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

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Yan Liu

Yan Liu

MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

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Prof. Shunchun Yao

Corresponding Author

Prof. Shunchun Yao

School of Electric Power Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641 China

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Prof. Liang Xu

Corresponding Author

Prof. Liang Xu

MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

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First published: 14 November 2022
Citations: 1

Abstract

Nucleic acid (NA) computation has been widely developed in the past years to solve kinds of logic and mathematic issues in both information technologies and biomedical analysis. However, the difficulty to integrate non-NA molecules limits its power as a universal platform for molecular computation. Here, we report a versatile prototype of hybridized computation integrated with both nucleic acids and non-NA molecules. Employing the conformationally controlled ligand converters, we demonstrate that non-NA molecules, including both small molecules and proteins, can be computed as nucleic acid strands to construct the circuitry with increased complexity and scalability, and can be even programmed to solve arithmetical calculations within the computational nucleic acid system. This study opens a new door for molecular computation in which all-NA circuits can be expanded with integration of various ligands, and meanwhile, ligands can be precisely programmed by the nuclei acid computation.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Data Availability Statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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