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Design and Synthesis of a Reconfigurable DNA Accordion Rack
Published on: August 15, 2018
Positional photocleavage control of DNA-based nanoswitches
Allen K Mok1, Nancy A Kedzierski, Paul N Chung
1California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Department of Chemistry, 3801 W Temple Avenue, Pomona, CA 91768, USA.
Abstract:
DNA-based switches are currently operated by manual solution-phase addition of 'set-strands'. We demonstrate another operation method-sterically inaccessible 'set-strands', released from a surface into solution by spatially controlled photocleavage. This technique will enable microarrays of set-strands to operate many DNA-based switches in self-contained computational and diagnostic devices.

