A DNA Wheel
by LAL-LAL Inc.
on Sketchfab
RESIDENTS:DNA-ORIGAMI
“Designer nanoscale DNA assemblies programmed from the top down”
Veneziano et al., Science 352: 1354- (2016)
DNA Origami is a new type of nanotechnology. DNA, a fibrous molecule carrying genetic information, is used as a building material to construct nanostructures such as 2D patterns and 3D solids. There are several ways to construct, but all rely on the unique property of DNA that forms specific base-pairing between two strands. Once all DNA fragments are prepared, they precisely self-assemble into a shape. In this paper, a program to design DNA origami is reported, in which the sequence information for the DNA fragments are readily obtained by simply entering 3D data of your desired shape. Interestingly, 3D data are once converted into a graph to compute the assignments. Presented here is a pentagonal bipyramid, one of the shapes demonstrated in the paper. It looked like a wheel under an atomic force microscope.
ROOM NO.:V7[4552]F10[310]
Pentagonal bipyramid