DNA duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry
Biomolecules
2013-04-09 v2
Abstract
A construction method for duplex cage structures with icosahedral sym- metry made out of single-stranded DNA molecules is presented and applied to an icosidodecahedral cage. It is shown via a mixture of analytic and computer techniques that there exist realisations of this graph in terms of two circular DNA molecules. These blueprints for the organisation of a cage structure with a noncrystallographic symmetry may assist in the design of containers made from DNA for applications in nanotechnology.
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@article{arxiv.0711.4344,
title = {DNA duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry},
author = {N. E. Grayson and A. Taormina and R. Twarock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.4344},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
13 pages, LaTex, 9 figures; focus on vertex junctions that are experimentally realizable, some figures upgraded, some removed