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Polyamide Struts for DNA Architectures

Thorsten L. Schmidt, Chayan Kanti Nandi, Goran Rasched, Partha Pratim Parui, Bernd Brutschy, Michael Famulok, Alexander Heckel

Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2007 · 42 citations · 15 references

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Abstract

Copy and paste: A DNA strut consisting of two Dervan polyamides is constructed with two sides that can sequence-selectively bind double-stranded DNA. This strut can be used as sequence-selective glue for DNA architectures and can easily combine DNA objects that are 100 times its mass.

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