A robust DNA mechanical device controlled by hybridization topology

By Hao Yan, Xiaoping Zhang, Zhiyong Shen, Nadrian C. Seeman. Nature, 2002

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Ten years of tension: single-molecule DNA mechanics (2003, background): “Engineers have recently exploited the properties of DNA to construct self-assembled nanomachines, such as artificial DNA-based devices driven by strand displacemen”
Programmable materials and the nature of the DNA bond (2015, background): “One tile design that has become particularly useful in systems requiring DNA-based rotary motion is the PX molecule (paranemic crossover) (34, 35), in which crossover events occur at every possible locationwhere themajor orminor grooves of the antiparallel helical domains meet (36).”
Making molecular machines work (2006, background): “Biological motors are important components in the fabrication of dynamic smart materials, and semi-synthetic DNA-based structures have been explored in building a variety of mechanical motor-like function”
Dynamic DNA nanotechnology using strand-displacement reactions. (2011, methodology): “A first example of this was described by Yan and co-worker”