Self‐Assembled Artificial DNA Nanocompartments and Their Bioapplications

Abstract: Compartmentalization is the strategy evolved by nature to control reactions in space and time. The ability to emulate this strategy through synthetic compartmentalization systems has rapidly evolved in the past years, accompanied by an increasing understanding of the effects of spatial confinement on the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the guest molecules. DNA nanotechnology has played a pivotal role in this scientific endeavor and is still one of the most promising approaches for the construction of nanocompartments with programmable structural features and nanometer‐scaled addressability. In this review, the design approaches, bioapplications, and theoretical frameworks of self‐assembled DNA nanocompartments are surveyed. From DNA polyhedral cages to virus‐like capsules, the construction principles of such intriguing architectures are illustrated. Various applications of DNA nanocompartments, including their use for programmable enzyme scaffolding, single‐molecule studies, biosensing, and as artificial nanofactories, ending with an ample description of DNA nanocages for biomedical purposes, are then reported. Finally, the theoretical hypotheses that make DNA nanocompartments, and nanosystems in general, a topic of great interest in modern science, are described and the progresses that have been done until now in the comprehension of the peculiar phenomena that occur within nanosized environments are summarized.

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

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Self‐Assembled Artificial DNA Nanocompartments and Their Bioapplications ; day:01 ; month:07 ; year:2022 ; extent:29
Small ; (01.07.2022) (gesamt 29)

Urheber
Huang, Jing
Gambietz, Sabrina
Saccà, Barbara

DOI
10.1002/smll.202202253
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022070215042876319524
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15.08.2025, 07:27 MESZ

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  • Huang, Jing
  • Gambietz, Sabrina
  • Saccà, Barbara

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