Abstract
Designed strands of DNA were used to construct a nanomachine with the appearance of a pair of scissors. Further strands of DNA were then employed to close and reopen the handles of the scissors with resultant closing and reopening of the jaws with a change in angle of 10°. It was further shown that it is possible to open the handles wider than their equilibrium position, with resultant widening of the jaws.
Keywords
- Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
- Dime Structure
- Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
- Branch Migration
- Borromean Ring
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Mitchell, J.C., Yurke, B. (2002). DNA Scissors. In: Jonoska, N., Seeman, N.C. (eds) DNA Computing. DNA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2340. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48017-X_24
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