Self-assembled DNA-nanostructure tools for molecular biophysics

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• William Shih, Harvard Medical School
• Monday 25 July 2011, 16:15-18:00
• Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

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Our group previously solved a key challenge for nanotechnology: programmable self-assembly of complex, three-dimensional nanostructures. Our solution was to build custom three-dimensional structures that can be conceived as stacks of nearly flat layers of DNA . I will discuss applications of this technology for molecular biophysics: (1) weak-alignment media for NMR structure determination of membrane proteins such as UCP2 , a 30 kDa six-transmembrane helix mitochondrial proton transporter; (2) scaffolds for determining the number of SNARE complexes required for lipid-bilayer fusion; (3) artificial actin filaments built as chimeras between protein and DNA for dissecting the mechanism of movement by processive myosin bipedal walkers.

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