Nucleic Acid Engineering: RNA Following the Trail of DNA

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• 作者：Hyejin Kim ; Yongkuk Park ; Jieun Kim ; Jaepil Jeong ; Sangwoo Han ; Jae Sung Lee ; Jong Bum Lee
• 刊名：ACS Combinatorial Science
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 8, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：18
• 期：2
• 页码：87-99
• 全文大小：831K
• ISSN：2156-8944

文摘

The self-assembly feature of the naturally occurring biopolymer, DNA, has fascinated researchers in the fields of materials science and bioengineering. With the improved understanding of the chemical and structural nature of DNA, DNA-based constructs have been designed and fabricated from two-dimensional arbitrary shapes to reconfigurable three-dimensional nanodevices. Although DNA has been used successfully as a building block in a finely organized and controlled manner, its applications need to be explored. Hence, with the myriad of biological functions, RNA has recently attracted considerable attention to further the application of nucleic acid-based structures. This Review categorizes different approaches of engineering nucleic acid-based structures and introduces the concepts, principles, and applications of each technique, focusing on how DNA engineering is applied as a guide to RNA engineering.