A synthetic enzyme built from DNA flips 107 lipids per second in biological membranes

Mimicking enzyme function and improving upon it is a challenge facing nanotechnology. Here the authors design a DNA nanostructure that catalyzes the transport of lipids between bilayers at a rate three orders of magnitude higher than biological enzymes.

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Main Authors: Alexander Ohmann, Chen-Yu Li, Christopher Maffeo, Kareem Al Nahas, Kevin N. Baumann, Kerstin Göpfrich, Jejoong Yoo, Ulrich F. Keyser, Aleksei Aksimentiev
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/2f5231c7aff4488f9f6fa528592e67b0
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