DNA duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry
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A construction method for duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry made out of single-stranded DNA molecules is presented and applied to an icosidodecahedral cage. It is shown via a mixture of analytic and computer techniques that there exist realisations of this graph in terms of two circular DNA molecules. These blueprints for the organisation of a cage structure with a noncrystallographic symmetry may assist in the design of containers made from DNA for applications in nanotechnology.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Theor. Comput. Sci.
دوره 410 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009