A synthetic enzyme built from DNA flips 107 lipids per second in biological membranes
oleh: Alexander Ohmann, Chen-Yu Li, Christopher Maffeo, Kareem Al Nahas, Kevin N. Baumann, Kerstin Göpfrich, Jejoong Yoo, Ulrich F. Keyser, Aleksei Aksimentiev
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2018-06-01 |
Deskripsi
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.