Rational design of nucleic acid-based structures as well as control of reaction mechanisms are key aspects of DNA nanotechnology and synthetic biology. In the first part, DNA nanotechnology was employed to study the effect of colocalization on the performance of a two-stage DNA strand displacement cascade comprised of a sender and a receiver gate immobilized onto a DNA origami platform. The second project captures synthetic biology concepts and aims to control gene regulation on the post-transcriptional level, taking up the principle of de-novo designed toehold switch riboregulators.
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Rational design of nucleic acid-based structures as well as control of reaction mechanisms are key aspects of DNA nanotechnology and synthetic biology. In the first part, DNA nanotechnology was employed to study the effect of colocalization on the performance of a two-stage DNA strand displacement cascade comprised of a sender and a receiver gate immobilized onto a DNA origami platform. The second project captures synthetic biology concepts and aims to control gene regulation on the post-transcr...
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