DNA duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry
arXiv:0711.4344 · doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2008.12.005
Abstract
A construction method for duplex cage structures with icosahedral sym- metry 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.
13 pages, LaTex, 9 figures; focus on vertex junctions that are experimentally realizable, some figures upgraded, some removed