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Construction of a novel phagemid to produce custom DNA origami scaffolds

Parsa M. Nafisi, Tural Aksel, View ORCID ProfileShawn M. Douglas
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/309682
Parsa M. Nafisi
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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Tural Aksel
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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Shawn M. Douglas
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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Abstract

DNA origami, a method for constructing nanoscale objects, relies on a long single strand of DNA to act as the “scaffold” to template assembly of numerous short DNA oligonucleotide “staples”. The ability to generate custom scaffold sequences can greatly benefit DNA origami design processes. Custom scaffold sequences can provide better control of the overall size of the final object and better control of low-level structural details, such as locations of specific base pairs within an object. Filamentous bacteriophages and related phagemids can work well as sources of custom scaffold DNA. However, scaffolds derived from phages require inclusion of multi-kilobase DNA sequences in order to grow in host bacteria, and thus cannot be altered or removed. These fixed-sequence regions constrain the design possibilities of DNA origami. Here we report the construction of a novel phagemid, pScaf, to produce scaffolds that have a custom sequence with a much smaller fixed region of only 381 bases. We used pScaf to generate new scaffolds ranging in size from 1,512 to 10,080 bases and demonstrated their use in various DNA origami shapes and assemblies. We anticipate our pScaf phagemid will enhance development of the DNA origami method and its future applications.

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Construction of a novel phagemid to produce custom DNA origami scaffolds
Parsa M. Nafisi, Tural Aksel, Shawn M. Douglas
bioRxiv 309682; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/309682
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Construction of a novel phagemid to produce custom DNA origami scaffolds
Parsa M. Nafisi, Tural Aksel, Shawn M. Douglas
bioRxiv 309682; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/309682

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