Sticking and stacking: Persistent ordering of fragmented DNA analogs [Applied Physical Sciences]

In a PNAS paper, Smith et al. (1) demonstrate spontaneous self-assembly of a DNA analog from a solution of mononucleotide triphosphates, exhibiting concurrently a high degree of Watson–Crick base pair selectivity with complementarity-dependent partitioning of nucleotides, a stacking order corresponding very closely to B-DNA geometry and a mesophase ordering similar...

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