IP Library Granted Patent US 11,235,972
Granted Patent B2
US 11,235,972 · App. 16/092,802 · Granted Feb 1, 2022

Sequence design for efficient assembly of nucleic acid structures

Inventors: Nikhil Gopalkrishnan (Jamaica Plain, MA); Thomas E. Schaus (Arlington, MA); Peng Yin (Brookline, MA)
Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
B82B3/0042C07H21/04C12N15/10C12Q1/6811B82Y40/00C12Q2563/155C12Q2563/157C12Q2565/133
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Patent No.
US 11,235,972
App. No.
16/092,802
Granted
Feb 1, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides, in some aspects, methods and compositions for producing nucleic acid nanostructures having little to no kinetic barriers to self-assembly.

Claims (24)

1. A nucleic acid nanostructure comprising:

(a) a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) strand having a length of at least 100 nucleotides and having a nucleotide sequence that comprises less than 10% of one of C, G, T or A nucleotides; and

(b) 10-2000 oligonucleotides, wherein each oligonucleotide is at least partially complementary to and at least partially bound to the DNA strand.

2. The nucleic acid nanostructure of claim 1 , wherein the nucleotide sequence comprises greater than 90% of A, T and C nucleotides and less than 10% of G nucleotides.

3. The nucleic acid nanostructure of claim 1 , wherein the nucleotide sequence comprises greater than 90% of A, T and G nucleotides and less than 10% of C nucleotides.

4. The nucleic acid nanostructure of claim 1 , wherein the nucleotide sequence comprises less than 5% of one of C, G, T or A nucleotides.

5. The nucleic acid nanostructure of claim 1 , wherein the nucleotide sequence comprises 1-5% of one of C, G, T or A nucleotides.

6. The nucleic acid nanostructure of claim 1 , wherein the nucleotide sequence comprises nucleotide subsequences, each of which is present only once in the DNA strand.

7. The nucleic acid nanostructure of claim 6 , wherein the nucleotide subsequences have a length of 5 to 10 nucleotides.

8. The nucleic acid nanostructure of claim 1 , wherein the DNA strand has a length of at least 500 nucleotides.

9. The nucleic acid nanostructure of claim 1 , wherein the DNA strand has a length of at least 1000 nucleotides.

10. The nucleic acid nanostructure of claim 9 , wherein the DNA strand has a length of 100-100,000 nucleotides.

11. The nucleic acid nanostructure of claim 1 , wherein the nucleic acid nanostructure is three-dimensional.

12. A nucleic acid nanostructure of comprising:

(a) a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) strand having a length of at least 100 nucleotides and having a nucleotide sequence that comprises less than 10% of one of C, G, T or A nucleotides; and

(b) a plurality of oligonucleotides, wherein each oligonucleotide is at least partially complementary to and at least partially bound to the DNA strand, wherein the nanostructure is a three-dimensional DNA origami structure and has a diameter of 10-500 nm.

13. A kit comprising

(a) a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) strand having a length of at least 100 nucleotides and having a nucleotide sequence that comprises less than 10% of one of C, G, T or A nucleotides; and

(b) 10-2000 oligonucleotides, wherein each oligonucleotide is at least partially complementary to and at least partially bound to the DNA strand.

14. A method of producing a DNA origami nanostructure, comprising

incubating, in a reaction vessel,

(a) a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) strand having a length of at least 100 nucleotides and having a nucleotide sequence that comprises less than 10% of one of C, G, T or A nucleotides, and

(b) a plurality of oligonucleotides, wherein each oligonucleotide is at least partially complementary to the DNA strand,

under conditions that result in binding of the oligonucleotides to the DNA strand to form a DNA origami nanostructure.

Assignments (2)
CONFIRMATORY LICENSE Recorded Sep 18, 2019
From: HARVARD UNIVERSITY
To: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Reel/Frame 050419/0957 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 27, 2019
From: GOPALKRISHNAN, NIKHIL; SCHAUS, THOMAS; YIN, PENG
To: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
Reel/Frame 050175/0612 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62321146 · Apr 11, 2016
Related Publication 20190169024A1 · Jun 6, 2019
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