著者

近藤 次郎

出版者

日本結晶学会

雑誌

日本結晶学会誌 (ISSN:03694585)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.60, no.2-3, pp.121-128, 2018-05-31 (Released:2018-06-02)

参考文献数

23

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DNA is very attractive as bio-nanomaterials, since it is chemically stable, biocompatible, less toxic, environmentally friendly and easy to synthesize. In addition, the discovery of metal-mediated base pairs, such as T-Hg(II)-T and C-A(gI)-C, has inspired scientists to develop several nanodevices including heavy metal sensor and trapping beads. Recently, we have successfully developed a silver-DNA hybrid nanowire composed only of silver-mediated base pairs, in which Ag(I)make uninterrupted one-dimensional array along the DNA helical axis. In addition, its structure was solved by high-resolution X-ray crystallography. In this article, I present a variety of complicated and beautiful DNA structures and discuss the future outlook of “DNA structural bio-nanotechnology”.