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SUBMITTER: Wang ZG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3009826 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Zhen-Gang ZG Elbaz Johann J Remacle F F Levine R D RD Willner Itamar I
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20101206 51
Biomolecular logic devices can be applied for sensing and nano-medicine. We built three DNA tweezers that are activated by the inputs H(+)/OH(-); ; nucleic acid linker/complementary antilinker to yield a 16-states finite-state automaton. The outputs of the automata are the configuration of the respective tweezers (opened or closed) determined by observing fluorescence from a fluorophore/quencher pair at the end of the arms of the tweezers. The system exhibits a memory because each current state ...[more]