Using DNA to Power Nanostructures
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
Natural Computing: an international journal
Turing complete catalytic particle computers
ECAL'07 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Advances in artificial life
Photo- and thermoregulation of DNA nanomachines
DNA'05 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on DNA Computing
Chain reaction systems based on loop dissociation of DNA
DNA'05 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on DNA Computing
DNA'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on DNA Computing
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Practically all of life's molecular processes, from chemical synthesis to replication, involve enzymes that carry out their functions through the catalysis of metastable fuels into waste products. Catalytic control of reaction rates will prove to be as useful and ubiquitous in DNA nanotechnology as it is in biology. Here we present experimental results on the control of the decay rates of a metastable DNA “fuel”. We show that the fuel complex can be induced to decay with a rate about 1600 times faster than it would decay spontaneously. The original DNA hybridization catalyst [15] achieved a maximal speed-up of roughly 30. The fuel complex discussed here can therefore serve as the basic ingredient for an improved DNA hybridization catalyst. As an example application for DNA hybridization catalysts, we propose a method for implementing arbitrary digital logic circuits.