Double-Crossover Molecules as a Route to Linear Catenanes and Rotaxanes

4 Double-Crossover Molecules as a Route to Linear Catenanes and Rotaxanes 

Recently, the DAE-0 and DAO-E lattices have been constructed (E. Winfree et al., 1998). With both it is possible to ligate the strands together to get very long reporter strands. The most effective characterization of these arrays has been achieved without ligating them, merely by visualizing them in the atomic force microscope (AFM). It is possible to include a DAO+J or DAE+J motif in these arrays where the J hairpin points up, sometimes DAO+2J or DAE+2J, with one hairpin pointing up and one down these hairpins have no effect on the topology of the array, just as 

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