Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 983-984.doi: 10.1007/s40242-020-0252-6

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Unraveling the Dynamics of Antibody-Antigen Interaction by DNA Origami

NIE Zhou   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-sensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecular Chemical Biology, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China
  • Received:2020-08-04 Revised:2020-08-07 Online:2020-10-01 Published:2020-10-01
  • Contact: NIE Zhou E-mail:niezhou.hnu@gmail.com

Abstract: To investigate the dynamic interaction between antibody and antigen, Fan et al. rationally designed a triangular DNA origami framework to spatially organize the antigenic epitopes at the nanoscale and thus to monitor the transient binding kinetics of the dynamic antigen-antibody complexes at room temperature. This study provides a straightforward, designable and programmable strategy to investigate the transition kinetics of antibody-antigen interaction at a single-molecule level and improve the understanding toward the design of the next-generation antibodies and vaccines for various biomedical applications. This work has been published online in Nature Communications on June 19, 2020.