Dynamic DNA Networks-Guided Directional and Orthogonal Transient Biocatalytic Cascades

Yu Ouyang, Jiantong Dong, Itamar Willner*

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Abstract

DNA frameworks, consisting of constitutional dynamic networks (CDNs) undergoing fuel-driven reconfiguration, are coupled to a dissipative reaction module that triggers the reconfigured CDNs into a transient intermediate CDNs recovering the parent CDN state. Biocatalytic cascades consisting of the glucose oxidase (GOx)/horseradish peroxidase (HRP) couple or the lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)/nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) couple are tethered to the constituents of two different CDNs, allowing the CDNs-guided operation of the spatially confined GOx/HRP or LDH/NAD+ biocatalytic cascades. By applying two different fuel triggers, the directional transient CDN-guided upregulation/downregulation of the two biocatalytic cascades are demonstrated. By mixing the GOx/HRP-biocatalyst-modified CDN with the LDH/NAD+-biocatalyst-functionalized CDN, a composite CDN is assembled. Triggering the composite CDN with two different fuel strands results in orthogonal transient upregulation of the GOx/HRP cascade and transient downregulation of the LDH/NAD+ cascade or vice versa. The transient CDNs-guided biocatalytic cascades are computationally simulated by kinetic models, and the computational analyses allow the prediction of the performance of transient biocatalytic cascades under different auxiliary conditions. The concept of orthogonally triggered temporal, transient, biocatalytic cascades by means of CDN frameworks is applied to design an orthogonally operating CDN for the temporal upregulated or downregulated transient thrombin-induced coagulation of fibrinogen to fibrin.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)22135-22149
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume145
Issue number40
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Oct 2023

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