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Small Canvas SST
How to Design
Small Canvas SST Sequence Files
In order to design and further manipulate the small canvas SST files, use the following tools:
DyNAMic Workbench is an online tool that we used for designing and manipulating our DNA sequences to anneal at specific temperatures.
- Login
- Click Tools -> DD
- Add sequences, and fix base positions - capital letters remain constant, lower case letters mutate (double click on sequence to edit)
- Select desired nucleotides to include in mutations (double click on composition and choose from scroll down menu)
- Hit mutate - the lower the score, the better
NUPACK is an online tool that we used for computing the temperature at which our SST structures would melt.
Settings:
- Compute melt
- Concentration: 1 μM
Oligo Analyzer is an online tool that we used for determining if any of our SST structures would bind complementary to themselves.
Settings:
- Target type: DNA
- Oligo Conc: 1 μM
- Na+ Conc: 0mM
- Mg++ Conc: 10mM
- dNTPs Conc: 0 mM
- Use Analyze and Self-Dimer to optimize
Sequence Massager
Sequence Massager is an online tool that we used for reversing or finding the complement strands for our SST sequences.
- Click Reverse and Complement as needed
MFold is an online tool that we used for determining the temperatures at which our SST structures would form.
Settings:
- Na+: 0 mM
- Mg++: 10 mM
- Folding temperature: 25°C
How to Make
Making 1µM D-DNA Strand Solution
- Stock: 66 unique 100 µM strands
- Add 5 µL of each D-DNA strand into a PCR tube
- Nothing left in Well F3
- Nothing left in Well C4
- Add 170 µL of DD H2O
- End: 500 µL of 66 unique 1 µM D-DNA strands
Making 160mM Mg Buffer
- Stock: 1M MgCl2
- Dilute to 160 mM MgCl2 -1.6 mL 1 M MgCl2 and 8.4 mL H2O
- End: 10 mL of 160mM Mg Buffer
Setting Up SST Reaction
- Add 20 µL of D-DNA strand solution to 20 µL of our diluted buffer
- Add 160 µL of H2O
- End: 200 µL solution of 100 nM of each D-DNA strand and 16 mM of MgCl2 buffer
Thermal Cycler
- Turn dial to big tube
- Files -> New
- Lid temperature set at 105 degrees
- Wait
- Select 44 degrees
- Set at 30 minutes
- Hold at 20 degrees
- Exit
- Save as “Hold44”
- Run
- Approximately 12:20PM-12:50PM
- It will read “Hold at 20 degrees” when done.
How to Analyze
DNA Origami
How to Design
- Download Cadnano2 and follow installation directions
- Watch the tutorials on YouTube
- Download and manipulate DNA Origami file and generate DNA sequences. Edit and add sequences as needed.
- Order strands via Integrated DNA Technologies or a similar DNA synthesis company