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</body> </td> <td> DNA Origami folding DNA origamis were assembled with a tenfold excess of the staple strands with respect to the scaffold strand (1 pmol, p8064) in 1xTE buffer containing MgCl2 and using a thermocycler. For the list of the used different master mixtures and staples see here.

Gel electrophoresis 0.75 g of agarose were added to 50 mL 0.5X TBE buffer and heated for 2 min in the microwave. After cooling down 2 µL Sybr® Safe DNA Gel Strain and 800 µL 1 M aqueous MgCl2 solution were added to the agarose gel. 30 µL sample was mixed with 5 µL 10X BlueJuice™ Gel Loading Buffer and loaded onto the gel. As a reference, 30 µL p8064 scaffold (10 nM) also with 5 µL 10X BlueJuice™ Gel Loading Buffer were applied. Furthermore, GeneRuler 1 kb Plus DNA Ladder was used as a marker. The gel electrophoresis was carried out In TBE with 11 mM MgCl2 as running buffer for 90 min.

Gel extraction The gel was examined under UV and the bands corresponding to successfully folded origami were cut. The DNA origami solution was extracted through squeezing. Filtering If the samples were not subjected to gel electrophoresis, filtering with an Amicon filter system (centrifugation 100k, 5 minutes, 10k rcf) was used to remove excess staple strands. The filtering was carried out 3 times with folding buffer. The DNA origami solution was regained from the filter by centrifugation for 3 minutes at 1k rcf.

Determining the optimal folding program From the literature it is known that DNA origamis fold well when subjected to a thermal ramp,[1] cooling down the mixture of staple strands and scaffold from a high temperature (> 60 °C) to room temperature over a certain thermal ramp. For every new DNA origami, folding conditions have to be optimized. Therefore, we subjected the DNA origami folding mix containing all staples (100 nM each), scaffold p8064 (10 nM), 16 mM MgCl2 in TE buffer to different folding programs. <div align="center"><img src="http://openwetware.org/images/thumb/c/c6/Folding_programs_final.png/765px-Folding_programs_final.png" width="" height="" ></div> <div align="center">Figure 1: Thermal ramps of the used folding programs.</div> Afterwards, the samples were subjected to gel electrophoresis (Figure 2).

<div align="center">Figure 2: gel electrophoresis for testing different folding conditions. Lanes (from left): lane 1: 3DO; lane 2: 60HF; lane 3: 24HF; lane 4: p8064 scaffold as reference; lane 5: GeneRuler 1 kb Plus DNA Ladder as a marker.</div>

All three folding programs give rise to a sharp band. The sharp band in lane 4, which contains scaffold only, runs slower than the bands in the 1st-3rd lanes, which show the mobility of the DNA origami. Therefore we are certain that DNA origami folding took place in all three programs. Since the intensity is highest in lane 3, for all further experiments we used the folding program 24HF.

Determining the optimal Mg2+ concentration for folding Since the folding is strongly dependent on the Mg2+ concentration, we screened different Mg2+ concentrations for best folding efficiency. DNA origami folding mixtures with different Mg2+ concentrations varying between 6 mM and 30 mM were subjected to the folding program 24HF and analyzed with gel electrophoresis, as shown in Figure 3. Since the gel doesn’t show a clear tendency towards which concentration is best suited for the folding of the Nanoscooter, we further analyzed the samples with AFM. Figure 3 shows the difference between the Nanoscooter which was folded with the MgCl2 concentrations of 6 and 18 mM. Obviously, the folding of the DNA origami with the latter concentration worked out best.

<div align="center">Figure 3: gel electrophoresis monitoring the folding process with different MgCl2 conentrations 1st lane: GeneRuler 1 kb Plus DNA Ladder as a marker; 2nd-9th lane: variation of the MgCl2 concentration; 10th lane: 8064 base pairs DNA scaffold as standard sample.</div>

Summing up, we successfully folded the new DNA origami and optimized the conditions. Best results are obtained by using a Mg2+ concentration of 18 mM and the folding program 24HF. This now opens the way to use the Nanoscooter for all subsequent experiments. <hr style="background-color:#be1e3c;"> <table> <tr><td> [1]</td> <td>P. Rothemund: Folding DNA to create nanoscale shapes and patterns, Nature, 2006, 440, 297-302.</td></tr></table> </table> </body>

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-DNA origamis were assembled with a tenfold excess of the staple strands with respect to the scaffold strand (1 pmol, p8064) in 1xTE buffer containing MgCl<sub>2</sub> and using a thermocycler.<br><br>
+DNA origamis were assembled with a tenfold excess of the staple strands with respect to the scaffold strand <br>(1 pmol, p8064) in 1xTE buffer containing MgCl<sub>2</sub> and using a thermocycler.<br><br>
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 .75 g of agarose were added to 50 mL 0.5X TBE buffer and heated for 2 min in the microwave. After cooling down 2 µL Sybr® Safe DNA Gel Strain and 800 µL 1 M aqueous MgCl<sub>2</sub> solution were added to the agarose gel.<br><br>
-µL sample was mixed with 5 µL 10X BlueJuice™ Gel Loading Buffer and loaded onto the gel. As a reference, 30µL p8064 scaffold (10nM) also with 5 µL 10X BlueJuice™ Gel Loading Buffer were applied. Furthermore, GeneRuler 1 kb Plus DNA Ladder was used as a marker.<br><br>
+µL sample was mixed with 5 µL 10X BlueJuice™ Gel Loading Buffer and loaded onto the gel. As a reference, 30 µL p8064 scaffold (10 nM) also with 5 µL 10X BlueJuice™ Gel Loading Buffer were applied. Furthermore, GeneRuler 1 kb Plus DNA Ladder was used as a marker.<br><br>
 The gel electrophoresis was carried out In TBE with 11 mM MgCl<sub>2</sub> as running buffer
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-The gel was examined under UV and the bands corresponding to successfully folded origami were cut. The DNA origami solution was extracted through squeezing.<br><br></font></p>
+The gel was examined under UV and the bands corresponding to successfully folded origami were cut. The DNA origami solution was extracted through squeezing.
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