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Recovery of intact DNA nanostructures after agarose gel–based separation

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Figure 1: Agarose-gel and TEM analyses of various DNA origami objects after gel purification.

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Acknowledgements

We thank S. Simmel for providing TEM micrographs of the double-cross tensegrity structure. This work was funded by grants from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, US National Institutes of Health (1DP2OD004641-01 and 1U54GM094608-01) and Office of Naval Research (N000140911118 and N000141010241).

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  1. Gaëtan Bellot and Mark A McClintock: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Gaëtan Bellot, Mark A McClintock, Chenxiang Lin & William M Shih

  2. Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Gaëtan Bellot, Mark A McClintock, Chenxiang Lin & William M Shih

  3. Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Chenxiang Lin & William M Shih

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Bellot, G., McClintock, M., Lin, C. et al. Recovery of intact DNA nanostructures after agarose gel–based separation. Nat Methods 8, 192–194 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0311-192

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