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Symposium Life Sciences on the Nanometer Scale - Physics Meets Biology Donnerstag<br />

assumption that elastic energy is stored in the open confirmation. It is<br />

unclear if there is a further spontaneous closing motion on longer time<br />

scales. To test the effect of the adjacent alpha subunit we performed<br />

simulations of the joined units and found only a negligible effect. We<br />

also equilibrated isolated β-subunits for the AlF − 4 -inhibited F1-ATPase<br />

starting from the the half-closed state with ADP bound and from modified<br />

half-closed states with bound ATP. The simulations again revealed<br />

spontaneous motion towards the closed conformation.<br />

SYLS 5.4 Do 12:15 H 37<br />

A molecular machine based on a DNA aptamer — •Friedrich<br />

Simmel, Wendy Huynh, and Andreas Reuter — Sektion Physik<br />

and Center for Nanoscience, LMU Muenchen, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz<br />

1, 80539 Muenchen<br />

A functional nanomechanical DNA switch based on the anti-thrombin<br />

aptamer structure is presented. Utilizing DNA strand displacement by<br />

branch migration, thrombin can be selectively bound or released by the<br />

DNA machine. The operation of the machine is demonstrated by electrophoretic<br />

mobility shift assays and fluorescence resonance energy transfer<br />

experiments.

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