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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Nano Lett. 2011 Jun 23;11(7):2997–3002. doi: 10.1021/nl201603a

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic illustrating the ‘origami of origami’. Top left: An M13 scaffold (black circular strand) is folded by a set of short DNA staples (blue strands) to form various individual DNA origami tiles. Each individual origami tile displays a group of single stranded extensions that are subsequently used as sticky-points to interact with the pre-formed scaffold frames shown on the right. Top right: A PhiX174 scaffold (red circular strand) is folded by a set of bridge strands (black strands) to form the loose frameworks that interact with the individual pre-formed origami tiles to create the various super-origami structures shown at the bottom.