Figure 5.

(a) Inert and DBCO-modified bis-pyridine decorated BTA derivatives are mixed and (b) subsequently form coassemblies. (c) Oligonucleotides with various sequences are then added to react with the DBCO-modified monomers. (d) After mixing BTA assemblies grafted with complementary oligonucleotides, the addition of magnesium results in hybridization of the complementary DNA-handles enabled by the dynamic rearrangement of the BiPy-BTA monomers. (e) Subsequent addition of inert monomers leads to dilution of the DNA-grafted monomers over the assemblies and disruption of the hybridized handles and redistribution of the monomers. Reproduced with permission from ref (32). Copyright 2018, Wiley-VCH.