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Directional mechanical stability of Bacteriophage φ29 motor’s 3WJ-pRNA: Extraordinary robustness along portal axis
- View ORCID ProfileZhonghe Xu1,2,*,
- View ORCID ProfileYang Sun3,*,
- Jeffrey K. Weber4,
- View ORCID ProfileYi Cao3,
- Wei Wang3,
- Daniel Jasinski5,
- View ORCID ProfilePeixuan Guo5,
- View ORCID ProfileRuhong Zhou1,4,6,† and
- Jingyuan Li1,2,†
- 1Institute of Quantitative Biology and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.
- 2Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
- 3Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, China.
- 4IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA.
- 5Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine, College of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; College of Medicine/Department of Physiology & Cell Biology; Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
- 6Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
- ↵†Corresponding author. Email: lijingyuan{at}ihep.ac.cn (J.L.); ruhongz{at}us.ibm.com (R.Z.)
↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Science Advances 26 May 2017:
Vol. 3, no. 5, e1601684
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601684
Vol. 3, no. 5, e1601684
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601684
Zhonghe Xu
1Institute of Quantitative Biology and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.
2Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Yang Sun
3Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, China.
Jeffrey K. Weber
4IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA.
Yi Cao
3Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, China.
Wei Wang
3Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, China.
Daniel Jasinski
5Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine, College of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; College of Medicine/Department of Physiology & Cell Biology; Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Peixuan Guo
5Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine, College of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; College of Medicine/Department of Physiology & Cell Biology; Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Ruhong Zhou
1Institute of Quantitative Biology and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.
4IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA.
6Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Jingyuan Li
1Institute of Quantitative Biology and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.
2Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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