Northwestern investigators have identified a novel approach to control the hierarchical assembly of protein pathways with DNA, according to a study published the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The approach may facilitate the construction of synthetic protein materials, which can be used for a variety of medical and scientific purposes.

“Hierarchical assembly methods are transformative because the structure of the final material is dictated by the information programmed into each individual building block,” said Chad Mirkin, Ph.D., professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and lead author of the study… Continue reading.