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August 15, 2025Angewandte Chemie1 citations

Programmable DNA Nanocages Enable Adaptive Spatiotemporal Organization of Biomimetic Organelle Networks

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PHPengyan HaoXSXiaoya SunLNLiqiong Niu

Key Points

  • Adaptive feedback mechanisms significantly enhance the stability and function of synthetic organelles, paving the way for autonomous networks.
  • Extracellular vesicles significantly improved stability through tetrahedral DNA frameworks, preventing unwanted membrane fusion.
  • Modular and programmable DNA nanocages were constructed, integrating logic-gated DNA elements for dynamic spatial organization.
  • These findings may enable advances in synthetic biology and smart materials, emphasizing the impact of cell-like structures.

Abstract

Abstract Synthetic organelles have emerged to simulate the multicompartmental organization and communication within cells. However, current synthetic organelles (e.g., lipid vesicles and polymer‐based assemblies) often suffer from insufficient structural stability and lack adaptive feedback mechanisms due to the absence of support and dynamic regulation by natural cytoskeletal proteins, which limits the construction of autonomous communication networks. Here, we present a modular and programmable DNA nanocage strategy for constructing stable and adaptive synthetic organelle networks. Using extracellular vesicles (EVs) as a model, we anchored tetrahedral DNA frameworks (TDNs) on the EV surface and assembled a mechanically reinforced biomimetic DNA nanocage via palindromic hybridization chain reaction (PHCR), thereby significantly enhancing vesicle stability and effectively preventing membrane fusion upon contact. The modular design enables the integration of logic‐gated DNA elements as dynamic contact sites, allowing environment‐responsive reconfiguration of inter‐artificial‐organelle spatial organization and signaling. This work provides a customizable platform for constructing artificial organelles with adaptive feedback regulation, offering broad potential in synthetic biology, biomedical applications, and smart material design.

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Hao et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68a365600a429f797332b69fhttps://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202511909
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