Microenvironment-confined Kinetic Elucidation and Implementation of a DNA Nano-phage with a Shielded Internal Computing Layer

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Date 2025 Jan 22

PMID 39843440

Authors

Decui Tang

Shuoyao He

Yani Yang

Yuqi Zeng

Mengyi Xiong

Ding Ding

Weijun Wei

Yifan Lyu

Xiao-Bing Zhang

Weihong Tan

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Abstract

Multiple receptor analysis-based DNA molecular computation has been developed to mitigate the off-target effect caused by nonspecific expression of cell membrane receptors. However, it is quite difficult to involve nanobodies into molecular computation with programmed recognition order because of the "always-on" response mode and the inconvenient molecular programming. Here we propose a spatial segregation-based molecular computing strategy with a shielded internal computing layer termed DNA nano-phage (DNP) to program nanobody into DNA molecular computation and build a series of kinetic models to elucidate the mechanism of microenvironment-confinement. We explain the contradiction between fast molecular diffusion and effective DNA computation using a "diffusion trap" theory and comprehensively overcome the kinetic bottleneck of DNP by determining the rate-limiting step. We predict and verify that identifying trace amount of target cells in complex cell mixtures is an intrinsic merit of microenvironment-confined DNA computation. Finally, we show that DNP can efficiently work in complex human blood samples by shielding the interference of erythrocytes and enhance phagocytosis of macrophages toward target cells by blocking CD47-SIRPα pathway.

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