Figure 4: 3D crystal lattice of a tensegrity motif.
From: Lattice-free prediction of three-dimensional structure of programmed DNA assemblies
(a) Zoomed-in view of the central crystal cell aligned with the crystallographic structure PDB ID: 3GBI (light blue). Each nucleotide in the crystal structure predicted by the model is coloured according to its RMSD on a per-nucleotide basis with respect to the corresponding nucleotide in the crystallographic structure. (b) The zoomed-in central unit cell coloured according to DNA strands with the surrounding unit cells shown in semi-transparent rendering. (c) The overall crystal structure of PDB ID 3GBI14 predicted using the finite element model applied to a 5 × 5 × 5 cell. The lower right inset shows the size and orientation of a unit cell, where crystal axes and angles are denoted by a and α, respectively. Three orthogonal views of each panel are depicted in Supplementary Fig. 15. Scale bars are 1 nm (a,b) and 10 nm (c).
