Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.130, No.31, 10050-10050, 2008
Autonomous DNA computing machine based on photochemical gate transition
We report the construction of a one-pot autonomous DNA computing machine based on photochemical gate transition (photocleavage, hybridization, and photoligation), and we performed binary digit additions using this machine. In our method, both photochemical DNA manipulations previously reported photolitigation via 5-carboxyvinyldeoxyuridene (U-CV) containing ODN and photoclevage via carbazole-modified ODN, were employed. The binary digit additions were autonomously carried out by one-time irradiation at 366 nm in the single tube. The fluorescence readout by the DNA chip was in good agreement with the correct answer of binary digit additions. We believe that this system is easily applicable to correlation analysis between SNPs as well as other binary digit processing, such as subtraction.