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DNA Bipedal Motor Achieves a Large Number of Steps Due to Operation Using MicrofluidicsBased Interface Toma E. Tomov,†,§ Roman Tsukanov,†,§ Yair Glick,‡ Yaron Berger,† Miran Liber,† Dorit Avrahami,‡ Doron Gerber,*,‡ and Eyal Nir*,† †

Department of Chemistry and the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel ‡ Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel S Supporting Information *

ABSTRACT: Realization of bioinspired molecular machines that can perform many and diverse operations in response to external chemical commands is a major goal in nanotechnology, but current molecular machines respond to only a few sequential commands. Lack of effective methods for introduction and removal of command compounds and low efficiencies of the reactions involved are major reasons for the limited performance. We introduce here a user interface based on a microfluidics device and single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy that allows efficient introduction and removal of chemical commands and enables detailed study of the reaction mechanisms involved in the operation of synthetic molecular machines. The microfluidics provided 64 consecutive DNA strand commands to a DNA-based motor system immobilized inside the microfluidics, driving a bipedal walker to perform 32 steps on a DNA origami track. The microfluidics enabled removal of redundant strands, resulting in a 6-fold increase in processivity relative to an identical motor operated without strand removal and significantly more operations than previously reported for user-controlled DNA nanomachines. In the motor operated without strand removal, redundant strands interfere with motor operation and reduce its performance. The microfluidics also enabled computer control of motor direction and speed. Furthermore, analysis of the reaction kinetics and motor performance in the absence of redundant strands, made possible by the microfluidics, enabled accurate modeling of the walker processivity. This enabled identification of dynamic boundaries and provided an explanation, based on the “trap state” mechanism, for why the motor did not perform an even larger number of steps. This understanding is very important for the development of future motors with significantly improved performance. Our universal interface enables two-way communication between user and molecular machine and, relying on concepts similar to that of solid-phase synthesis, removes limitations on the number of external stimuli. This interface, therefore, is an important step toward realization of reliable, processive, reproducible, and useful externally controlled DNA nanomachines. KEYWORDS: DNA nanotechnology, DNA motors, DNA machines, single-molecule fluorescence, sm-FRET, microfluidics

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and fast and, like enzymes, do not chemically and irreversibly change during operation (no “burnt-bridge” mechanism3,4).

iological molecular motors made of proteins, which play major roles in many biological processes, often operate with remarkably high chemical yield and speed. For example, the kinesin bipedal motor can perform hundreds of steps per second before dissociating from the microtubule track.1,2 These motors are autonomous, directional, processive, © 2017 American Chemical Society

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Figure 1. Experimental setup, motor design, and motor operating principle. (a) Diagram of the of the microfluidics device. Sixteen input channels (green) feed the working chambers and are controlled by a set of pneumatic valves (orange), which are operated through a computer. (b) Device is mounted on a TIRF setup, and the DNA origami-based motor is immobilized through biotin−NeutrAvidin interactions inside the working chamber. (c) Image (top view) of the microfluidics device mounted on the TIRF setup. (d) DNA origami contains 10 protruding foothold strands (TS and T1−T9; different colors indicate different DNA sequences), which form the track on which the walker strides. (e) Each of the two legs of the walker connects to the footholds via two fuel strands (F1 and F2). (f) Three-dimensional schematic of the motor. (g) Principle of motor operationwalking from state 1 to state 2: Fuels have four possible sequences (F1−F4), such that each fuel conveyed via the microfluidics device attaches one specific leg to one specific foothold. Conveying the complementary antifuel strand (AF1−AF4) to the chamber detaches the fuel, releases the leg from its foothold, and generates a waste product (which is washed away by the microfluidics device). To place the walker on T1 in the assembly process, a specific fuel (FS), antifuel (AFS), and foothold (TS) are used (see Figure 2). L1 is labeled with a donor fluorophore (green star), and T1 and T9 are labeled with acceptor fluorophores (red stars) at different distances from the origami, such that the association between L1 and T1 or T9 generates a distinguished FRET signal, allowing precise monitoring of the motor status.

steps,12−16 and our motor performs only seven steps.17,18 Because commanding strands accumulate in the solution, it is reasonable to suspect that these strands eventually interfere with the motor operation, reducing motor processivity. Purification methods such as gel electrophoresis and magnetic beads5 can remove such DNA strands from the motor solution. These methods, however, disrupt continuous operation, may harm the integrity of the motors, and are slow and tedious, making them inadequate for performing more than a few sequential operations. External input of strands and other reactants is important for many functions and applications. These include enzymatic synthesis of chemical compounds using molecular assembly lines,14,19 structural manipulation and maneuvering of externally controlled substrate molecules,20−26 and DNA-based molecular computing,27,28 to name a few. We, therefore, set out to develop a method that allows unlimited introduction and removal of commanding strands and other reactants without disturbing the molecular motor and machines or interrupting their operation. Here, we employed a microfluidics device that, as in solidphase synthesis, allowed convenient user- and computercontrolled introduction and, most importantly, removal of chemical inputs to and from molecular machines immobilized

For bipedal walkers, such as kinesin, to avoid dissociation from the track, the trailing leg must somehow “know” not to detach from the track before the leading leg is stably anchored.1 Developing such an internal coordination mechanism for an autonomous synthetic molecular motor that is directional, processive, and free of the burnt-bridge effect is, however, a very difficult task.5−7 To the best of our knowledge, only two such motors have been demonstrated so far,8−10 but these remarkable motors have low processivity (only two steps)8,9 or are slow (one rotation in 12 h).10 By sacrificing autonomy and providing control and, therefore, coordination, from the outside, directionality, processivity, speed, and avoidance of the burnt-bridge effect can be more easily achieved.11 This approach was demonstrated for DNA motors that operate by responding to a sequence of externally introduced commanding DNA strands, often called “fuel” and “antifuel”,11 that also provide chemical energy for the motors.12−16 Following this approach,12 our group developed a DNA bipedal motor that strides on the DNA origami track by responding to fuel and antifuel strands. 17,18 Although theoretically DNA stability and DNA interaction yields should allow many operations, externally controlled motor and machines typically performed only a small number of 4003

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Figure 2. Immobilization and assembly of the motor inside the microfluidics device. Motor schematics and typical TIRF images (donor and acceptor channels are shown on the left and right side of the image, respectively) recorded at different assembly steps. To avoid accumulation of fluorophore bleaching, each of the TIRF images was recorded at different positions along the working chamber. (a) Introduction of biotinylated bovine serum albumin and NeutrAvidin. The TIRF images demonstrate the cleanliness of the working chamber. (b) Introduction of acceptor-labeled origami track. Track concentration and uniformity were monitored by the acceptor signal. (c) Introduction of FS and donor-labeled walker resulted in binding of the walker to TS, as was indicated by the low FRET (E) values. (d) Introduction of F1 followed by AFS resulted in the walker parking on T1 (state 1) as was indicated by the high FRET values (see also Figure 3a). Direct binding of the walker to T1 would result in binding to T5 and T9 (which have identical sequences to that of T1). Therefore, it was necessary to bind to TS, which has a unique sequence, followed by walking to T1 (state 1). The traffic-light-like symbols indicate whether the donor laser or the acceptor laser was on (see Supplementary Figure 3 for scheme of the optical setup). The size of each TIRF image is 60 × 60 μm.

L2)12 that moves on a DNA origami-based asymmetric track with 10 branching strands that serve as footholds for the walker (TS, T1-T9).17,18 The legs attach to the footholds by base pairing with fuel strands (F1−F4) and disconnect by a toeholdmediated strand displacement reaction, driven by hybridization with complementary antifuel strands (AF1−AF4, Figure 1g).11 Each leg has a different nucleic acid sequence, and the footholds have four different sequences. Accordingly, the order and timing by which the fuels and antifuels are conveyed through the microfluidics device determine the direction and speed of the walker. Motor status readout is enabled by labeling L1 with a donor fluorophore and two footholds (T1 and T9) with acceptor fluorophores (Figure 1g), such that different Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) values (E, eq S1) are obtained when L1 is lifted or parked at different positions along the track. The motor design and DNA sequences are detailed in the Supplementary Section 3 and Supplementary Table 1. Motor Assembly and Immobilization inside the Microfluidics Device. The motor was assembled and immobilized using our microfluidics and single-molecule fluorescence-based interface. We immobilized the origami track on the coverslip within the working chamber, attached the walker to the track, and then advanced it to the initial state 1 (Figure 2). The assembly procedure was initially optimized using information acquired by single-molecule fluorescence measurements Optimization included tuning the motor density, ensuring that the walkers faced upward, minimizing fluorescence contamination in the chamber, and ensuring that all walkers were positioned in state 1 (for more details, see Supplementary Section 4). The optimized procedure, which included a total of 36 microfluidics commands (Supplementary Table 2), resulted in almost 100% of the motors positioned in state 1 (Figure 3a). To maintain reproducibility, the optimized assembly procedure was thereafter performed via an automatic computer algorithm. Alternatively, the motor was prepared with the walker attached to the starting foothold (TS) during the

inside the microfluidics device. Specifically, we demonstrated, using the single-molecule fluorescence-based interface, the assembly and operation of a bipedal DNA walker that strides on a DNA origami track in response to DNA fuel and antifuel strand commands.17,18 First, the motor was assembled inside the microfluidics using an optimized, computer-programmed procedure, and the microfluidics-driven motor performed 6fold more steps than an identical motor operating without removal of the redundant command strands (which we will call the “nonwashed” motor). Moreover, to explain why the microfluidics-driven motor performed only 32 steps and not more, we measured the motor reaction kinetics with high time resolution made possible by the microfluidics fast solution exchange rate and also measured the motor operational yields (defined as the percentage of motors that respond as designed) at different fuel concentrations and incubation times. Using this information, which could not have been obtained without the removal of redundant strands, we developed a mechanistic model that considers the binding of two fuels to a leg (which we call the “trap state” model) that predicts the operational yield and explains the dependency of operational yield on motor speed. Finally, we propose a design for a bipedal motor that avoids the principle limitations of the current motor.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION In our design, an integrated microfluidics device29,30 is mounted on a single-molecule total internal reflection fluorescence (sm-TIRF) setup31,32 (Figure 1a−c and Supplementary Sections 1 and 2). The device includes 16 input channels, which convey solutions containing the molecular components for motor immobilization, assembly, and operation. The pneumatic valves that regulate flow are embedded in the device in a design that enables rapid and precise computercontrolled exchange of small-volume solutions at a programmable and reproducible sequence and timing. The motor (Figure 1d−g) is a bipedal walker (made of two legs, L1 and 4004

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Figure 3. Driven by computer-controlled microfluidics, the motor performed 32 steps, crossing 370 nm, with 44% operational yield, a 6-fold increase over a nonwashed motor. (a) Based on a sequence of fuel and antifuel commands conveyed by the microfluidics device, the motor proceeded from state S1 to state S33, including three preprogrammed changes in directions (at S9, S17, and S25). Shown are the schematics of the motor status at six selected states and the sequence of fuels and antifuels introduced to advance the walker between states. E histograms of FRET values of the six selected states show no incorrect states. The histograms were constructed from E values measured for 700−1000 different motors (see Supporting Information for details). (b) Color-scaled sm-TIRF images of individual motors are shown for three representative steps, demonstrating high (S1), low (S5), and intermediate (S9) FRET values. The FRET values of all the states, with the exceptions of those when the walker was positioned on T1 and T9, were identical to that of state 5 (Supplementary Figure 5D). (c) Operational yield (percentage of the number of motors counted in S1) of the microfluidics-driven walker (green), as compared with that of a nonwashed motor (blue). Operational yields were calculated from data collected in five identical experiments with a total of 3500−5000 motors measured for each data point. The fuel and antifuel concentrations were 200 nM, and the incubation times for each fuel and antifuel step were 3000 s.

annealing procedure (Supplementary Figure 4a). This approach was not as efficient due to some dissociation of the walker from the single TS foothold on which it was standing. The difference in efficiencies of these two methods was not very large in this particular case; however, we demonstrate the benefits and potential of the solid-phase chemistry-like, precise, step-by-step molecular machine assembly that is assisted in real-time by feedback from single-molecule fluorescence. Motor Operation and Performance. The operation phase of the motor was also executed by a computerprogrammable procedure (Supplementary Section 5). We introduced 64 fuel and antifuel strands in sequence, resulting in 32 steps performed by the walker, including three preprogrammed changes in direction (Figure 3a). Overall, the microfluidics device conveyed 192 solutions (including washing solutions) through 384 computer commands (Supplementary Tables 3 and 4), which would have been impractical if conducted manually. During operation, we used FRET to monitor the status of the motor at six selected states. Each state yielded the expected FRET values (Figure 3a,b and

Supplementary Sections 6 and 7). Forty-four percent of the motors remained intact after 32 steps, traversing 370 nm in total (Figure 3c). This result indicates that only ∼2.5% of the motors dissociated in each step, a record processivity for controlled DNA motors and for motors that do not damage the track (those that damage the track are known as “burnt-bridge” motors22,33). Comparison with Nonwashed Motor Performance. To demonstrate the contribution of the microfluidics to the motor operational yield and processivity, we measured the operational yield of an identical motor operated without removal of fuel or antifuel after each step and that was freely diffusing in a solution17 (Supplementary Sections 8 and 13). With this operational scheme, redundant fuels and antifuels accumulate in the solution. We found that the operational yield of the microfluidics-driven motor was 6-fold higher than that of the nonwashed motor (Figure 3c). Furthermore, incorrect populations were observed in the nonwashed motor (Supplementary Figure 6) but not in the microfluidics-driven motor (Figure 3a and Supplementary Figure 5). These results indicate 4005

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Figure 4. Motor mechanism and processivity. (a) Experimental and simulated (based on the trap state model) operational yields at different fuel and antifuel concentrations and incubation times. Experimental operational yields were calculated from data collected in 3−5 identical experiments with a total of 3500−5000 motors measured for each data point. The model correctly reproduced the two main features of the experimental data. For long incubation times (300−3000 s), operational yields decreased with increasing fuel concentrations, a result of increased formation of the trap state. For short incubation times (30 s), low fuel and antifuel concentrations were insufficient to complete the leg-placing and leg-lifting reactions, such that increasing the concentration increased the yield but not above the limitation set by the trap state effect. (b) Trap state model. A hairpin fuel is designed to bind the foothold and then open and bind the leg. However, a different fuel may bind the leg before the leg and the foothold associate, leading to the formation of a trap state and walker dissociation upon antifuel binding.

lifting in 0.4 s for a 100 μM antifuel concentration). Contrary to that, the leg-placing rate increased only to a certain value, corresponding to the intrinsic intramolecular stepping rate, which therefore constitutes a fundamental walking speed limit for our motor. To illustrate, based on this stepping rate, 50% of the walkers can advance at a speed of 2 nm/s (for foothold spacing of 11.6 nm). However, to enable such speed, it is necessary to use high concentrations of fuels, which, because of the trap state effect, results in reduced processivity. A reasonable compromise between speed and yield can be achieved using 1 μM fuel and antifuel concentrations and 100 s incubation times (Figure 4a). With these parameters, one motor cycle (from state 1 to state 17) takes 1 h and has an operational yield of 60% and a speed of 0.1 nm/min. To achieve much better performance, however, the trap state mechanism must be solved or somehow avoided. Proposal of Mechanisms for Externally Controlled DNA Machines with Significantly Improved Performance. Parallel binding of two strands that results in the trap state is a known problem,11,17,34 for which there is no simple solution. The use of several pairs of legs and footholds may offer a remedy. Because one leg attached to a foothold prevents dissociation, the probability that the walker will dissociate (that is, no legs are attached to the track) exponentially decreases with an increase in the number of legs. Thus, several pairs of 4006

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CONCLUSIONS The conjunction of the integrated microfluidics and singlemolecule fluorescence techniques establishes a robust interface that enables communication and feedback between users and molecular machines. As in solid-phase synthesis, the microfluidics device allows computer-controlled, automatic introduction of an essentially unlimited number of external inputs and, therefore, an essentially unlimited number of assembly and operation steps. Further, removal of excess materials and waste products is achieved with minimal effort and without disrupting motor assembly and operation, as is the case for gel electrophoresis and magnetic-bead purification methods. Furthermore, we demonstrate a single-molecule fluorescence study of molecules immobilized inside a microfluidics device, and a use of our interface enabled capture of reaction kinetics with high time resolution and on a single-molecular machine level, which is crucial for rational development of complex machines. Specifically, by removing the redundant strands, use of the microfluidics resulted in a 6-fold increase in operational yield and processivity relative to the motor operated without removal of command strands. This, together with the ability to measure fast kinetics, enabled elucidation of the trap state mechanism, which limits the performance of our motor, including under conditions when hairpin fuels were used. This knowledge is very important for rational design of improved motors. Assuming that DNA motors or other machines can be designed free of the trap state effect, we expect that our interface will allow hundreds and possibly thousands of operations. Thus, our approach constitutes a conceptual step toward the realization of “next generation” complex bioinspired molecular machines that respond, in realtime, to an essentially unlimited number of instructions and perform numerous and potentially parallel processes.

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The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the ACS Publications website at DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b00547. Supplementary Sections 1−13, supplementary Figures 1−12, and supplementary Tables 1−4 (PDF)

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Toma E. Tomov: 0000-0003-2996-3823 Eyal Nir: 0000-0002-6656-3282 Author Contributions §

T.E.T. and R.T. contributed equally to this work.

The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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