Micro- and Nanoengineering of the Cell Surface

Chapter 8

Construction and Computation with Nucleic Acids on the Cell Surface

Alexey Y. Koyfman¹ and Norbert O. Reich²,    ¹Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA,    ²Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

In this chapter, the authors summarize recent advances in using cells and their surfaces for engineering and computation applications. Many of these advances have a clear potential for translational applications, including imaging. Nucleic-acid based methods are scalable, modular, and rely on ...