This protocol describes a method for deriving DNA strand displacement gates from plasmids and testing them using fluorescence kinetics measurements. Gates can be modularly composed into multi-component systems to approximate the behavior of formal chemical reaction networks (CRN), demonstrating a new use for CRNs as a molecular programming language.
Chen, Y., Rao, S. D., Seelig, G. Plasmid-derived DNA Strand Displacement Gates for Implementing Chemical Reaction Networks. J. Vis. Exp. (105), e53087, doi:10.3791/53087 (2015).