Biological nanopore approach for single‐molecule protein sequencing

ZL Hu, MZ Huo, YL Ying, YT Long - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Proteins are responsible for the occurrence and treatment of many diseases, and therefore
protein sequencing will revolutionize proteomics and clinical diagnostics. Biological …

Single-molecule protein sensing in a nanopore: a tutorial

N Varongchayakul, J Song, A Meller… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteins are the structural elements and machinery of cells responsible for a functioning
biological architecture and homeostasis. Advances in nanotechnology are catalyzing key …

Electrical recognition of the twenty proteinogenic amino acids using an aerolysin nanopore

H Ouldali, K Sarthak, T Ensslen, F Piguet… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Efforts to sequence single protein molecules in nanopores,,,–have been hampered by the
lack of techniques with sufficient sensitivity to discern the subtle molecular differences …

Identification of single amino acid differences in uniformly charged homopolymeric peptides with aerolysin nanopore

F Piguet, H Ouldali, M Pastoriza-Gallego… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
There are still unmet needs in finding new technologies for biomedical diagnostic and
industrial applications. A technology allowing the analysis of size and sequence of short …

Protein reconstitution into freestanding planar lipid membranes for electrophysiological characterization

T Gutsmann, T Heimburg, U Keyser, KR Mahendran… - Nature protocols, 2015 - nature.com
The reconstitution of channel-forming proteins into planar lipid bilayers enables their
functional characterization at very low (sometimes below attomolar) concentrations. We …

Artificial cell membrane systems for biosensing applications

T Osaki, S Takeuchi - Analytical chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Biological membranes provide a physical boundary that separates the inside and outside of
a cell or organelle. They also mediate signal transduction and transport of various molecules …

Biological nanopores: Engineering on demand

A Crnković, M Srnko, G Anderluh - Life, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nanopore-based sensing is a powerful technique for the detection of diverse organic and
inorganic molecules, long-read sequencing of nucleic acids, and single-molecule analyses …

Discrimination among protein variants using an unfoldase-coupled nanopore

J Nivala, L Mulroney, G Li, J Schreiber, M Akeson - ACS nano, 2014 - ACS Publications
Previously we showed that the protein unfoldase ClpX could facilitate translocation of
individual proteins through the α-hemolysin nanopore. This results in ionic current …

Bacterial outer membrane porins as electrostatic nanosieves: exploring transport rules of small polar molecules

H Bajaj, S Acosta Gutierrez, I Bodrenko, G Malloci… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Transport of molecules through biological membranes is a fundamental process in biology,
facilitated by selective channels and general pores. The architecture of some outer …

The utility of nanopore technology for protein and peptide sensing

JWF Robertson, JE Reiner - Proteomics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Resistive pulse nanopore sensing enables label‐free single‐molecule analysis of a wide
range of analytes. An increasing number of studies have demonstrated the feasibility and …