Engineering biological nanopore approaches toward protein sequencing

X Wei, T Penkauskas, JE Reiner, C Kennard… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biotechnological innovations have vastly improved the capacity to perform large-scale
protein studies, while the methods we have for identifying and quantifying individual proteins …

Nanofluidic electrochemical sensors for clinical biomarkers detection

YL Hu, HS Cui, CM Yu, ZQ Wu - Microchemical Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Disease diagnosis, especially for early diagnosis, is the most effective method to prevent
disease development and mortality. However, low abundance clinical biomarkers in …

A click chemistry amplified nanopore assay for ultrasensitive quantification of HIV-1 p24 antigen in clinical samples

X Wei, X Wang, Z Zhang, Y Luo, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite major advances in HIV testing, ultrasensitive detection of early infection remains
challenging, especially for the viral capsid protein p24, which is an early virological …

Detection of amyloid-β fibrils using track-etched nanopores: Effect of geometry and crowding

N Meyer, N Arroyo, JM Janot, M Lepoitevin… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Several neurodegenerative diseases have been linked to proteins or peptides that are
prone to aggregate in different brain regions. Aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides is …

[HTML][HTML] Patterning amyloid-β aggregation under the effect of acetylcholinesterase using a biological nanopore-an in vitro study

N Subramanian, B Watson, CZ Li, M Moss… - Sensors and actuators …, 2023 - Elsevier
Aggregation of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) is hypothesized to be the primary cause of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression. Aβ aggregation has been widely studied using …

Quantitation of Circulating Mycobacterium tuberculosis Antigens by Nanopore Biosensing in Children Evaluated for Pulmonary Tuberculosis in South Africa

X Wang, X Wei, MM van der Zalm, Z Zhang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nanopore sensing of proteomic biomarkers lacks accuracy due to the ultralow abundance of
targets, a wide variety of interferents in clinical samples, and the mismatch between pore …

Single-molecule profiling of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances by cyclodextrin mediated host-guest interactions within a biological nanopore

X Wei, A Choudhary, LY Wang, L Yang, MJ Uline… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Biological nanopores are increasingly used in molecular sensing due to their single-
molecule sensitivity. The detection of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) like …

Advances in electrochemical detection for probing protein aggregation

S Andreescu, A Vasilescu - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Electrochemistry provides an array of methods to investigate protein aggregation and
determine biomarkers of neurodenenerative diseases. Biosensors detecting monomeric or …

Detection of Biological Molecules Using Nanopore Sensing Techniques

I Șoldănescu, A Lobiuc, M Covașă, M Dimian - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Modern biomedical sensing techniques have significantly increased in precision and
accuracy due to new technologies that enable speed and that can be tailored to be highly …

Characterizing Prion‐Like Protein Aggregation: Emerging Nanopore‐Based Approaches

N Meyer, J Torrent, S Balme - Small Methods, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Prion‐like protein aggregation is characteristic of numerous neurodegenerative diseases,
such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. This process involves the formation of …