Nanopore-based technologies beyond DNA sequencing

YL Ying, ZL Hu, S Zhang, Y Qing, A Fragasso… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Inspired by the biological processes of molecular recognition and transportation across
membranes, nanopore techniques have evolved in recent decades as ultrasensitive …

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 …

Electro-osmotic capture and ionic discrimination of peptide and protein biomarkers with FraC nanopores

G Huang, K Willems, M Soskine, C Wloka… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Biological nanopores are nanoscale sensors employed for high-throughput, low-cost, and
long read-length DNA sequencing applications. The analysis and sequencing of proteins …

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 …

Nanopore-based single-biomolecule interfaces: from information to knowledge

YL Ying, YT Long - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019 - ACS Publications
Single-molecule measurements have greatly enhanced our understanding of living systems.
Biological systems offer nanopores, a sub-class of membrane proteins, the well-defined …

Membrane protein structure, function, and dynamics: a perspective from experiments and theory

Z Cournia, TW Allen, I Andricioaei, B Antonny… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Membrane proteins mediate processes that are fundamental for the flourishing of biological
cells. Membrane-embedded transporters move ions and larger solutes across membranes; …

Nanopore sensing of protein folding

W Si, A Aksimentiev - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
Single-molecule studies of protein folding hold keys to unveiling protein folding pathways
and elusive intermediate folding states attractive pharmaceutical targets. Although …

Electroosmotic trap against the electrophoretic force near a protein nanopore reveals peptide dynamics during capture and translocation

A Asandei, I Schiopu, M Chinappi, CH Seo… - … applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report on the ability to control the dynamics of a single peptide capture and passage
across a voltage-biased, α-hemolysin nanopore (α-HL), under conditions that the …

Protein sequencing, one molecule at a time

BM Floyd, EM Marcotte - Annual review of biophysics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Despite tremendous gains over the past decade, methods for characterizing proteins have
generally lagged behind those for nucleic acids, which are characterized by extremely high …