[HTML][HTML] Polymer translocation: the first two decades and the recent diversification

VV Palyulin, T Ala-Nissila, R Metzler - Soft matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Probably no other field of statistical physics at the borderline of soft matter and biological
physics has caused such a flurry of papers as polymer translocation since the 1994 …

[HTML][HTML] Polymer translocation and nanopore sequencing: a review of advances and challenges

SL Singh, K Chauhan, AS Bharadwaj… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Various biological processes involve the translocation of macromolecules across
nanopores; these pores are basically protein channels embedded in membranes …

Dynamics of driven polymer transport through a nanopore

K Chen, I Jou, N Ermann, M Muthukumar, UF Keyser… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The transport of polymers across nanoscale pores underpins many biological processes,
such as the ejection of bacteriophage DNA into a host cell and the transfer of genes …

Nonequilibrium dynamics of polymer translocation and straightening

T Sakaue - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2007 - APS
When a flexible polymer is sucked into a localized small hole, the chain can initially respond
only locally and the sequential nonequilibrium processes follow in line with the propagation …

[HTML][HTML] Stiff filamentous virus translocations through solid-state nanopores

A McMullen, HW De Haan, JX Tang, D Stein - Nature Communications, 2014 - nature.com
The ionic conductance through a nanometer-sized pore in a membrane changes when a
biopolymer slides through it, making nanopores sensitive to single molecules in solution …

[HTML][HTML] Asymmetric dynamics of DNA entering and exiting a strongly confining nanopore

NAW Bell, K Chen, S Ghosal, M Ricci… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
In nanopore sensing, changes in ionic current are used to analyse single molecules in
solution. The translocation dynamics of polyelectrolytes is of particular interest given …

Sucking genes into pores: Insight into driven translocation

T Sakaue - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2010 - APS
Flexible polymers such as long DNA, RNA molecules, and proteins, can pass through a
narrow pore whose size is comparable to their molecular thickness. We highlight the …

Pore translocation of knotted DNA rings

A Suma, C Micheletti - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
We use an accurate coarse-grained model for DNA and stochastic molecular dynamics
simulations to study the pore translocation of 10-kbp–long DNA rings that are knotted. By …

[HTML][HTML] Origins and consequences of velocity fluctuations during DNA passage through a nanopore

B Lu, F Albertorio, DP Hoogerheide, JA Golovchenko - Biophysical journal, 2011 - cell.com
We describe experiments and modeling results that reveal and explain the distribution of
times that identical double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) molecules take to pass through a voltage …

Driven polymer translocation through nanopores: Slow-vs.-fast dynamics

K Luo, T Ala-Nissila, SC Ying, R Metzler - Europhysics letters, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation through nanopores under external
driving by 3D Langevin Dynamics simulations, focusing on the scaling of the average …