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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Size-dependent forced PEG partitioning into channels: VDAC, OmpC, and α-hemolysin.

M Alphan Aksoyoglu, Rudolf Podgornik, Sergey M Bezrukov, Philip A Gurnev, Murugappan Muthukumar, V Adrian Parsegian

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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M Alphan AksoyogluDepartment of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003;
Rudolf PodgornikDepartment of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003; Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; Department of Theoretical Physics, J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; rudolf.podgornik@ijs.si bezrukos@mail.nih.gov.
Sergey M BezrukovSection on Molecular Transport, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892; rudolf.podgornik@ijs.si bezrukos@mail.nih.gov.
Philip A GurnevDepartment of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003; Section on Molecular Transport, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892;
Murugappan MuthukumarDepartment of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.
V Adrian ParsegianDepartment of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003;

Funding

Biophysics of Large Membrane ChannelsZIAHD000072 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI BEZRUKOV, SERGEY M · 2009 to 2025
$22.8M
Modeling Macromolecular Transport through Protein Channels and NanoporesR01HG002776 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI MUTHUKUMAR, MURUGAPPAN · 2003 to 2022
$5.3M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG002776
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nonideal polymer mixtures of PEGs of different molecular weights partition differently into nanosize protein channels. Here, we assess the validity of the recently proposed theoretical approach of forced partitioning for three structurally different β-barrel channels: voltage-dependent anion channel from outer mitochondrial membrane VDAC, bacterial porin OmpC (outer membrane protein C), and bacterial channel-forming toxin α-hemolysin. Our interpretation is based on the idea that relatively less-penetrating polymers push the more easily penetrating ones into nanosize channels in excess of their bath concentration. Comparison of the theory with experiments is excellent for VDAC. Polymer partitioning data for the other two channels are consistent with theory if additional assumptions regarding the energy penalty of pore penetration are included. The obtained results demonstrate that the general concept of "polymers pushing polymers" is helpful in understanding and quantification of concrete examples of size-dependent forced partitioning of polymers into protein nanopores.

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Bacterial ToxinsElectrolytesHemolysin ProteinsOsmotic PressurePolyethylene GlycolsPorinsVoltage-Dependent Anion ChannelsBacterial ToxinsElectrolytesHemolysin ProteinsOmpC proteinPolyethylene GlycolsPorinsstaphylococcal alpha-toxinVoltage-Dependent Anion Channelsmacromolecular crowdingnanopore-based sensingpolymer confinementpolymer transportβ-barrel pores

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PMID27466408
PMCPMC4987803

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