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ArticleNature communications2017

Nanopore extended field-effect transistor for selective single-molecule biosensing.

Ren Ren, Yanjun Zhang, Binoy Paulose Nadappuram, Bernice Akpinar, David Klenerman, Aleksandar P Ivanov, Joshua B Edel, Yuri Korchev

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Article in Nature communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
40citing papers in PubMed
7.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 142 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Ren RenDepartment of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK.
Yanjun ZhangDepartment of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK. yanjun.zhang@imperial.ac.uk.
Binoy Paulose NadappuramDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
Bernice AkpinarDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
David KlenermanDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK.
Aleksandar P IvanovDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK. alex.ivanov@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1419-1381
Joshua B EdelDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK. joshua.edel@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5870-8659
Yuri KorchevDepartment of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK.
Imperial College London · GBNational University of Science and Technology · RUTianjin Medical University General Hospital · CNUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

European Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There has been a significant drive to deliver nanotechnological solutions to biosensing, yet there remains an unmet need in the development of biosensors that are affordable, integrated, fast, capable of multiplexed detection, and offer high selectivity for trace analyte detection in biological fluids. Herein, some of these challenges are addressed by designing a new class of nanoscale sensors dubbed nanopore extended field-effect transistor (nexFET) that combine the advantages of nanopore single-molecule sensing, field-effect transistors, and recognition chemistry. We report on a polypyrrole functionalized nexFET, with controllable gate voltage that can be used to switch on/off, and slow down single-molecule DNA transport through a nanopore. This strategy enables higher molecular throughput, enhanced signal-to-noise, and even heightened selectivity via functionalization with an embedded receptor. This is shown for selective sensing of an anti-insulin antibody in the presence of its IgG isotype.Efficient detection of single molecules is vital to many biosensing technologies, which require analytical platforms with high selectivity and sensitivity. Ren et al. combine a nanopore sensor and a field-effect transistor, whereby gate voltage mediates DNA and protein transport through the nanopore.

Indexed as

Biosensing TechniquesDNAInsulinNanoporesNanostructuresNanotechnologySensitivity and SpecificityDNAInsulin

Identifiers

PMID28928405
PMCPMC5605549
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