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ArticlePolymers2018

Single-Molecule Dynamics and Discrimination between Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Amino Acids in Peptides, through Controllable, Stepwise Translocation across Nanopores.

Alina Asandei, Isabela S Dragomir, Giovanni Di Muccio, Mauro Chinappi, Yoonkyung Park, Tudor Luchian

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Article in Polymers, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Alina AsandeiInterdisciplinary Research Department, Alexandru I. Cuza University, 700506 Iasi, Romania. alina.asandei@uaic.ro.ORCID 0000-0002-4596-241X
Isabela S DragomirDepartment of Physics, Alexandru I. Cuza University, 700506 Iasi, Romania. isdragomir@yahoo.ro.
Giovanni Di MuccioDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, Italy. gio.dimuccio@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-1388-8806
Mauro ChinappiDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, Italy. mauro.chinappi@uniroma2.it.
Yoonkyung ParkDepartment of Biomedical Science and Research Center for Proteinaceous Materials (RCPM), Chosun University, Gwangju 61452, Korea. y_k_park@chosun.ac.kr.
Tudor LuchianDepartment of Physics, Alexandru I. Cuza University, 700506 Iasi, Romania. luchian@uaic.ro.ORCID 0000-0002-9388-7266
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University · ROUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata · ITChosun University · KR

Funding

Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0026
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this work, we demonstrate the proof-of-concept of real-time discrimination between patches of hydrophilic and hydrophobic monomers in the primary structure of custom-engineered, macro-dipole-like peptides, at uni-molecular level. We employed single-molecule recordings to examine the ionic current through the α-hemolysin (α-HL) nanopore, when serine or isoleucine residues, flanked by segments of oppositely charged arginine and glutamic amino acids functioning as a voltage-dependent "molecular brake" on the peptide, were driven at controllable rates across the nanopore. The observed differences in the ionic currents blockades through the nanopore, visible at time resolutions corresponding to peptide threading through the α-HL's constriction region, was explained by a simple model of the volumes of electrolyte excluded by either amino acid species, as groups of serine or isoleucine monomers transiently occupy the α-HL. To provide insights into the conditions ensuring optimal throughput of peptide readout through the nanopore, we probed the sidedness-dependence of peptide association to and dissociation from the electrically and geometrically asymmetric α-HL.

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electrophysiologynanoporepeptide sensingsingle-molecule sequencing

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PMID30960810
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