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ArticleBiophysical journal2019

A Nanopore Approach for Analysis of Caspase-7 Activity in Cell Lysates.

Bach Pham, Scott J Eron, Maureen E Hill, Xin Li, Monifa A Fahie, Jeanne A Hardy, Min Chen

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Protein Analyte Sensing with an Outer Membrane Protein G (OmpG) Nanopore.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  3. Simulation of pH-Dependent, Loop-Based Membrane Protein Gating Using Pretzel.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  4. Engineering a Monomeric Nanopore Scaffold for Multiplexed Protein Detection.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  8. Barrel expansion of outer membrane protein G nanopore through β-hairpin duplication.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025
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  16. Real-Time and Label-Free Measurement of Deubiquitinase Activity with a MspA Nanopore.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Bach PhamDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Scott J EronDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Maureen E HillDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Xin LiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Monifa A FahieMolecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Jeanne A HardyDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts; Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Min ChenDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts; Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts. Electronic address: mchen1@chem.umass.edu.
University of Massachusetts Amherst · USAmherst College · US

Funding

CHEMISTRY-BIOLOGY INTERFACE PREDOCTORAL TRAINING GRANTST32GM008515 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI THOMPSON, LYNMARIE K. · 1995 to 2020
$4.3M
Control of Executioner Caspases with an allosteric switch - SupplementR01GM080532 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI HARDY, JEANNE ANN · 2008 to 2022
$3.8M
OmpG nanopore for single molecule protein sensingR01GM115442 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI CHEN, MIN · 2016 to 2020
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM080532NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM115442NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008515
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Caspases are an important protease family that coordinate inflammation and programmed cell death. Two closely related caspases, caspase-3 and caspase-7, exhibit largely overlapping substrate specificities. Assessing their proteolytic activities individually has therefore proven extremely challenging. Here, we constructed an outer membrane protein G (OmpG) nanopore with a caspase substrate sequence DEVDG grafted into one of the OmpG loops. Cleavage of the substrate sequence in the nanopore by caspase-7 generated a characteristic signal in the current recording of the OmpG nanopore that allowed the determination of the activity of caspase-7 in Escherichia coli cell lysates. Our approach may provide a framework for the activity-based profiling of proteases that share highly similar substrate specificity spectrums.

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NanoporesBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsCaspase 7Caspase 8Escherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsPorinsBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsCaspase 7Caspase 8Escherichia coli ProteinsOmpG protein, E coliPorins

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PMID31427065
PMCPMC6731459
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