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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2023

Nanopore Detection Using Supercharged Polypeptide Molecular Carriers.

Xiaoyi Wang, Tina-Marie Thomas, Ren Ren, Yu Zhou, Peng Zhang, Jingjing Li, Shenglin Cai, Kai Liu, Aleksandar P Ivanov, Andreas Herrmann and 1 more

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Xiaoyi WangDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, Molecular Science Research Hub, London W12 0BZ, U.K.
Tina-Marie ThomasDWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Forckenbeckstr. 50, 52056 Aachen, Germany.
Ren RenDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, Molecular Science Research Hub, London W12 0BZ, U.K.ORCID 0000-0001-8288-8012
Yu ZhouDWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Forckenbeckstr. 50, 52056 Aachen, Germany.
Peng ZhangState Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China.
Jingjing LiState Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7526-5308
Shenglin CaiDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, Molecular Science Research Hub, London W12 0BZ, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-7815-6406
Kai LiuEngineering Research Center of Advanced Rare Earth Materials, (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Aleksandar P IvanovDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, Molecular Science Research Hub, London W12 0BZ, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-1419-1381
Andreas HerrmannDWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Forckenbeckstr. 50, 52056 Aachen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8886-0894
Joshua B EdelDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, Molecular Science Research Hub, London W12 0BZ, U.K.ORCID 0000-0001-5870-8659
Imperial College London · GBDWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials · DEChinese Academy of Sciences · CNTsinghua University · CN

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/R022429/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The analysis at the single-molecule level of proteins and their interactions can provide critical information for understanding biological processes and diseases, particularly for proteins present in biological samples with low copy numbers. Nanopore sensing is an analytical technique that allows label-free detection of single proteins in solution and is ideally suited to applications, such as studying protein-protein interactions, biomarker screening, drug discovery, and even protein sequencing. However, given the current spatiotemporal limitations in protein nanopore sensing, challenges remain in controlling protein translocation through a nanopore and relating protein structures and functions with nanopore readouts. Here, we demonstrate that supercharged unstructured polypeptides (SUPs) can be genetically fused with proteins of interest and used as molecular carriers to facilitate nanopore detection of proteins. We show that cationic SUPs can substantially slow down the translocation of target proteins due to their electrostatic interactions with the nanopore surface. This approach enables the differentiation of individual proteins with different sizes and shapes via characteristic subpeaks in the nanopore current, thus facilitating a viable route to use polypeptide molecular carriers to control molecular transport and as a potential system to study protein-protein interactions at the single-molecule level.

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NanoporesAmino Acid SequenceNanotechnologyPeptidesProteinsPeptidesProteins

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PMID36897933
PMCPMC10037339
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