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ArticleJACS Au2025

A Workflow Enabling the Automated Synthesis, Chain-End Degradation, and Rapid Mass Spectrometry Analysis for Molecular Information Storage in Sequence-Defined Oligourethanes.

Julia R Shuluk, Christopher D Wight, James R Howard, Mary E King, Sarah R Moor, Rachel J DeHoog, Samuel D Dahlhauser, Livia S Eberlin, Eric V Anslyn

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Article in JACS Au, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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9 authors.

Julia R ShulukDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1851-884X
Christopher D WightDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3389-1762
James R HowardDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9184-6954
Mary E KingDepartment of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, United States.
Sarah R MoorDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5579-407X
Rachel J DeHoogDepartment of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, United States.
Samuel D DahlhauserDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4034-5172
Livia S EberlinDepartment of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3885-3215
Eric V AnslynDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5137-8797

Funding

Bruker AVANCE III HD 500 MHz NMRS10OD021508 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI SESSLER, JONATHAN L · 2016 to 2016
$529k
NIH HHS S10 OD021508
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The field of molecular information storage has recently expanded to include abiotic sequence-defined polymers. While robust methods have been developed, there is a current bottleneck in the throughput of this work as information density is increased. Herein, we introduce an automated workflow in which a commercial peptide synthesizer composed of a single XYZ liquid-handling robot was adapted to both synthesize and sequence sequence-defined oligourethanes. Our sequencing method was improved to cut down the number of samples required for each oligomer from 13 to one. Additionally, we introduce the use of desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry as our analysis method for sequencing, which allowed for simplified and increased speed of data acquisition. Finally, we created a Python script that is able to reconstruct the sequence information from the MS data in an automated fashion. We demonstrate this new workflow by encoding and decoding a quote from the late Maya Angelou: "When you learn, teach, when you get, give".

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PMCPMC11937967

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