The emerging landscape of single-molecule protein sequencing technologies

JA Alfaro, P Bohländer, M Dai, M Filius, CJ Howard… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell profiling methods have had a profound impact on the understanding of cellular
heterogeneity. While genomes and transcriptomes can be explored at the single-cell level …

Biological nanopores for single-molecule sensing

SF Mayer, C Cao, M Dal Peraro - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Evolution has found countless ways to transport material across cells and cellular
compartments separated by membranes. Protein assemblies are the cornerstone for the …

Nanopore identification of alditol epimers and their application in rapid analysis of alditol-containing drinks and healthcare products

Y Liu, S Zhang, Y Wang, L Wang, Z Cao… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Alditols, which have a sweet taste but produce much lower calories than natural sugars, are
widely used as artificial sweeteners. Alditols are the reduced forms of monosaccharide …

Machine Learning Assisted Simultaneous Structural Profiling of Differently Charged Proteins in a Mycobacterium smegmatis Porin A (MspA) Electroosmotic Trap

Y Liu, K Wang, Y Wang, L Wang, S Yan… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The nanopore is emerging as a means of single-molecule protein sensing. However,
proteins demonstrate different charge properties, which complicates the design of a sensor …

Nanopore analysis of salvianolic acids in herbal medicines

P Fan, S Zhang, Y Wang, T Li, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Natural herbs, which contain pharmacologically active compounds, have been used
historically as medicines. Conventionally, the analysis of chemical components in herbal …

A generalizable nanopore sensor for highly specific protein detection at single-molecule precision

M Ahmad, JH Ha, LA Mayse, MF Presti… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Protein detection has wide-ranging implications in molecular diagnostics. Substantial
progress has been made in protein analytics using nanopores and the resistive-pulse …

Light‐Driven Conversion of Silicon Nitride Nanopore to Nanonet for Single‐Protein Trapping Analysis

J Li, B Huang, Y Wang, A Li, Y Wang, Y Pan… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The single‐molecule technique for investigation of an unlabeled protein in solution is very
attractive but with great challenges. Nanopore sensing as a label‐free tool can be used for …

Orientation-locked dna origami for stable trapping of small proteins in the nanopore electro-osmotic trap

C Wen, E Bertosin, X Shi, C Dekker, S Schmid - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanopores are versatile single-molecule sensors offering a simple label-free readout with
great sensitivity. We recently introduced the nanopore electro-osmotic trap (NEOtrap) which …

Disentangling the recognition complexity of a protein hub using a nanopore

LA Mayse, A Imran, MG Larimi, MS Cosgrove… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
WD40 repeat proteins are frequently involved in processing cell signaling and scaffolding
large multi-subunit machineries. Despite their significance in physiological and disease-like …

Mapping the conformational energy landscape of Abl kinase using ClyA nanopore tweezers

F Li, K Gilliam, R Pham, M Chen - Biophysical Journal, 2022 - cell.com
Protein kinases play central role in cellular regulation by catalyzing the phosphorylation of
target proteins involved in complex physiological processes, achieved by their structural …