Nanopore-based technologies beyond DNA sequencing

YL Ying, ZL Hu, S Zhang, Y Qing, A Fragasso… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Inspired by the biological processes of molecular recognition and transportation across
membranes, nanopore techniques have evolved in recent decades as ultrasensitive …

Solid-state nanochannels for bio-marker analysis

Y Huang, L Liu, C Luo, W Liu, X Lou, L Jiang… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Bio-markers, such as ions, small molecules, nucleic acids, peptides, proteins and cells,
participate in the construction of living organisms and play important roles in biological …

Glycosaminoglycans: what remains to be deciphered?

S Perez, O Makshakova, J Angulo, E Bedini, A Bisio… - Jacs Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are complex polysaccharides exhibiting a vast structural
diversity and fulfilling various functions mediated by thousands of interactions in the …

Anomalies of ionic/molecular transport in nano and sub-nano confinement

M Wang, Y Hou, L Yu, X Hou - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Understanding and exploring the transport behaviors of ions and molecules in the nano and
sub-nano confinement has great meaning in the fields of nanofluidics and basic transport …

Mapping the acetylamino and carboxyl groups on glycans by engineered α-hemolysin nanopores

B Xia, J Fang, S Ma, M Ma, G Yao, T Li… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Glycan is a crucial class of biological macromolecules with important biological functions.
Functional groups determine the chemical properties of glycans, which further affect their …

Nanopore DNA sequencing technologies and their applications towards single-molecule proteomics

A Dorey, S Howorka - Nature chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Sequencing of nucleic acids with nanopores has emerged as a powerful tool offering rapid
readout, high accuracy, low cost and portability. This label-free method for sequencing at the …

Ovarian stiffness increases with age in the mammalian ovary and depends on collagen and hyaluronan matrices

F Amargant, SL Manuel, Q Tu, WS Parkes, F Rivas… - Aging cell, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fibrosis is a hallmark of aging tissues which often leads to altered architecture and function.
The ovary is the first organ to show overt signs of aging, including increased fibrosis in the …

Innovative chemical tools to address analytical challenges of protein phosphorylation and glycosylation

M Li, Y Xiong, G Qing - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Protein post-translational modifications (PTMs) modulate almost all cellular
processes. Aberrant PTMs are closely bound to various human diseases, which greatly …

Identification of tagged glycans with a protein nanopore

M Li, Y Xiong, Y Cao, C Zhang, Y Li, H Ning… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Structural complexity of glycans derived from the diversities in composition, linage,
configuration, and branching considerably complicates structural analysis. Nanopore-based …

Comprehensive structural assignment of glycosaminoglycan oligo-and polysaccharides by protein nanopore

P Bayat, C Rambaud, B Priem, M Bourderioux… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Glycosaminoglycans are highly anionic functional polysaccharides with information content
in their structure that plays a major role in the communication between the cell and the …