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 …

Machine learning for functional protein design

P Notin, N Rollins, Y Gal, C Sander, D Marks - Nature biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Recent breakthroughs in AI coupled with the rapid accumulation of protein sequence and
structure data have radically transformed computational protein design. New methods …

Unambiguous discrimination of all 20 proteinogenic amino acids and their modifications by nanopore

K Wang, S Zhang, X Zhou, X Yang, X Li, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Natural proteins are composed of 20 proteinogenic amino acids and their post-translational
modifications (PTMs). However, due to the lack of a suitable nanopore sensor that can …

Peptide sequencing based on host–guest interaction-assisted nanopore sensing

Y Zhang, Y Yi, Z Li, K Zhou, L Liu, HC Wu - Nature methods, 2024 - nature.com
Direct protein sequencing technologies with improved sensitivity and throughput are still
needed. Here, we propose an alternative method for peptide sequencing based on …

Translocation of linearized full-length proteins through an engineered nanopore under opposing electrophoretic force

A Sauciuc, B Morozzo della Rocca, MJ Tadema… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Nanopores have recently been used to identify and fingerprint proteins. However, because
proteins, unlike DNA, do not have a uniform charge, the electrophoretic force cannot in …

Multi-pass, single-molecule nanopore reading of long protein strands

K Motone, D Kontogiorgos-Heintz, J Wee, K Kurihara… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The ability to sequence single protein molecules in their native, full-length form would
enable a more comprehensive understanding of proteomic diversity. Current technologies …

Enzyme-less nanopore detection of post-translational modifications within long polypeptides

P Martin-Baniandres, WH Lan, S Board… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Means to analyse cellular proteins and their millions of variants at the single-molecule level
would uncover substantial information previously unknown to biology. Nanopore …

MoS2 nanopore identifies single amino acids with sub-1 Dalton resolution

F Wang, C Zhao, P Zhao, F Chen, D Qiao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The sequencing of single protein molecules using nanopores is faced with a huge challenge
due to the lack of resolution needed to resolve single amino acids. Here we report the direct …

Engineering biological nanopore approaches toward protein sequencing

X Wei, T Penkauskas, JE Reiner, C Kennard… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biotechnological innovations have vastly improved the capacity to perform large-scale
protein studies, while the methods we have for identifying and quantifying individual proteins …

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 …