Solid-state and biological nanopore for real-time sensing of single chemical and sequencing of DNA

F Haque, J Li, HC Wu, XJ Liang, P Guo - Nano today, 2013 - Elsevier
Sensitivity and specificity are two most important factors to take into account for molecule
sensing, chemical detection and disease diagnosis. A perfect sensitivity is to reach the level …

Engineering of protein nanopores for sequencing, chemical or protein sensing and disease diagnosis

S Wang, Z Zhao, F Haque, P Guo - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Nanopore offers single molecule detection with high specificity and
sensitivity.•Protein pores have emerged as a versatile platform for single molecule …

Highly sensitive and selective DNA-based detection of mercury (II) with α-hemolysin nanopore

S Wen, T Zeng, L Liu, K Zhao, Y Zhao… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The duplex formation mediated by Hg2+ in a properly designed ssDNA generates a stable
hairpin structure, which greatly alters the translocation profile of the ssDNA through α …

Engineered nanopore of Phi29 DNA-packaging motor for real-time detection of single colon cancer specific antibody in serum

S Wang, F Haque, PG Rychahou, BM Evers, P Guo - ACS nano, 2013 - ACS Publications
The ingenious design of the bacterial virus phi29 DNA packaging nanomotor with an
elegant and elaborate channel has inspired its application for single molecule detection of …

Portal protein: the orchestrator of capsid assembly for the dsDNA tailed bacteriophages and herpesviruses

CL Dedeo, G Cingolani… - Annual review of virology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Tailed, double-stranded DNA bacteriophages provide a well-characterized model system for
the study of viral assembly, especially for herpesviruses and adenoviruses. A wealth of …

Biological nanomotors with a revolution, linear, or rotation motion mechanism

P Guo, H Noji, CM Yengo, Z Zhao… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
The ubiquitous biological nanomotors were classified into two categories in the past: linear
and rotation motors. In 2013, a third type of biomotor, revolution without rotation …

Biological nanopores for sensing applications

M Zhang, C Chen, Y Zhang… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biological nanopores are proteins with transmembrane pore that can be embedded in lipid
bilayer. With the development of single‐channel current measurement technologies …

Real-time sensing and discrimination of single chemicals using the channel of phi29 DNA packaging nanomotor

F Haque, J Lunn, H Fang, D Smithrud, P Guo - ACS nano, 2012 - ACS Publications
A highly sensitive and reliable method to sense and identify a single chemical at extremely
low concentrations and high contamination is important for environmental surveillance …

[HTML][HTML] Nipple fluid for breast cancer diagnosis using the nanopore of Phi29 DNA-packaging motor

L Zhang, N Burns, Z Ji, S Sun, SL Deutscher… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Detection of cancer in its early stage is a challenging task for oncologists. Inflammatory
breast cancer has symptoms that are similar to mastitis and can be mistaken for microbial …

Analysis with biological nanopore: On-pore, off-pore strategies and application in biological fluids

Y Wang, Y Zhang, X Chen, X Guan, L Wang - Talanta, 2021 - Elsevier
Inspired from ion channels in biology, nanopores have been developed as promising
analytical tools. In principle, nanopores provide crucial information from the observation and …