An engineered electroosmotic flow transports unravelled proteins across nanopores
Sauciuc, A.; Morozzo, B.; Tadema, M.; Chinappi, M.; Maglia, G.
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The development of a technology capable of sequencing single proteins holds promise to unravel new biological information hidden in ensemble analysis. However, new techniques must be first developed. In one approach, proteins are unfolded and translocate across a nanopore under an external bias. Unlike DNA, however, proteins do not have a uniform charge, and the electrophoretic force cannot be used to translocate proteins. Here, we show that by introducing sets of charges spaced by ~1 nm an otherwise neutral nanopore an electroosmotic force is created that induces the unidirectional transport of polypeptides, even against relatively strong electrophoretic forces. Unstructured polypeptides and native proteins unfolded with urea produce current signatures as they traversed the nanopore, which could lead to quick protein identifcation. This approach can be used to translocate and stretch proteins in non-enzymatic protein identification and enzymatic protein sequencing approaches.
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