Nanopores: A journey towards DNA sequencing

M Wanunu - Physics of life reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Much more than ever, nucleic acids are recognized as key building blocks in many of lifeʼs
processes, and the science of studying these molecular wonders at the single-molecule …

Single molecule sensing with solid-state nanopores: novel materials, methods, and applications

BN Miles, AP Ivanov, KA Wilson, F Doğan… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
This tutorial review will introduce and explore the fundamental aspects of nanopore (bio)
sensing, fabrication, modification, and the emerging technologies and applications that both …

Stochastic sensing of proteins with receptor-modified solid-state nanopores

R Wei, R Tampé, U Rant - Biophysical Journal, 2012 - cell.com
Nanopores bear great potential as sensors for single molecules, which are detected as
resistive pulses in a simple electrical measurement. The investigation of proteins requires …

Comparing current noise in biological and solid-state nanopores

A Fragasso, S Schmid, C Dekker - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nanopores bear great potential as single-molecule tools for bioanalytical sensing and
sequencing, due to their exceptional sensing capabilities, high-throughput, and low cost …

An overview of molecular modeling for drug discovery with specific illustrative examples of applications

M Aminpour, C Montemagno, JA Tuszynski - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper we review the current status of high-performance computing applications in the
general area of drug discovery. We provide an introduction to the methodologies applied at …

DNA origami nanopores

NAW Bell, CR Engst, M Ablay, G Divitini, C Ducati… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate the assembly of functional hybrid nanopores for single molecule sensing by
inserting DNA origami structures into solid-state nanopores. In our experiments, single …

Single-molecule spectroscopy of amino acids and peptides by recognition tunnelling

Y Zhao, B Ashcroft, P Zhang, H Liu, S Sen… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The human proteome has millions of protein variants due to alternative RNA splicing and
post-translational modifications, and variants that are related to diseases are frequently …

Label-free optical analysis of biomolecules in solid-state nanopores: toward single-molecule protein sequencing

Y Zhao, M Iarossi, AF De Fazio, JA Huang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Sequence identification of peptides and proteins is central to proteomics. Protein
sequencing is mainly conducted by insensitive mass spectroscopy because proteins cannot …

Surface coatings for solid-state nanopores

OM Eggenberger, C Ying, M Mayer - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Since their introduction in 2001, solid-state nanopores have been increasingly exploited for
the detection and characterization of biomolecules ranging from single DNA strands to …

Differentiation of short, single-stranded DNA homopolymers in solid-state nanopores

K Venta, G Shemer, M Puster, JA Rodriguez-Manzo… - ACS …, 2013 - ACS Publications
In the last two decades, new techniques that monitor ionic current modulations as single
molecules pass through a nanoscale pore have enabled numerous single-molecule studies …