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NANO LETTERS
Volume 8, Issue 9, Pages 3029-3034Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl802312f
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- NSF CAREER [0644442]
- Directorate For Engineering [0644442] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [0644442] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Nanopores have been used as extremely sensitive resistive pulse sensors to detect analytes at the molecular level. There has been interest in using such a scheme to rapidly and inexpensively sequence single molecules of DNA. To establish reference current levels for adenine, cytosine, and thymine nucleotides, we measured the blockage currents following immobilization of single-stranded DNA polyadenine, polycytosine, and polythymine within a protein nanopore in chemical orientations in which either the 3 ' or the 5 ' end enters the pore. Immobilization resulted in low-noise measurements, yielding sharply defined current distributions for each base that enabled clear discrimination of the nucleotides in both orientations, In addition, we find that not only is the blockage current for each polyhomonucleotide orientation dependent, but also the changes in orientation affect the blockage currents for each base differently. This dependence can affect the ability to resolve polyadenine and polythymine; with the 5 ' end entering the pore, the separation between polyadenine and polythymine is double that observed for the 3 ' orientation. This suggests that, for better resolution, DNA should be threaded through the 5 ' end first in nanopore DNA sequencing experiments.
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