Crowding-Induced DNA Translocation through a Protein Nanopore

A crowded cellular environment is highly associated with many significant biological processes. However, the effect of molecular crowding on the translocation behavior of DNA through a pore has not been explored. Here, we use nanopore single-molecule analytical technique to quantify the thermodynamics and kinetics of DNA transport under heterogeneous cosolute PEGs. The results demonstrate that the frequency of the translocation event exhibits a nonmonotonic dependence on the crowding agent size, while both the event frequency and translocation time increase monotonically with increasing crowder concentration. In the presence of PEGs, the rate of DNA capture into the nanopore elevates 118.27-fold, and at the same time the translocation velocity decreases from 20 to 120 μs/base. Interestingly, the impact of PEG 4k on the DNA-nanopore interaction is the most notable, with up to ΔΔG = 16.27 kJ mol-1 change in free energy and 764.50-fold increase in the binding constant at concentration of 40% (w/v). The molecular crowding effect will has broad applications in nanopore biosensing and nanopore DNA sequencing in which the strategy to capture analyte and to control the transport is urgently required.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:92

Enthalten in:

Analytical chemistry - 92(2020), 5 vom: 03. März, Seite 3827-3833

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yao, Fujun [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Xiao [VerfasserIn]
Su, Zhuoqun [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Yanli [VerfasserIn]
Kang, Xiao-Feng [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3WJQ0SDW1A
9007-49-2
DNA
DNA, Single-Stranded
Journal Article
Lipid Bilayers
Polyethylene Glycols
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 13.01.2021

Date Revised 13.01.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05249

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM306428695