Yamaji Misa, Chinappi Mauro, Morozzo Della Rocca Blasco, Usui Kenji, Kawano Ryuji
Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), 2-24-16 Naka-cho Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan.
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Roma, Italy.
Anal Chem. 2025 Feb 4;97(4):2044-2051. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c04150. Epub 2025 Jan 22.
Nanopore sensing is widely used for single-molecule detection, originally applied to nucleic acids and now extended to protein sensing. Our study focuses on the complex conformational changes of peptides in nanopores, which may have implications for peptide fingerprinting and protein identification. Specifically, we investigated the interaction of a β-hairpin peptide (SV28) within an α-hemolysin (αHL) nanopore. Our experiments revealed that SV28 is captured via dielectrophoresis and exhibits long dwell times within the nanopore, leading to multiple current blockade levels. Unlike DNA hairpins, the peptide showed non-sequential transitions among four distinct blockade levels. This complex behavior indicates that the peptide dynamics in nanopores cannot be simply modeled along a single reaction coordinate. Our findings provide insights into peptide-nanopore interactions, which are potentially useful for developing nanopore-based peptide identification technologies.
纳米孔传感广泛应用于单分子检测,最初应用于核酸检测,现在已扩展到蛋白质传感。我们的研究聚焦于纳米孔中肽的复杂构象变化,这可能对肽指纹识别和蛋白质鉴定有影响。具体而言,我们研究了一种β-发夹肽(SV28)在α-溶血素(αHL)纳米孔中的相互作用。我们的实验表明,SV28通过介电泳捕获,并在纳米孔内表现出较长的驻留时间,导致多个电流阻断水平。与DNA发夹不同,该肽在四个不同的阻断水平之间呈现非顺序转变。这种复杂行为表明,纳米孔中肽的动力学不能简单地沿着单一反应坐标进行建模。我们的研究结果为肽-纳米孔相互作用提供了见解,这可能有助于开发基于纳米孔的肽鉴定技术。