Single-molecule DNA detection with an engineered MspA protein nanopore

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 52, 2008, Pages 20647-20652

  Butler, Tom Z ^a   Pavlenok, Mikhail ^b   Derrington, Ian M ^a   Niederweis, Michael ^b   Gundlach, Jens H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio nanotechnology; DNA sequencing; Protein engineering

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MSPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NANOPORE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; MUTATION, MISSENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PORINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 58549116498     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807514106     Document Type: Article

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