Dynamics of driven polymer transport through a nanopore

被引:47
作者
Chen, Kaikai [1 ]
Jou, Ining [2 ]
Ermann, Niklas [1 ]
Muthukumar, Murugappan [2 ]
Keyser, Ulrich F. [1 ]
Bell, Nicholas A. W. [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge, England
[2] Univ Massachusetts, Polymer Sci & Engn Dept, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[3] Francis Crick Inst, London, England
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
DNA TRANSLOCATIONS; MOLECULES; PORE; VELOCITY;
D O I
10.1038/s41567-021-01268-2
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The transport of polymers across nanoscale pores underpins many biological processes, such as the ejection of bacteriophage DNA into a host cell and the transfer of genes between bacteria. The movement of polymers into and out of confinement is also the basis for a wide range of sensing technologies used for single-molecule detection and sequencing. Acquiring an accurate understanding of the translocation dynamics is an essential step in the quantitative analysis of polymer structure, including the localization of binding sites or sequences. Here we use synthetic nanopores and nanostructured DNA molecules to directly measure the velocity profile of driven polymer translocation through synthetic nanopores. Our results reveal a two-stage behaviour in which the translocation initially slows with time before accelerating close to the end of the process. We also find distinct local velocity correlations as the DNA polymer chain passes through the nanopore. Brownian dynamics simulations show that the two-stage behaviour is associated with tension propagation, with correlations arising from the random-walk conformation in which the DNA begins. A study of the dynamics of polymer translocation through synthetic nanopores provides a direct observation of tension propagation-a non-equilibrium description of the process of unfolding that a polymer undergoes during translocation.
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页码:1043 / +
页数:10
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