DIRECT SEQUENCING BIOMOLECULES AND MODIFICATIONS THEREOF WITH TUNNELING ENHANCED OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY ON NANOPORE CHIP

    公开(公告)号:US20250002990A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-02

    申请号:US18709791

    申请日:2022-11-14

    Abstract: Disclosed are a nanopore-optical electronic device and a method for sequencing a biomolecule and modifications thereof. The nanopore-optical electronic device includes: a cis-fluidic chamber and a trans-fluidic chamber fabricated in a planar substrate; a nano-fluidic channel in between and connecting the cis-fluidic chamber and the trans-fluidic chamber; a first electrode and a second electrode sealed in the nano-fluidic channel and forming a nanogap/nanopore therebetween; a third electrode and fourth electrode disposed in the cis-fluidic chamber and the trans-fluidic chamber, respectively; an optical coupling element coupling an electromagnetic beam with the nanogap; an optical detector detecting an optical signal from the nanogap when a biomolecule translocates through the nanopore; and a current-measuring circuit concurrently measuring a tunneling current and ionic current when the biomolecule translocates through the nanopore. The recorded optical signal and tunneling current and ionic current signals are coincidental in time and colocalized in space.

    NANOPORE BASED SEQUENCER
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170204066A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-07-20

    申请号:US15417903

    申请日:2017-01-27

    Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems, devices and methods for identifying biopolymers, such as strands of DNA, as they pass through a constriction such as a carbon nanotube nanopore. More particularly, the invention is directed to such systems, devices and methods in which a newly translocated portion of the biopolymer forms a temporary electrical circuit between the nanotube nanopore and a second electrode, which may also be a nanotube. Further, the invention is directed to such systems, devices and methods in which the constriction is provided with a functionalized unit which, together with a newly translocated portion of the biopolymer, forms a temporary electrical circuit that can be used to characterize that portion of the biopolymer.

    DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TARGET MOLECULE CHARACTERIZATION
    6.
    发明申请
    DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TARGET MOLECULE CHARACTERIZATION 审中-公开
    目标分子特征的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20170003245A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-05

    申请号:US15203383

    申请日:2016-07-06

    Abstract: An system for recognition of a translocating polymetric target molecule includes a device having at least one constriction that is sized to permit translocation of only a single copy of the molecule. A pair of spaced apart sensing electrodes border the constriction, which may be a nonopore. The first electrode is connected to a first affinity element and the second electrode is connected to a second affinity element. Each affinity element may connected to its corresponding electrode via one or more intermediary compounds, such as a linker molecule and/or an electrode attachment molecule. The first and second affinity elements are configured to temporarily form hydrogen bonds with first and second portions of the target molecule as the latter passes through the constriction. During translocation, the electrodes affinity elements and first and second portions of the target molecule complete an electrical circuit and allow a measurable electrical current to pass between the first and second electrodes. The time-varying nature of this electrical current, and the specific affinity elements employed, allow one to characterize the target molecule.

    Abstract translation: 用于识别易位多分子靶分子的系统包括具有至少一个收缩部的装置,其尺寸被确定为允许仅分解单个拷贝的易位。 一对间隔开的感应电极与收缩部分相邻,其可以是非孔。 第一电极连接到第一亲和元件,第二电极连接到第二亲和元件。 每个亲和元件可以经由一种或多种中间化合物,例如连接体分子和/或电极附着分子连接到其对应的电极。 第一和第二亲和元件配置成与靶分子的第一和第二部分暂时形成氢键,因为它们经过收缩部。 在易位期间,电极亲和元件和目标分子的第一和第二部分完成电路并允许可测量的电流在第一和第二电极之间通过。 该电流的随时间变化特性以及所使用的特异亲和元件允许表征靶分子。

    DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TARGET MOLECULE CHARACTERIZATION

    公开(公告)号:US20190317040A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-17

    申请号:US16389859

    申请日:2019-04-19

    Abstract: An system for recognition of a translocating polymeric target molecule includes a device having at least one constriction that is sized to permit translocation of only a single copy of the molecule. A pair of spaced apart sensing electrodes border the constriction, which may be a nanopore. The first electrode is connected to a first affinity element and the second electrode is connected to a second affinity element. Each affinity element may be connected to its corresponding electrode via one or more intermediary compounds, such as a linker molecule and/or an electrode attachment molecule. The first and second affinity elements are configured to temporarily form hydrogen bonds with first and second portions of the target molecule as the latter passes through the constriction. During translocation, the electrodes, affinity elements and first and second portions of the target molecule complete an electrical circuit and allow a measurable electrical current to pass between the first and second electrodes. The time-varying nature of this electrical current, and the specific affinity elements employed, allow one to characterize the target molecule.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SINGLE MOLECULE DETECTION

    公开(公告)号:US20180120286A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-03

    申请号:US15797052

    申请日:2017-10-30

    Abstract: A single molecule sensing or detecting device includes a first electrode and a second electrode separated from the first electrode by a gap. The first electrode and the second electrode have an opening formed therethrough. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is functionalized with a recognition molecule. The recognition molecule has an effective length L1 and is configured to selectively bind to a target molecule having an effective length L2. The size of the gap is configured to be greater than 2L1, but less than or equal to the sum of 2L1 and L2.

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