A single-molecule electrical approach for amino acid detection and chirality recognition.


Journal

Science advances
ISSN: 2375-2548
Titre abrégé: Sci Adv
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101653440

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
03 2021
Historique:
received: 21 08 2020
accepted: 15 01 2021
entrez: 4 3 2021
pubmed: 5 3 2021
medline: 5 3 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

One of the ultimate goals of analytic chemistry is to efficiently discriminate between amino acids. Here we demonstrate this ability using a single-molecule electrical methodology based on molecular nanocircuits formed from stable graphene-molecule-graphene single-molecule junctions. These molecular junctions are fabricated by covalently bonding a molecular machine featuring a permethylated-β-cyclodextrin between a pair of graphene point contacts. Using pH to vary the type and charge of the amino acids, we find distinct multimodal current fluctuations originating from the different host-guest interactions, consistent with theoretical calculations. These conductance data produce characteristic dwell times and shuttling rates for each amino acid, and allow accurate, statistical real-time, in situ measurements. Testing four amino acids and their enantiomers shows the ability to distinguish between them within a few microseconds, thus paving a facile and precise way to amino acid identification and even single-molecule protein sequencing.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33658198
pii: 7/10/eabe4365
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe4365
pmc: PMC7929498
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

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Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC).

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Auteurs

Zihao Liu (Z)

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China.

Xingxing Li (X)

Hefei National Laboratory for Physics Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.

Hiroshi Masai (H)

Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.

Xinyi Huang (X)

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China.

Susumu Tsuda (S)

Department of Chemistry, Osaka Dental University, Osaka 573-1121, Japan.

Jun Terao (J)

Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan. guoxf@pku.edu.cn jlyang@ustc.edu.cn cterao@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Jinlong Yang (J)

Hefei National Laboratory for Physics Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China. guoxf@pku.edu.cn jlyang@ustc.edu.cn cterao@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Xuefeng Guo (X)

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China. guoxf@pku.edu.cn jlyang@ustc.edu.cn cterao@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China.

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