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Uses of aerolysin nanopores

Hilal Lashuel, Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao

The invention relates to use of an aerolysin nanopore for the discrimination of different protein isoforms bearing different post-translational modifications (PTMs) and to methods for detecting adverse medical conditions associated with the presence of pep ...

2025

Mutant aerolysin and uses thereof

Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao

Provided herein are aerolysin polypeptides and/or mutant aerolysin monomers comprising modified amino acid sequences that could have improved substrate analyte, such as (poly)nucleotide and peptide, improved reading properties such as enhanced substrate an ...

2024

A humoral stress response protects Drosophila tissues from antimicrobial peptides

Bruno Lemaitre, Matteo Dal Peraro, Jean Philippe Boquete, Chan Cao, Samuel Rommelaere, Fernando Augusto Teixeira Pinto Meireles, Alexia Laurie Carboni

An efficient immune system must provide protection against a broad range of pathogens without causing excessive collateral tissue damage. While immune effectors have been well characterized, we know less about the resilience mechanisms protecting the host ...

Elsevier BV2024

Single-molecule evidence of Entropic Pulling by Hsp70 chaperones

Paolo De Los Rios, Chan Cao, Mathieu Rebeaud

Hsp70 chaperones are central components of the cellular network that ensures the structural quality of proteins. Despite crucial roles in processes such as protein disaggregation and protein translocation into organelles, their physical mechanism of action ...

Nature Research2024

Deep Learning-Assisted Single-Molecule Detection of Protein Post-translational Modifications with a Biological Nanopore

Hilal Lashuel, Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Lucien Fabrice Krapp, Simon Finn Mayer, Juan Francisco Bada Juarez, Anass Chiki, Pedro José Santana Ribeiro Magalhães

Protein post-translational modifications (PTMs) play a crucial role in countless biological processes, profoundly modulating protein properties on both spatial and temporal scales. Protein PTMs have also emerged as reliable biomarkers for several diseases. ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Systems and methods for digital information decoding and data storage in hybrid macromolecules

Aleksandra Radenovic, Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Lucien Fabrice Krapp

Systems and methods for data storage and readout using hybrid nucleic acid- polymeric molecules are herein disclosed. A molecular data storage medium is presented comprising a header and a footer, each comprising or consisting of at least one unit of a fir ...

2022

Bacterial nanopores open the future of data storage

Aleksandra Radenovic, Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Lucien Fabrice Krapp, Alissa Agerova

In the era of "big data" finding solutions for data storage alternative to those based on silicon or magnetic tapes is an urgent need for our society. The development of polymers that can store information at the molecular level has opened up new opportuni ...

IEEE2022

Biological nanopores for single-molecule sensing

Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Simon Finn Mayer

Evolution has found countless ways to transport material across cells and cellular compartments separated by membranes. Protein assemblies are the cornerstone for the formation of channels and pores that enable this regulated passage of molecules in and ou ...

2022

Ultrasensitive Label-Free Detection of Protein–Membrane Interaction Exemplified by Toxin-Liposome Insertion

Sylvie Roke, Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Halil Ibrahim Okur, Mircea Ioan Iacovache, Tereza Schönfeldová

Measuring the high-affinity binding of proteins to liposome membranes remains a challenge. Here, we show an ultrasensitive and direct detection of protein binding to liposome membranes using high throughput second harmonic scattering (SHS). Perfringolysin ...

2022

Mutant aerolysin and uses thereof

Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao

Aerolysin polypeptides and/or mutant aerolysin monomers include modified amino acid sequences that could have improved substrate analyte, such as (poly)nucleotide and peptide, improved reading properties such as enhanced substrate analyte capture and impro ...

2022