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通过电荷关联控制polymer易位和离子转运

Controlling polymer translocation and ion transport via charge correlations

Sahin Buyukdagli, Tapio Ala-Nissila

摘要:

我们开发了一个相关校正的传输理论,以预测平均场静电击穿的物理条件下膜纳米孔的离子和聚合物传输特性。实验观察到的低KCl电导率的开放α-溶血素孔的表面极化效应的存在定量解释。当DNA分子渗透到孔中时,这些极化力与DNA的电中性相结合,为离子电流设置了一个下限,解释了稀离子浓度下阻塞孔电导率的弱盐依赖性。向溶液中加入多价反离子导致聚合物电荷的反转和电渗流的方向。对于三价亚精胺或四价精胺分子,电荷反转足够强以阻止聚合物的移位并逆转其运动。这种机制可以有效地用于易位实验,以通过最小化聚合物的易位速度来提高DNA测序的准确性。

英文摘要:

We develop a correlation-corrected transport theory in order to predict ionic and polymer transport properties of membrane nanopores in physical conditions where mean-field electrostatics breaks down. The experimentally observed low KCl conductivity of open alpha-Hemolysin pores is quantitatively explained by the presence of surface polarization effects. Upon the penetration of a DNA molecule into the pore, these polarization forces combined with the electroneutrality of DNA sets a lower boundary for the ionic current, explaining the weak salt dependence of blocked pore conductivities at dilute ion concentrations. The addition of multivalent counterions into the solution results in the reversal of the polymer charge and the direction of the electroosmotic flow. With trivalent spermidine or quadrivalent spermine molecules, the charge inversion is strong enough to stop the translocation of the polymer and to reverse its motion. This mechanism can be used efficiently in translocation experiments in order to improve the accuracy of DNA sequencing by minimizing the translocation velocity of the polymer.

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