申请人:University of South Carolina
公开号:US20210372959A1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-02
The current disclosure provides a transformative concept based on nanopore technology, Sequencing-by-Hydrolysis, to identify the N-terminal amino acid and the length of each peptide fragment in a peptide ladder to reconstitute the sequence of a protein: a protein/peptide analyte will be nonspecifically hydrolyzed to generate random fragments of the analyte that are different by one amino acid with the N-terminal amino acid of each fragment modified so it generates a distinguishable fingerprint signal when tested by nanopore. The length of the fragment can be estimated by characterizing its translocation signal to back calculate the location of the amino acid in the original analyte. This approach will significantly advance the nanopore technology with single amino acid resolution for protein/peptide sequencing.