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AksimentievLab

@aksimentievLab

We explore fascinating phenomena at the interface of physics, biology, and nanotechnology at the University of Illinois.
Loomis Laboratory, UIUC bionano.physics.illinois.edu Joined December 2019
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Great achievement from the Nivala lab! See also in News and Views:
"Thread, read, rewind, repeat: towards using nanopores for protein sequencing" nature.com/articles/d4158…
www.nature.com Thread, read, rewind, repeat: towards using nanopores for protein sequencing Nature - How to customize proteins to enable their sequences to be probed.
Published today in @Nature, we describe an approach for single-molecule protein reading on @nanopore arrays. By utilizing ClpX unfoldase to ratchet proteins through a CsgG nanopore, we achieved single-amino-acid sensitivity. nature.com/articles/s4158…
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The variation of the electric field around a DNA duplex is surprisingly complex. Now, a nonlocal electrostatic theory can explain most of the features seen in all-atom MD simulations. Many thanks to Alexei Kornyshev, @JonathanGHedley @KushCoshic and @LeverhulmeTrust
A theoretical analysis of the complex electric field around DNA uncovers the origin of oscillating field patterns and sheds light on the role of the solvent that surrounds the DNA.

Read go.aps.org/47hR1Bn

@JonathanGHedley @KushCoshic @aksimentievLab

#PRXBio, #PRXChem
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Have a nanopore but not happy with its ion selectivity or electroosmotic effect? You can easily improve both! Find out how: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…
Thanks to @WanunuLab and Zuzanna Siwy for this great collaboration. Congrats to Behzad on another cover!
#MyACSCover #nanopores
pubs.acs.org Electro-osmotic Flow Generation via a Sticky Ion Action Abstract. Selective transport of ions through nanometer-sized pores is fundamental to cell biology and central to many technological processes such as wate