Real-time single-molecule electronic DNA sequencing by synthesis using polymer-tagged nucleotides on a nanopore array

Autor: James Pollard, Zengmin Li, Ashwini Bhat, Andrew Trans, Jennifer Hovis, Minchen Chien, Cleoma Arnold, Edward Shian Liu, Arek Bibillo, Randy Davis, John J. Kasianowicz, Mirko Palla, James J. Russo, Mintu Porel, Irina Morozova, Wenjing Guo, Jingyue Ju, Shundi Shi, Cynthia Cech, Shiv Kumar, Eric Takeshi Harada, Chuanjuan Tao, Carl W. Fuller, Alexander Yang, Michael Dorwart, Stefan Roever, Roger Chen, Anne Aguirre, George M. Church, Daniel Korenblum, P. Benjamin Stranges, Sergey Kalachikov
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113:5233-5238
ISSN: 1091-6490
0027-8424
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1601782113
Popis: DNA sequencing by synthesis (SBS) offers a robust platform to decipher nucleic acid sequences. Recently, we reported a single-molecule nanopore-based SBS strategy that accurately distinguishes four bases by electronically detecting and differentiating four different polymer tags attached to the 5'-phosphate of the nucleotides during their incorporation into a growing DNA strand catalyzed by DNA polymerase. Further developing this approach, we report here the use of nucleotides tagged at the terminal phosphate with oligonucleotide-based polymers to perform nanopore SBS on an α-hemolysin nanopore array platform. We designed and synthesized several polymer-tagged nucleotides using tags that produce different electrical current blockade levels and verified they are active substrates for DNA polymerase. A highly processive DNA polymerase was conjugated to the nanopore, and the conjugates were complexed with primer/template DNA and inserted into lipid bilayers over individually addressable electrodes of the nanopore chip. When an incoming complementary-tagged nucleotide forms a tight ternary complex with the primer/template and polymerase, the tag enters the pore, and the current blockade level is measured. The levels displayed by the four nucleotides tagged with four different polymers captured in the nanopore in such ternary complexes were clearly distinguishable and sequence-specific, enabling continuous sequence determination during the polymerase reaction. Thus, real-time single-molecule electronic DNA sequencing data with single-base resolution were obtained. The use of these polymer-tagged nucleotides, combined with polymerase tethering to nanopores and multiplexed nanopore sensors, should lead to new high-throughput sequencing methods.
Databáze: OpenAIRE