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Virgile Viasnoff¹, Nicolas Chiaruttini, Ulrich Bockelmann

¹Laboratoire de Nanobiophysique, CNRS, ESPCI ParisTech, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France. virgile.viasnoff@espci.fr

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Summary

Voltage-driven DNA unzipping through a nanopore depends on base pairing energy. Sequences with uniform energy profiles translocate faster than those with varied strengths, explained by biased random walk theory.

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Area of Science:

Nanopore sequencing
Biophysics
Molecular dynamics

Background:

Voltage-driven DNA translocation through nanopores is a key technique in molecular biology.
The energy landscape of DNA base pairing influences translocation dynamics.
Understanding these dynamics is crucial for DNA analysis and sequencing technologies.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how the DNA base pairing energy landscape affects voltage-driven unzipping dynamics.
To compare translocation speeds of DNA sequences with different energy profiles but equal global stability.

Main Methods:

Experimental setup using an alpha-hemolysin pore for DNA translocation.
Investigating two DNA sequences with identical global stability but differing base pairing energy profiles.
Theoretical modeling of voltage-driven translocation as a biased random walk.

Main Results:

DNA duplex unzipping speed is sensitive to the base pairing energy landscape.
Sequences with homogeneous energy profiles translocate significantly faster than those with heterogeneous regions.
Theoretical models qualitatively explain the observed translocation differences.

Conclusions:

The spatial distribution of base pairing strength, not just overall stability, dictates DNA translocation dynamics.
Biased random walk models provide a framework for understanding sequence-dependent nanopore translocation.
This work offers insights into optimizing nanopore-based DNA analysis.