Lipid‐Bilayer‐Spanning DNA Nanopores with a Bifunctional Porphyrin Anchor

Jonathan R. Burns(University College London), Kerstin Göpfrich(University of Cambridge), James W. Wood(University of Southampton), Vivek V. Thacker(University of Cambridge), Eugen Stulz(University of Southampton), Ulrich F. Keyser(University of Cambridge), Stefan Howorka(University College London)
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
September 6, 2013
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Abstract

Holding tight: An artificial membrane nanopore assembled from DNA oligonucleotides carries porphyrin tags (red), which anchor the nanostructure into the lipid bilayer. The porphyrin moieties also act as fluorescent dyes to aid the microscopic visualization of the DNA nanopore.


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