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Aerolysin nanopores decode digital information stored in tailored macromolecular analytes

Cao, Chan  
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Krapp, Lucien Fabrice  
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Al Ouahabi, Abdelaziz
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December 9, 2020
Science Advances

Digital data storage is a growing need for our society and finding alternative solutions than those based on silicon or magnetic tapes is a challenge in the era of “big data.” The recent development of polymers that can store information at the molecular level has opened up new opportunities for ultrahigh density data storage, long-term archival, anticounterfeiting systems, and molecular cryptography. However, synthetic informational polymers are so far only deciphered by tandem mass spectrometry. In comparison, nanopore technology can be faster, cheaper, nondestructive and provide detection at the single-molecule level; moreover, it can be massively parallelized and miniaturized in portable devices. Here, we demonstrate the ability of engineered aerolysin nanopores to accurately read, with single-bit resolution, the digital information encoded in tailored informational polymers alone and in mixed samples, without compromising information density. These findings open promising possibilities to develop writing-reading technologies to process digital data using a biological-inspired platform.

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DOI
10.1126/sciadv.abc2661
Author(s)
Cao, Chan  
Krapp, Lucien Fabrice  
Al Ouahabi, Abdelaziz
König, Niklas F.
Cirauqui, Nuria
Radenovic, Aleksandra  
Lutz, Jean-François
Dal Peraro, Matteo  
Date Issued

2020-12-09

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Science Advances
Volume

6

Issue

50

Article Number

eabc2661

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This is an Open Access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

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