Abstract:
:Single-molecule long-read DNA sequencing with biological nanopores is fast and high-throughput but suffers reduced accuracy in homonucleotide stretches. We now combine the CsgG nanopore with the 35-residue N-terminal region of its extracellular interaction partner CsgF to produce a dual-constriction pore with improved signal and base-calling accuracy for homopolymer regions. The electron cryo-microscopy structure of CsgG in complex with full-length CsgF shows that the 33 N-terminal residues of CsgF bind inside the β-barrel of the pore, forming a defined second constriction. In complexes of CsgG bound to a 35-residue CsgF constriction peptide, the second constriction is separated from the primary constriction by ~25 Å. We find that both constrictions contribute to electrical signal modulation during single-stranded DNA translocation. DNA sequencing using a prototype CsgG-CsgF protein pore with two constrictions improved single-read accuracy by 25 to 70% in homopolymers up to 9 nucleotides long.
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Nat Biotechnoljournal_title
Nature biotechnologyauthors
Van der Verren SE,Van Gerven N,Jonckheere W,Hambley R,Singh P,Kilgour J,Jordan M,Wallace EJ,Jayasinghe L,Remaut Hdoi
10.1038/s41587-020-0570-8subject
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2020-12-01 00:00:00pages
1415-1420issue
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1087-0156issn
1546-1696pii
10.1038/s41587-020-0570-8journal_volume
38pub_type
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