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Colloquium: Prof. Yongki Choi

Prof. Yongki Choi
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University

Friday Dec 5, 2014, 4:00–5:00pm, 211 Witmer Hall. Refreshments at 3:30pm.

Single Molecule Bioelectronics

Nanoscale electronic devices like field-effect transistors have long promised to provide sensitive, label-free detection of biomolecules. In particular, single-walled carbon nanotubes have the requisite sensitivity to detect single molecule events, and have sufficient bandwidth to directly monitor single molecule dynamics in real time. Our recent work has demonstrated this premise by monitoring the dynamic, single-molecule processivity of three different enzymes: lysozyme, protein Kinase A, and DNA polymerase I. With all three enzymes, single molecules were electronically monitored for 10 or more minutes, allowing us to directly observe rare transitions to chemically inactive and hyperactive protein conformations. The high bandwidth of the nanotube transistors further allow every individual chemical event to be clearly resolved, providing excellent statistics from tens of thousands of turnovers by a single enzyme. Besides establishing values for processivity and turnover rates, the measurements reveal variability, dynamic disorder, and the existence of intermediate states. Initial success with the three enzymes indicates the generality and attractiveness of the nanotube devices as a new tool to complement existing single molecule techniques. Furthermore, our focused research on transduction mechanisms provides the design rules necessary to further generalize this architecture and apply it to other proteins.

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Witmer Hall Room 213
101 Cornell St Stop 7129
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7129
P 701.777.2911
physics@UND.edu
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