Fluidic switching in nanochannels for the control of Inchworm: a synthetic biomolecular motor with a power stroke.
Niman, Cassandra LU ; Zuckermann, Martin J ; Balaz, Martina LU ; Tegenfeldt, Jonas LU
; Curmi, Paul M G
; Forde, Nancy R
and Linke, Heiner
LU
(2014)
In Nanoscale
6(24).
p.15008-15019
- Abstract
- Synthetic molecular motors typically take nanometer-scale steps through rectification of thermal motion. Here we propose Inchworm, a DNA-based motor that employs a pronounced power stroke to take micrometer-scale steps on a time scale of seconds, and we design, fabricate, and analyze the nanofluidic device needed to operate the motor. Inchworm is a kbp-long, double-stranded DNA confined inside a nanochannel in a stretched configuration. Motor stepping is achieved through externally controlled changes in salt concentration (changing the DNA's extension), coordinated with ligand-gated binding of the DNA's ends to the functionalized nanochannel surface. Brownian dynamics simulations predict that Inchworm's stall force is determined by its... (More)
- Synthetic molecular motors typically take nanometer-scale steps through rectification of thermal motion. Here we propose Inchworm, a DNA-based motor that employs a pronounced power stroke to take micrometer-scale steps on a time scale of seconds, and we design, fabricate, and analyze the nanofluidic device needed to operate the motor. Inchworm is a kbp-long, double-stranded DNA confined inside a nanochannel in a stretched configuration. Motor stepping is achieved through externally controlled changes in salt concentration (changing the DNA's extension), coordinated with ligand-gated binding of the DNA's ends to the functionalized nanochannel surface. Brownian dynamics simulations predict that Inchworm's stall force is determined by its entropic spring constant and is ∼0.1 pN. Operation of the motor requires periodic cycling of four different buffers surrounding the DNA inside a nanochannel, while keeping constant the hydrodynamic load force on the DNA. We present a two-layer fluidic device incorporating 100 nm-radius nanochannels that are connected through a few-nm-wide slit to a microfluidic system used for in situ buffer exchanges, either diffusionally (zero flow) or with controlled hydrodynamic flow. Combining experiment with finite-element modeling, we demonstrate the device's key performance features and experimentally establish achievable Inchworm stepping times of the order of seconds or faster. (Less)
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- Niman, Cassandra
LU
; Zuckermann, Martin J
; Balaz, Martina
LU
; Tegenfeldt, Jonas
LU
; Curmi, Paul M G
; Forde, Nancy R
and Linke, Heiner
LU
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- 2014
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- Nanoscale
- volume
- 6
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- 24
- pages
- 15008 - 15019
- publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- external identifiers
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- pmid:25367216
- wos:000345458200053
- scopus:84911876729
- pmid:25367216
- ISSN
- 2040-3372
- DOI
- 10.1039/c4nr04701j
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- English
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