Single molecule observation of hard-soft-acid-base (HSAB) interaction in engineered Mycobacterium smegmatis porin A (MspA) nanopores.

Chemical Science
Sha WangShuo Huang

Abstract

In the formation of coordination interactions between metal ions and amino acids in natural metalloproteins, the bound metal ion is critical either for the stabilization of the protein structure or as an enzyme co-factor. Though extremely small in size, metal ions, when bound to the restricted environment of an engineered biological nanopore, result in detectable perturbations during single channel recordings. All reported work of this kind was performed with engineered α-hemolysin nanopores and the observed events appear to be extremely small in amplitude (∼1-3 pA). We speculate that the cylindrical pore restriction of α-hemolysin may not be optimal for probing extremely small analytes. Mycobacterium smegmatis porin A (MspA), a conical shaped nanopore, was engineered to interact with Ca2+, Mn2+, Co2+, Ni2+, Zn2+, Pb2+ and Cd2+ and a systematically larger event amplitude (up to 10 pA) was observed. The measured rate constant suggests that the coordination of a single ion with an amino acid follows hard-soft-acid-base theory, which has never been systematically validated in the case of a single molecule. By adjusting the measurement pH from 6.8 to 8.0, the duration of a single ion binding event could be modified with a ∼46-fold ...Continue Reading

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