Abstract

We carried out solid-state nanopore experiments on designed single-stranded DNA molecule complex with double-stranded segments. We have designed short oligomers of single-stranded DNA of about 130 bases long each with 12-bases long sticky ends that are complimentary to those on one end of other oligomers to form ds-DNA regions by Watson-Crick base-pairing in these regions. Such a design facilitates the formation of a chain of single strands DNA with ds-DNA regions interspersed. In order to slow down the translocation speed of these complexes through solid-state nanopores that could enable one to identify the ds-DNA region markers in the blockage current signal during translocation, we have attached these ss-DNA complexes with a polystyrene bead on one end. We present the results of our preliminary studies that show that the signature of these ds-DNA region markers could be identified.

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