PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cardozo, Nicolas
AU  - Zhang, Karen
AU  - Doroschak, Katie
AU  - Nguyen, Aerilynn
AU  - Siddiqui, Zoheb
AU  - Strauss, Karin
AU  - Ceze, Luis
AU  - Nivala, Jeff
TI  - Multiplexed direct detection of barcoded protein reporters on a nanopore array
AID  - 10.1101/837542
DP  - 2019 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 837542
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/11/11/837542.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/11/11/837542.full
AB  - Genetically encoded reporter proteins are a cornerstone of molecular biology. While they are widely used to measure many biological activities, the current number of uniquely addressable reporters that can be used together for one-pot multiplexed tracking is small due to overlapping detection channels such as fluorescence. To address this, we built an expanded library of orthogonally-barcoded Nanopore-addressable protein Tags Engineered as Reporters (NanoporeTERs), which can be read and demuxed by nanopore sensors at the single-molecule level. By adapting a commercially available nanopore sensor array platform typically used for real-time DNA and RNA sequencing (Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ MinION), we show direct detection of NanoporeTER expression levels from unprocessed bacterial culture with no specialized sample preparation. These results lay the foundations for a new class of reporter proteins to enable multiplexed, real-time tracking of gene expression with nascent nanopore sensor technology.