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Selected Publications

Selected Journal Papers

  1. Wanunu, M. Chakrabarti, B. Mathé, J. Nelson, D. R. and A. Meller (2008) Orientation-dependent interactions of DNA with an a-Hemolysin Channel, Phys Rev. E, 77, 031904 (download).
  2. Soni G. and A. Meller (2007) Progress Towards ultrafast DNA sequencing using solid state nanopores. Clin. Chem. 3, 1996-01
  3. Kim, M-J., B. McNally, K. Murata and A. Meller (2007) Characteristics of solid-state nanometer pores fabricated using transmission electron microscope (TEM) Nanotechnology, 18, 205302.
  4. Dudko, O., J. Mathé, A. Szabo, A. Meller, and G. Hummer (2007) Extracting kinetics from single-molecule force spectroscopy: Nanopore unzipping of DNA hairpins, Biophys. J., 92, 4188-4195 (download)
  5. Wanunu, M. and A. Meller (2007) Chemically Modified Solid-State
    Nanopores. Nano Letters, 7, 1580-85 (download), (also read Research Highlight, Nature, 447, 14 (2007)
  6. Hornblower, B., A. Coombs, R.D. Whitaker, A. Kolomeisky, Picone, S.J., A. Meller and M. Akeson (2007) Single-Molecule Analysis of DNA-Protein Complexes Using Nanopores. Nature Methods, 4, 315-317 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth1021 (download)
  7. Edel, J., J. Eid and A. Meller (2007) Accurate single molecule FRET efficiency determination for surface immobilized DNA using maximum likelihood calculated lifetimes. J. Phys. Chem B., 111, DOI: 10.1021/jp066530k (download)
  8. Kim, M-J., M. Wanunu, C.D. Bell and A. Meller (2006) Rapid Fabrication of Uniform Size Nanopores and Nanopore Arrays for Parallel DNA Analysis. Adv. Mater. 18, 3149-3153. (download)
  9. Jan Bonthuis, D., J. Zhang, B. Hornblower, J. Mathé, B.I. Shklovskii and A. Meller (2006) Self-Energy-Limited Ion Transport in Subnanometer Channels. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 128104. (download)
  10. Mathé, J., A. Arinstein, Rabin Y. and A. Meller (2006) Equilibrium and irreversible unzipping of DNA in a nanopore, Europhys. Lett. 73 (1), 128-134 (download)
  11. Viasnoff, V., A. Meller and H. Isambert (2006) DNA nanomechanical switches under folding kinetics control. Nano Letters, 6, 101-104 (download)
  12. Sabanayagam, C.R., J.S. Eid and A. Meller (2005) Long time scale blinking kinetics of cyanine fluorophores conjugated to DNA and its effect on Förster resonance energy transfer. J. Chem. Phys. 123, 224708. (download)
  13. Mathé, J., A. Aksimentiev, D.R. Nelson, K. Schulten and A. Meller (2005) Orientation discrimination of single-stranded DNA inside the alpha-hemolysin membrane channel. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102, 12377-12382. (download)
  14. Sabanayagam, C.R., J.S. Eid and A. Meller (2005) Using fluorescence resonance energy transfer to measure distances along individual DNA molecules: Corrections due to nonideal transfer. J. Chem. Phys. 122, 061103. (download)
  15. Mathé, J., H. Visram, V. Viasnoff, Y. Rabin and A. Meller (2004) Nanopore unzipping of individual DNA hairpin molecules. Biophys. J. 87, 3205-3212. (download)
  16. Sabanayagam, C.R., J.S. Eid and A. Meller (2004) High-throughput scanning confocal microscope for single molecule analysis. Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 1216-1218 (download).
  17. Bates, M., M. Burns and A. Meller (2003) Dynamics of single DNA molecules actively controlled inside a membrane channel. Biophys. J. 84, 2366-2372 (download).
  18. Meller, A., L. Nivon and D. Branton (2001) Voltage-Driven DNA Translocations through a Nanopore. Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3435-3438 (download).
  19. Meller, A. and D. Branton (2002) Single molecule measurements of DNA transport through a nanopore. Electrophoresis 23, 2583-2591.
  20. Meller, A., L. Nivon, E. Brandin, J. Golovchenko and D. Branton (2000) Rapid nanopore discrimination between single polynucleotide molecules. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97, 1079-1084 (download).

Selected Reviews and Book chapters

  1. Wanunu, M. and A. Meller (2008) Single Molecule Analysis of Nucleic Acids and DNA-protein Interactions using Nanopores, Laboratory Manual on Single Molecules, Eds. P. Selvin and T. Ha, Cold Spring Harbor Press.
  2. Lee, J.W. and A. Meller (2006). Rapid DNA Sequencing by Direct Nanoscale Reading of Nucleotide Bases on Individual DNA chains. In: Perspectives in Bioanalysis. K. Mitchelson (Ed.), Elsevier. (download)
  3. Meller, A. (2003) Dynamics of polynucleotide transport through nanometre-scale pores. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 15, R581-R607. (download)
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