Multifunctional biomemory device
AssigneeIndustry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University
InventorsJeong Woo Choi, Taek Lee, Jun Hong Min
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a multifunctional biomemory device in which a protein having a redox potential substituted with a metal ion is directly immobilized on a substrate. The present disclosure provides an operating method in which the redox state of the protein is controlled by applying three different potentials. The present disclosure provides a biomemory device in which the metal ion of a metalloprotein is substituted to allow for artificial control of the redox potential. The present disclosure provides a new-concept biomemory device as an information storage device based on the principle of electron transfer of a naturally occurring biomolecule.
Claims1
A method for fabricating a biomemory device which is a write once read many (WORM) type device or a write read erase read (WRER) type device, comprising:
- (a) substituting an original metal ion of a metalloprotein having a redox potential with metal ion which is different from the original metal ion, and is magnesium, vanadium, manganese, iron, nickel, zinc, molybdenum, cobalt, gallium, bismuth, gold, aluminum, platinum, chromium, silver, antimony, thallium, cadmium, mercury, lead, calcium, or selenium,
- wherein the metalloprotein is azurin, hemoglobin, myoglobin, hemerythrin, cytochrome, iron-sulfur protein, rubredoxin, plastocyanin, ferritin, ceruloplasmin, carbonic anhydrase, vitamin B12-dependent enzyme, nitrogenase, superoxide dismutase, chlorophyll-containing protein, calmodulin, glucose 6-phosphatase, hexokinase, DNA polymerase, vanabin, arginase, catalase, hydrogenase, iron-responsive element-binding protein, aconitase, urease, cytochrome oxidase, laccase, alcohol dehydrogenase, carboxypeptidase, aminopeptidase, β-amyloid, nitrate reductase, glutathione peroxidase, metallothionein, or phosphatase, and is a recombinant protein into which a cysteine residue is introduced;
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- (b) immobilizing the metalloprotein on a substrate.
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