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Attaching certain protein fragments that are found in the nuclear pore complex onto a solid-state nanopore mimics important aspects of the selective transport of molecules and proteins that occurs in real cells.

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Figure 1: Real NPC structure and the minimalist NPC-like device.

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  1. Tijana Jovanovic-Talisman is in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA,

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  2. Anton Zilman is in the Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada.,

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Jovanovic-Talisman, T., Zilman, A. Building a basic nanomachine. Nature Nanotech 6, 397–398 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2011.108

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