Authors: Lidia Armelao Gregorio Bottaro Laura Bovo Chiara Maccato Eugenio Tondello Francesca Anselmi Sara Bersani Paolo Caliceti
Publish Date: 2011/06/09
Volume: 60, Issue: 3, Pages: 352-358
Abstract
The conjugation between probe biomolecules and inorganic nanoparticles has been studied Three different and biologically relevant proteins bovine serum albumin BSA lysozyme LSZ and Ribonuclease A RNAseA have been selected as model systems because of their difference in size and isoelectric point Zinc oxide nanoparticles synthesized via sol–gel have been thoroughly characterized by Xray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Scanning Electron Microscopy and Xray Diffraction and subsequently used as platforms for immobilization of the biomolecules The interaction of the three proteins with the ZnO surface was performed in phosphate buffer solutions at pH 72 in order to mimic physiological fluids and was investigated through fluorescence experiments The obtained results indicate that conjugation of BSA LZS and RNAseA on the oxide nanoparticles was mostly dictated by the overall charge of the different proteins Electrostatic bonds dominate the formation of the protein/ZnO conjugates whereas the size of the proteins seems to play a negligible role under the adopted experimental conditionsThe research was supported by Italian MIUR through the FIRB RBPR05JH2P “Rete ItalNanoNet” Project MSE Industria 2015 ALADIN Progetto Strategico HELIOS Università di Padova and PRINCOFIN 2008 Mr Antonio Ravazzolo ISTM CNR University of Padova is gratefully acknowledged for technical assistance
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