Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages 1005-1010Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la503865b
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- Department of Energy [DE-FG02-11ER46811, DE/SC0006520]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0006520] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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The physical and chemical properties of solid substrates or surfaces critically influence the stability and activity of immobilized proteins such as enzymes. Reports of increased stability and activity of enzymes near/on surfaces as compared with those in solution abound; however, a mechanistic understanding is wanting. Simulations and experiments are used here to provide details toward such a mechanistic understanding. Experiments demonstrate increased activity of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) inside moderate hydrophilic mesopourous silica (SBA-15) pores but drastically decreased activity inside very hydrophilic NH(2)SBA-15 surfaces as compared with that in solution. Also, the temperature stability of ADH was increased over that in solution when immobilized in a cavity with a mildly hydrophilic surface. Simulations confirm these experimental findings. Simulations calculated in the framework of a hydrophobicpolar (HP) lattice model show increased thermal stability of a model 64-mer peptide on positive and zero curvature surfaces over that in solution. Peptides immobilized inside negative curvature cavities (concave) with hydrophilic surfaces exhibit increased stability only inside pores that are only 34 nm larger than the hydrodynamic radius of the peptide. Peptides are destabilized, however, when the surface hydrophilic character inside very small cavities/pores becomes large.
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