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SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 602, Issue 1, Pages 307-315Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2007.10.018
Keywords
protein adsorption; air-water interface; adsorption isotherms; reversibility; molecular weight dependence; surface area-to-volume ratio
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Adsorption isotherms of eight globular proteins at the air-water interface were analyzed using a modified adsorption model. The experimental adsorption data of eight globular proteins at the air-water interface obeyed the model. The F,at predicted from the model agreed quite well with the experimentally determined values. The relative affinities of globular proteins decreased with increasing molecular weight of proteins and followed an M-2/3-relationship. Further analysis showed that this phenomena was related to the solvent accessible molecular surface area-to-volume ratio (A(s)/V) of globular proteins. The results indicated that adsorption of globular proteins follows a Traube-rule-like behavior with surface area-to-volume ratio as the scaling parameter. Theoretical analysis in combination with experimental data indicated that for every doubling of molecular weight of globular proteins, the free energy change for adsorption becomes unfavourable by about 272 cal/mol. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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