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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
Volume 489, Issue -, Pages 163-172Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2015.10.033
Keywords
BSA adsorption; Conformation of BSA; Adsorption on silica surface; QCM-D; Contact angle; Zeta potential of silica surface
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- National Science Centre Poland (NCN) [OPUS 2012/07/B/ST5//00767]
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Adsorption of bovine serum albumin (BSA) on the surface of Si02 was investigated mainly using quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) with energy dissipation mode. BSA adsorption kinetics and coverage were determined as a function of pH of the solution with the ionic strength of 1 x 10(-2) M. The maximum coverage was obtained in the pH range 4.5-5.4, near the protein isoelectric point. For pH larger than 5.4 and smaller than 4.5 a monotonic decrease of the adsorbed mass was observed. The images obtained using atomic force microscopy (AFM) method revealed various BSA structures depending on the pH at which they were adsorbed. The identified conformations were assigned to the compact triangular form with an effective length L-ef = 8.3 nm and the elongated one with length L-ef = 26.7 nm. The dependence between the structure of the protein layers formed on the surface and BSA conformations in solution was additionally followed by contact angle (CA) measurements. It turned out that CA values are very sensitive to the structure of BSA monolayers formed on the silica surface. Comparison of QCM and AFM data with those obtained by other indirect methods (CA) additionally enabled interpretation of the dependence of BSA adsorption on the pH of the solution. The obtained results confirmed the significant role of the highly anisotropic surface charge distribution of BSA molecules on the process of their adsorption. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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