Electrostatic and Dispersion Interactions during Protein Adsorption on Topographic Nanostructures

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• 作者：Patrick Elter ; Regina Lange ; Ulrich Beck
• 刊名：Langmuir
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：July 19, 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：27
• 期：14
• 页码：8767-8775
• 全文大小：981K
• 年卷期：v.27,no.14(July 19, 2011)
• ISSN：1520-5827

文摘

Recently, biomaterials research has focused on developing functional implant surfaces with well-defined topographic nanostructures in order to influence protein adsorption and cellular behavior. To enhance our understanding of how proteins interact with such surfaces, we analyze the adsorption of lysozyme on an oppositely charged nanostructure using a computer simulation. We present an algorithm that combines simulated Brownian dynamics with numerical field calculation methods to predict the preferred adsorption sites for arbitrarily shaped substrates. Either proteins can be immobilized at their initial adsorption sites or surface diffusion can be considered. Interactions are analyzed on the basis of Derjaguin鈥揕andau鈥揤erway鈥揙verbeek (DLVO) theory, including electrostatic and London dispersion forces, and numerical solutions are derived using the Poisson鈥揃oltzmann and Hamaker equations. Our calculations show that for a grooved nanostructure (i.e., groove and plateau width 8 nm, height 4 nm), proteins first contact the substrate primarily near convex edges because of better geometric accessibility and increased electric field strengths. Subsequently, molecules migrate by surface diffusion into grooves and concave corners, where short-range dispersion interactions are maximized. In equilibrium, this mechanism leads to an increased surface protein concentration in the grooves, demonstrating that the total amount of protein per surface area can be increased if substrates have concave nanostructures.