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Hess KA, Spear NJ, Vogelsang SA, Macdonald JE, Buchanan LE. Determining the impact of gold nanoparticles on amyloid aggregation with 2D IR spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:091101. [PMID: 36889961 PMCID: PMC9981241 DOI: 10.1063/5.0136376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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As nanomaterials become more prevalent in both industry and medicine, it is crucial to fully understand their health risks. One area of concern is the interaction of nanoparticles with proteins, including their ability to modulate the uncontrolled aggregation of amyloid proteins associated with diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and type II diabetes, and potentially extend the lifetime of cytotoxic soluble oligomers. This work demonstrates that two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy and 13C18O isotope labeling can be used to follow the aggregation of human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) in the presence of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with single-residue structural resolution. 60 nm AuNPs were found to inhibit hIAPP, tripling the aggregation time. Furthermore, calculating the actual transition dipole strength of the backbone amide I' mode reveals that hIAPP forms a more ordered aggregate structure in the presence of AuNPs. Ultimately, such studies can provide insight into how mechanisms of amyloid aggregation are altered in the presence of nanoparticles, furthering our understanding of protein-nanoparticle interactions.
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- Kayla A. Hess
- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 1234 Stevenson Center Lane, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 1234 Stevenson Center Lane, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 1234 Stevenson Center Lane, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 1234 Stevenson Center Lane, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 1234 Stevenson Center Lane, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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Basu A, Vaskevich A, Chuntonov L. Glutathione Self-Assembles into a Shell of Hydrogen-Bonded Intermolecular Aggregates on "Naked" Silver Nanoparticles. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:895-906. [PMID: 33440116 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c10089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A detailed understanding of the molecular structure in nanoparticle ligand capping layers is crucial for their efficient incorporation into modern scientific and technological applications. Peptide ligands render the nanoparticles as biocompatible materials. Glutathione, a γ-ECG tripeptide, self-assembles into aggregates on the surface of ligand-free silver nanoparticles through intermolecular hydrogen bonding and forms a few nanometer-thick shells. Two-dimensional nonlinear infrared (2DIR) spectroscopy suggests that aggregates adopt a conformation resembling the β-sheet secondary structure. The shell thickness was evaluated with localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The amount of glutathione on the surface was obtained with spectrophotometry of a thiol-reactive probe. Our results suggest that the shell consists of ∼15 stacked molecular layers. These values correspond to the inter-sheet distances, which are significantly shorter than those in amyloid fibrils with relatively bulky side chains, but are comparable to glycine-rich silk fibrils, where the side chains are compact. The tight packing of the glutathione layers can be facilitated by hydrogen-bonded carboxylic acid dimers of glycine and the intermolecular salt bridges between the zwitterionic γ-glutamyl groups. The structure of the glutathione aggregates was studied by 2DIR spectroscopy of the amide-I vibrational modes using 13C isotope labeling of the cysteine carbonyl. Isotope dilution experiments revealed the coupling of modes forming vibrational excitons along the cysteine chain. The coupling along the γ-glutamyl exciton chain was estimated from these values. The obtained coupling strengths are slightly lower than those of native β-sheets, yet they appear large enough to point onto an ordered conformation of the peptides within the aggregate. Analysis of the excitons' anharmonicities and the strength of the transition dipole moments generally is in agreement with these observations.
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- Arghyadeep Basu
- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and Solid State Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department of Materials and Interfaces, and Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and Solid State Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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Ghosh A, Prasad AK, Chuntonov L. Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy Reveals Molecular Self-Assembly on the Surface of Silver Nanoparticles. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:2481-2486. [PMID: 30978284 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The conformation of molecules, peptides, and proteins, self-assembled into structured monolayers on the surface of metal nanoparticles (NPs), can strongly affect their properties and use in chemical or nanobiomedical applications. Elucidating molecular conformations on the NP surface is highly challenging, and the microscopic details mostly remain elusive. Using polarization-selective third-order two-dimensional ultrafast infrared spectroscopy, we revealed the highly ordered intermolecular structure of γ-tripeptide glutathione on the surface of silver NPs in aqueous solution. Glutathione is an antioxidant thiol abundant in living cells; it is extensively used in NP chemistry and related research. We identified conditions where the interaction of glutathione with the NP surface facilitates formation of a β-sheet-like structure enclosing the NPs. A spectroscopic signature associated with the assembly of β-sheets into an amyloid fibril-like structure was also observed. Remarkably, the interaction with the metal surface promotes formation of a fibril-like structure by a small peptide involving only two amino acids.
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- Anup Ghosh
- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and Solid State Institute , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa 3200003 , Israel
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and Solid State Institute , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa 3200003 , Israel
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and Solid State Institute , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa 3200003 , Israel
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Dereka B, Helbing J, Vauthey E. Transient Glass Formation around a Quadrupolar Photoexcited Dye in a Strongly H‐Bonding Liquid Observed by Transient 2D‐IR Spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201808324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Bogdan Dereka
- Department of physical chemistry University of Geneva 30, Quai Ernest Ansermet 1211 Geneva Switzerland
- Present address: Department of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics and James Franck Institute University of Chicago Chicago IL 60637 USA
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- Department of chemistry University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of physical chemistry University of Geneva 30, Quai Ernest Ansermet 1211 Geneva Switzerland
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Dereka B, Helbing J, Vauthey E. Transient Glass Formation around a Quadrupolar Photoexcited Dye in a Strongly H‐Bonding Liquid Observed by Transient 2D‐IR Spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:17014-17018. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201808324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Bogdan Dereka
- Department of physical chemistry University of Geneva 30, Quai Ernest Ansermet 1211 Geneva Switzerland
- Present address: Department of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics and James Franck Institute University of Chicago Chicago IL 60637 USA
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- Department of chemistry University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of physical chemistry University of Geneva 30, Quai Ernest Ansermet 1211 Geneva Switzerland
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Zhou M, Zeng C, Song Y, Padelford JW, Wang G, Sfeir MY, Higaki T, Jin R. On the Non‐Metallicity of 2.2 nm Au
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Nanoclusters. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:16257-16261. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201709095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Meng Zhou
- Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Georgia State University Atlanta GA 30302 USA
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton NY 11973 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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Zhou M, Zeng C, Song Y, Padelford JW, Wang G, Sfeir MY, Higaki T, Jin R. On the Non‐Metallicity of 2.2 nm Au
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Nanoclusters. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201709095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Meng Zhou
- Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Georgia State University Atlanta GA 30302 USA
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton NY 11973 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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Gandman A, Mackin R, Cohn B, Rubtsov IV, Chuntonov L. Two-Dimensional Fano Lineshapes in Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopy of Thin Molecular Layers on Plasmonic Arrays. J Phys Chem Lett 2017; 8:3341-3346. [PMID: 28677974 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Two-dimensional femtosecond infrared (2DIR) spectroscopy routinely provides insights into molecular structure and ultrafast dynamics in 1-100 μm thick bulk samples. Confinement of molecules to surfaces, gaps, crevices, and other topographic features, frequently encountered on the nanometer length scale, significantly alters their structure and dynamics, affecting physical and chemical properties. Amplification of 2DIR signals by the plasmon-enhanced fields around metal nanostructures can permit structural and dynamics measurements of the confined molecules. Fano resonances, induced by the interaction between laser pulses, plasmon, and vibrational modes significantly distort 2D lineshapes. For different detuning from plasmon resonance, the interference between multiple signal components leads to different line shape asymmetry, which we demonstrate on a set of linear absorption, transient absorption, and 2DIR spectra. An intuitive model used to describe experimental data points to the interference's origin. Our results will facilitate the application of surface-enhanced 2DIR spectroscopy for studies of molecular structure and dynamics in a nanoconfined environment.
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- Andrey Gandman
- Solid State Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa 32000, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Tulane University , New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, United States
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa 32000, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Tulane University , New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, United States
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- Solid State Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa 32000, Israel
- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa 32000, Israel
- Russel Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa 32000, Israel
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Kraack JP, Hamm P. Vibrational ladder-climbing in surface-enhanced, ultrafast infrared spectroscopy. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:16088-93. [PMID: 27265518 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp02589g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In a recent work (J. Phys. Chem. C 2016, 120, 3350-3359), we have introduced the concept of surface-enhanced, two-dimensional attenuated total reflectance (2D ATR IR) spectroscopy with modest enhancement factors (<50) using small plasmonic noble metal nanoparticles at solid-liquid interfaces. Here, we show that employment of almost continuous noble metal layers results in significantly stronger enhancement factors in 2D ATR IR signals (>450), which allows for multi-quantum IR excitation of adsorbed molecules, a process known as "vibrational ladder-climbing", even for weakly absorbing (ε < 200 M(-1) cm(-1)) nitrile IR labels. We show that it is possible to deposit up to four quanta of vibrational energy in the respective functional group. Based on these results, optical near-fields of plasmonic nanostructures may pave the way for future investigations involving ultrafast dynamics of highly excited vibrational states or surface-sensitive coherent control experiments of ground-state reactions at solid-liquid interfaces.
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- Jan Philip Kraack
- Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Zürich, Switzerland.
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van Wilderen LJGW, Bredenbeck J. Von ultraschnellen Strukturbestimmungen bis zum Steuern von Reaktionen: mehrdimensionale gemischte IR/nicht-IR-Schwingungsspektroskopie. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201503155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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van Wilderen LJGW, Bredenbeck J. From Ultrafast Structure Determination to Steering Reactions: Mixed IR/Non-IR Multidimensional Vibrational Spectroscopies. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:11624-40. [PMID: 26394274 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201503155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Ultrafast multidimensional infrared spectroscopy is a powerful method for resolving features of molecular structure and dynamics that are difficult or impossible to address with linear spectroscopy. Augmenting the IR pulse sequences by resonant or nonresonant UV, Vis, or NIR pulses considerably extends the range of application and creates techniques with possibilities far beyond a pure multidimensional IR experiment. These include surface-specific 2D-IR spectroscopy with sub-monolayer sensitivity, ultrafast structure determination in non-equilibrium systems, triggered exchange spectroscopy to correlate reactant and product bands, exploring the interplay of electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom, investigation of interactions between Raman- and IR-active modes, imaging with chemical contrast, sub-ensemble-selective photochemistry, and even steering a reaction by selective IR excitation. We give an overview of useful mixed IR/non-IR pulse sequences, discuss their differences, and illustrate their application potential.
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- Institute of Biophysics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
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Kraack JP, Lotti D, Hamm P. 2D attenuated total reflectance infrared spectroscopy reveals ultrafast vibrational dynamics of organic monolayers at metal-liquid interfaces. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:212413. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4916915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Jan Philip Kraack
- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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