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Nowotarski MS, Potnuru LR, Straub JS, Chaklashiya R, Shimasaki T, Pahari B, Coffaro H, Jain S, Han S. Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Enhanced Multiple-Quantum Spin Counting of Molecular Assemblies in Vitrified Solutions. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:7084-7094. [PMID: 38953521 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/04/2024]
Abstract
Crystallization pathways are essential to various industrial, geological, and biological processes. In nonclassical nucleation theory, prenucleation clusters (PNCs) form, aggregate, and crystallize to produce higher order assemblies. Microscopy and X-ray techniques have limited utility for PNC analysis due to the small size (0.5-3 nm) and time stability constraints. We present a new approach for analyzing PNC formation based on 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spin counting of vitrified molecular assemblies. The use of glassing agents ensures that vitrification generates amorphous aqueous samples and offers conditions for performing dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP)-amplified NMR spectroscopy. We demonstrate that molecular adenosine triphosphate along with crystalline, amorphous, and clustered calcium phosphate materials formed via a nonclassical growth pathway can be differentiated from one another by the number of dipolar coupled 31P spins. We also present an innovative approach for examining spin counting data, demonstrating that a knowledge-based fitting of integer multiples of cosine wave functions, instead of the traditional Fourier transform, provides a more physically meaningful retrieval of the existing frequencies. This is the first report of multiquantum spin counting of assemblies formed in solution as captured under vitrified DNP conditions, which can be useful for future analysis of PNCs and other aqueous molecular clusters.
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- Mesopotamia S Nowotarski
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- School of Physical and Applied Sciences, Goa University, Taleigao, Goa 403206, India
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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Kozak F, Brandis D, Pötzl C, Epasto LM, Reichinger D, Obrist D, Peterlik H, Polyansky A, Zagrovic B, Daus F, Geyer A, Becker CF, Kurzbach D. An Atomistic View on the Mechanism of Diatom Peptide-Guided Biomimetic Silica Formation. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2024:e2401239. [PMID: 38874418 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202401239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2024] [Revised: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 06/15/2024]
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Deciphering nature's remarkable way of encoding functions in its biominerals holds the potential to enable the rational development of nature-inspired materials with tailored properties. However, the complex processes that convert solution-state precursors into solid biomaterials remain largely unknown. In this study, an unconventional approach is presented to characterize these precursors for the diatom-derived peptides R5 and synthetic Silaffin-1A1 (synSil-1A1). These molecules can form defined supramolecular assemblies in solution, which act as templates for solid silica structures. Using a tailored structural biology toolbox, the structure-function relationships of these self-assemblies are unveiled. NMR-derived constraints are employed to enable a recently developed fractal-cluster formalism and then reveal the architecture of the peptide assemblies in atomistic detail. Finally, by monitoring the self-assembly activities during silica formation at simultaneous high temporal and residue resolution using real-time spectroscopy, the mechanism is elucidated underlying template-driven silica formation. Thus, it is demonstrated how to exercise morphology control over bioinorganic solids by manipulating the template architectures. It is found that the morphology of the templates is translated into the shape of bioinorganic particles via a mechanism that includes silica nucleation on the solution-state complexes' surfaces followed by complete surface coating and particle precipitation.
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- Fanny Kozak
- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Department of Structural and Computational Biology, Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna, Campus Vienna Biocenter 5, Vienna, A-1030, Austria
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- Department of Structural and Computational Biology, Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna, Campus Vienna Biocenter 5, Vienna, A-1030, Austria
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35032, Marburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35032, Marburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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Turhan E, Pötzl C, Keil W, Negroni M, Kouřil K, Meier B, Romero JA, Kazimierczuk K, Goldberga I, Azaïs T, Kurzbach D. Biphasic NMR of Hyperpolarized Suspensions-Real-Time Monitoring of Solute-to-Solid Conversion to Watch Materials Grow. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2023; 127:19591-19598. [PMID: 37817917 PMCID: PMC10561236 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c04198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2023] [Revised: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/12/2023]
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a key method for the determination of molecular structures. Due to its intrinsically high (i.e., atomistic) resolution and versatility, it has found numerous applications for investigating gases, liquids, and solids. However, liquid-state NMR has found little application for suspensions of solid particles as the resonances of such systems are excessively broadened, typically beyond the detection threshold. Herein, we propose a route to overcoming this critical limitation by enhancing the signals of particle suspensions by >3.000-fold using dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (d-DNP) coupled with rapid solid precipitation. For the proof-of-concept series of experiments, we employed calcium phosphate (CaP) as a model system. By d-DNP, we boosted the signals of phosphate 31P spins before rapid CaP precipitation inside the NMR spectrometer, leading to the inclusion of the hyperpolarized phosphate into CaP-nucleated solid particles within milliseconds. With our approach, within only 1 s of acquisition time, we obtained spectra of biphasic systems, i.e., micrometer-sized dilute solid CaP particles coexisting with their solution-state precursors. Thus, this work is a step toward real-time characterization of the solid-solution equilibrium. Finally, integrating the hyperpolarized data with molecular dynamics simulations and electron microscopy enabled us to shed light on the CaP formation mechanism in atomistic detail.
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- Ertan Turhan
- Institute
of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna 1090, Austria
- University
of Vienna, Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), Währinger Str. 42, Vienna 1090, Austria
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- Institute
of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna 1090, Austria
- University
of Vienna, Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), Währinger Str. 42, Vienna 1090, Austria
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- Institute
of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna 1090, Austria
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- Institute
of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna 1090, Austria
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- Institute
of Biological Interfaces 4, Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology, Egenstein-Leopoldshafen 76344, Germany
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- Institute
of Biological Interfaces 4, Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology, Egenstein-Leopoldshafen 76344, Germany
- Institute
of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany
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- Centre
of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, ul. Banacha 2c, Warsaw 02-097, Poland
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- Sorbonne
Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière
Condensée de Paris (LCMCP), 4, place Jussieu, Paris F-75005, France
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- Sorbonne
Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière
Condensée de Paris (LCMCP), 4, place Jussieu, Paris F-75005, France
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- Institute
of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna 1090, Austria
- University
of Vienna, Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), Währinger Str. 42, Vienna 1090, Austria
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Water-Mediated attraction between Like-charged species involved in calcium phosphate nucleation. J Mol Liq 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.121585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/12/2023]
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Strobl J, Kozak F, Kamalov M, Reichinger D, Kurzbach D, Becker CF. Understanding Self-Assembly of Silica-Precipitating Peptides to Control Silica Particle Morphology. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2207586. [PMID: 36509953 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202207586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2022] [Revised: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
The most advanced materials are those found in nature. These evolutionary optimized substances provide highest efficiencies, e.g., in harvesting solar energy or providing extreme stability, and are intrinsically biocompatible. However, the mimicry of biological materials is limited to a few successful applications since there is still a lack of the tools to recreate natural materials. Herein, such means are provided based on a peptide library derived from the silaffin protein R5 that enables rational biomimetic materials design. It is now evident that biomaterials do not form via mechanisms observed in vitro. Instead, the material's function and morphology are predetermined by precursors that self-assemble in solution, often from a combination of protein and salts. These assemblies act as templates for biomaterials. The RRIL peptides used here are a small part of the silica-precipitation machinery in diatoms. By connecting RRIL motifs via varying central bi- or trifunctional residues, a library of stereoisomers is generated, which allows characterization of different template structures in the presence of phosphate ions by combining residue-resolved real-time NMR spectroscopy and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Understanding these templates in atomistic detail, the morphology of silica particles is controlled via manipulation of the template precursors.
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- Johannes Strobl
- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 38, Vienna, 109, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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Ramnarain V, Georges T, Ortiz Peña N, Ihiawakrim D, Longuinho M, Bulou H, Gervais C, Sanchez C, Azaïs T, Ersen O. Monitoring of CaCO 3 Nanoscale Structuration through Real-Time Liquid Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy and Hyperpolarized NMR. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:15236-15251. [PMID: 35971919 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c05731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is one of the most significant biominerals in nature. Living organisms are able to control its biomineralization by means of an organic matrix to tailor a myriad of hybrid functional materials. The soluble organic components are often proteins rich in acidic amino-acids such as l-aspartic acid. While several studies have demonstrated the influence of amino acids on the crystallization of calcium carbonate, nanoscopic insight of their impact on CaCO3 mineralization, in particular at the early stages, is still lacking. Herein, we implement liquid phase-transmission electron microscopy (LP-TEM) in order to visualize in real-time and at the nanoscale the prenucleation stages of CaCO3 formation. We observe that l-aspartic acid favors the formation of individual and aggregated prenucleation clusters which are found stable for several minutes before the transformation into amorphous nanoparticles. Combination with hyperpolarized solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (DNP NMR) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations allow shedding light on the underlying mechanism at the prenucleation stage. The promoting nature of l-aspartic acid with respect to prenucleation clusters is explained by specific interactions with both Ca2+ and carbonates and the stabilization of the Ca2+-CO32-/HCO3- ion pairs favoring the formation and stabilization of the CaCO3 transient precursors. The study of prenucleation stages of mineral formation by the combination of in situ LP-TEM, advanced analytical techniques (including hyperpolarized solid-state NMR), and numerical modeling allows the real-time monitoring of prenucleation species formation and evolution and the comprehension of their relative stability.
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- Vinavadini Ramnarain
- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, 23 Rue du Loess, 67034 Strasbourg, Cedex 2, France.,ICFRC, 8 Allée Gaspard Monge, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie de Matière Condensée de Paris, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, 75025 Paris, Cedex 13, France
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- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, 23 Rue du Loess, 67034 Strasbourg, Cedex 2, France.,ICFRC, 8 Allée Gaspard Monge, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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- CBPF, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud, 150 Urca I, CEP 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.,UFRJ, Av Pedro Calmon, 550 Edificio da Reitoria, Iha de do Fundao, CEP 21941-901 Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, 23 Rue du Loess, 67034 Strasbourg, Cedex 2, France.,ICFRC, 8 Allée Gaspard Monge, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie de Matière Condensée de Paris, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie de Matière Condensée de Paris, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France.,USIAS, Université de Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie de Matière Condensée de Paris, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
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- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, 23 Rue du Loess, 67034 Strasbourg, Cedex 2, France.,ICFRC, 8 Allée Gaspard Monge, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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