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Masuda T, Watanabe Y, Kozuka Y, Saegusa Y, Takai M. Bactericidal Ability of Well-Controlled Cationic Polymer Brush Surfaces and the Interaction Analysis by Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:16522-16531. [PMID: 37930305 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
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In this study, cationic poly(2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl) trimethylammonium chloride) (PMTAC) brush surfaces were prepared by surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP), and their properties were systematically investigated to discuss the factors affecting their bactericidal properties and interactions with proteins. Model equations for the analysis of electrophoretic behaviors were considered for accurate parameter estimation to indicate the charge density at the interface. The zeta potential dependency of the PMTAC brushes was successfully analyzed using Smolchowski's equation and the Gouy-Chapman model, which describes the diffusive electric double layer. The analysis of the quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) indicated that the electrostatic interaction promoted protein adsorption, with a large quantity of a negatively charged protein, bovine serum albumin (BSA), being adsorbed. The bactericidal efficiency of the high-graft-density polymer brush (0.45 chains nm-2) was higher than that of the low-graft-density polymer brush (0.06 chains nm-2). To investigate the mechanism of this phenomenon, we applied the dissipation change (ΔD) of QCM-D analysis. The BSA was likewise adsorbed when the brush structure was changed; however, the negative ΔD indicated that the BSA-adsorbed, high-graft-density PMTAC brush became a rigid state. In the bacteria culture media, the behaviors were the same as BSA adsorption, and the high-graft-density polymer brush was also estimated to be more rigid than the low-graft-density polymer brush. Moreover, for S. aureus adhesion after incubating in TSB, a small slope of ΔD/ΔF plots considered initial adsorption of bacteria on the high-graft-density polymer brush strongly interacted compared to that of the low-graft-density polymer brush. The scattered value of the slope of ΔD/ΔF on the high-graft-density polymer brush was considered to be due to the dead bacteria between the bacteria and the polymer brush interface. These investigations for a well-defined cationic polymer brush will contribute to the design of antibacterial surfaces.
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- Tsukuru Masuda
- Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8565, Japan
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- Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8565, Japan
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- Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8565, Japan
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- Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8565, Japan
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- Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8565, Japan
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Bratek-Skicki A, Cristaudo V, Savocco J, Nootens S, Morsomme P, Delcorte A, Dupont-Gillain C. Mixed Polymer Brushes for the Selective Capture and Release of Proteins. Biomacromolecules 2019; 20:778-789. [PMID: 30605604 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.8b01353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Selective protein adsorption is a key challenge for the development of biosensors, separation technologies, and smart materials for medicine and biotechnologies. In this work, a strategy was developed for selective protein adsorption, based on the use of mixed polymer brushes composed of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), a protein-repellent polymer, and poly(acrylic acid) (PAA), a weak polyacid whose conformation changes according to the pH and ionic strength of the surrounding medium. A mixture of lysozyme (Lyz), human serum albumin (HSA), and human fibrinogen (Fb) was used to demonstrate the success of this strategy. Polymer brush formation and protein adsorption were monitored by quartz crystal microbalance, whereas protein identification after adsorption from the mixture was performed by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) with principal component analysis and gel electrophoresis with silver staining. For the ToF-SIMS measurements, adsorption was first performed from single-protein solutions in order to identify characteristic peaks of each protein. Next, adsorption was performed from the mixture of the three proteins. Proteins were also desorbed from the brushes and analyzed by gel electrophoresis with silver staining for further identification. Selective adsorption of Lyz from a mixture of Lyz/HSA/Fb was successfully achieved at pH 9.0 and ionic strength of 10-3 M, while Lyz and HSA, but not Fb, were adsorbed at ionic strength 10-2 M and pH 9.0. The results demonstrate that by controlling the ionic strength, selective adsorption can be achieved from protein mixtures on PEO/PAA mixed brushes, predominantly because of the resulting control on electrostatic interactions. In well-chosen conditions, the selectively adsorbed proteins can also be fully recovered from the brushes by a simple ionic strength stimulus. The developed systems will find applications as responsive biointerfaces in the fields of separation technologies, biosensing, drug delivery, and nanomedicine.
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- Anna Bratek-Skicki
- Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences , Université catholique de Louvain , Place Louis Pasteur (L4.01.10) , 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium.,Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry , Polish Academy of Sciences , Niezapominajek 8 , PL30239 Krakow , Poland
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- Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences , Université catholique de Louvain , Place Louis Pasteur (L4.01.10) , 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium
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- Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology , Université catholique de Louvain , Croix du Sud 4-5 (L7.07.14) , 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium
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- Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology , Université catholique de Louvain , Croix du Sud 4-5 (L7.07.14) , 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium
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- Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology , Université catholique de Louvain , Croix du Sud 4-5 (L7.07.14) , 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium
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- Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences , Université catholique de Louvain , Place Louis Pasteur (L4.01.10) , 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium
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- Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences , Université catholique de Louvain , Place Louis Pasteur (L4.01.10) , 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium
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Wang H, Pemberton JE. Effect of Solvent Quality on Laminar Slip Flow Penetration of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Films with an Exploration of the Mass Transport Mechanism. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:7468-7478. [PMID: 28737039 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b01598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The effect of solvent quality on the slip flow penetration of polymer films was evaluated by monitoring small-molecule mass transport under varying laminar flow rates using Förster resonance energy transfer in combination with total internal reflectance fluorescence microscopy (FRET-TIRFM). For thin films of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (pNIPAM), solvents with solvent quality ranging from good to poor were studied. The solvents used were composed of varying mole ratios of methanol and water in order to take advantage of the unique cononsolvency phenomenon of pNIPAM such that differences in the physicochemical properties of these solvents were insignificant for fluorescence detection. FRET quenching of a donor fluorophore covalently tethered on the substrate surface at the bottom of the pNIPAM film by a solution-confined acceptor was monitored as a function of time. Quenching curves were fit to a combined Taylor-Aris-Fickian mass transport model for the acceptor, rhodamine B (RhB) or 2-nitrobenzylaclohol (2-NBA), allowing apparent diffusion coefficients to be determined and used to assess slip flow penetration into the polymer film. An increase in the apparent diffusion coefficient of tracer molecules was observed with increasing laminar flow rate for all solvents, indicating that mass transport processes in the pNIPAM film are significantly perturbed by laminar slip flow penetration. In going from poor solvents, 31 mol % MeOH/H2O and 20 mol % MeOH/H2O, to the theta solvent, 13 mol % MeOH/H2O, and finally to a good solvent, 100% methanol, the slip length increases from 25 to 37 to 70 to 128 nm, with the corresponding percentage of the film penetrated by slip flow increasing from 19 to 27 to 42 to 57%, respectively. The apparent diffusion coefficients of the two acceptors, RhB and 2-NBA, which differ substantially in size and charge, in pNIPAM films under identical conditions were found to be of the same order of magnitude, albeit with a small difference (∼10%) due to inherently different diffusive properties. Therefore, the dominant mechanism for the mass transport of small molecules in densely grafted thin pNIPAM brush films is suggested to be linear Fickian diffusion under the chosen laminar flow conditions with linear flow velocities ranging from 192 to 2952 μm/s. High-quality fits to a Taylor-Aris-Fickian diffusion model of the experimental breakthrough curves obtained with both acceptor molecules further substantiate the proper use of this model and the validity of the FRET-TIRFM method.
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- Huan Wang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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Wang H, Cheng L, Sáez AE, Pemberton JE. Flow Field Penetration in Thin Nanoporous Polymer Films under Laminar Flow by Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Coupled with Total Internal Reflectance Fluorescence Microscopy. Anal Chem 2015; 87:11746-54. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- Huan Wang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and ‡Department of
Chemical and Environmental
Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and ‡Department of
Chemical and Environmental
Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and ‡Department of
Chemical and Environmental
Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and ‡Department of
Chemical and Environmental
Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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Krishnamoorthy M, Hakobyan S, Ramstedt M, Gautrot JE. Surface-initiated polymer brushes in the biomedical field: applications in membrane science, biosensing, cell culture, regenerative medicine and antibacterial coatings. Chem Rev 2014; 114:10976-1026. [PMID: 25353708 DOI: 10.1021/cr500252u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 393] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Mahentha Krishnamoorthy
- Institute of Bioengineering and ‡School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London , Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
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Chen F, Wan D, Chang Z, Pu H, Jin M. Highly efficient separation, enrichment, and recovery of peptides by silica-supported polyethylenimine. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2014; 30:12250-12257. [PMID: 25262957 DOI: 10.1021/la502093k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Highly efficient and charge-selective adsorption and desorption of peptides at trace level by a solid-phase adsorbent is described. The adsorbent of SiO2@PEI is synthesized by covalent immobilization of branched polyethylenimines (PEI) exclusively on the outer surface of the porous silica particles (∼300 μm). For aqueous peptides (Mw = 600-3000 Da), SiO2@PEI can capture the negatively charged ones and leave the positively charged ones intact, and by adjusting pH of the system peptides with different isoelectric points (pIs) can be well separated. Targeted peptide at low abundance (at least as low as 0.1 mol % with respect to the highest one) can be well separated. The association constants of K > 10(12) M(-1) at pH > pI and K < 10(4) M(-1) at pH < pI are found; that is, selectivity > 10(8) is generally available. Thus, a peptide even at sub-femtomolar level can be extracted and eluted for analysis, and efficient recovery (79-92%) of the peptides is found. The extraction is mainly promoted by multisite electrostatic interaction, and the hydrophilic and cationic properties of PEI at low pH play a unique role in desorption efficiency and selectivity. The unbiased nature of this method renders the adsorbent applicable to the efficient separation of a broad spectrum of peptides, including those with similar pIs.
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- Feng Chen
- Institute of Functional Polymers, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University , 4800 Cao-an Road, Shanghai 201804, PR China
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Scott C, Mitrovic B, Eastwood S, Kinsel G. Stimuli Response of Cationic Polymer Brush Prepared by ATRP: Application in Peptide Fractionation. POLYMER 2014; 55:3551-3556. [PMID: 25253913 DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2014.06.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Random cationic copolymer brushes composed of 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA) and N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) were synthesized using the atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) method. The effects of varying the monomer feed ratios (30:70 and 70:30 DMAEMA:NIPAAm) and polymerization times on the film height, morphology and stimuli response to pH of the brush were evaluated. While the polymerization time was found to have little influence on the properties of the brushes, the monomer feed ratios had a great impact. The 70 % DMAEMA polymer brush had similar height as the 30 % DMAEMA brush after 45 min; however, it had a greater response to pH and morphological change compared to the 30 % DMAEMA. The 70 % DMAEMA brush was used to demonstrate an efficient approach to alleviate the ion suppression effect in MALDI analysis of complex mixtures by effectively fractionating a binary mixture of peptides prior to MALDI-MS analysis.
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- Colleen Scott
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-4409, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-4409, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-4409, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-4409, USA
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Novel nanomaterials used for sample preparation for protein analysis. Anal Bioanal Chem 2013; 406:35-47. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-013-7392-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2013] [Revised: 09/09/2013] [Accepted: 09/20/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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