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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 135, Issue 21, Pages 7799-7802Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja400701c
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- NSF [CBET-0968038, CBET-1247945]
- NIH [CA143663]
- Welch Foundation [F-1319, F-1696]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [0968038] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1247945] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The adsorption of even a single serum protein molecule on a gold nanosphere used in biomedical imaging may increase the size too much for renal clearance. In this work, we designed charged similar to 5 nm Au, nanospheres coated with binary mixed-charge ligand monolayers that do not change in size upon incubation in pure fetal bovine serum (FBS). This lack of protein adsorption was unexpected in view of the fact that the Au surface was moderately charged. The mixed-charge monolayers were composed of anionic citrate ligands modified by place exchange with naturally occurring amino acids: either cationic lysine or zwitterionic cysteine ligands. The zwitterionic tips of either the lysine or cysteine ligands interact weakly with the proteins and furthermore increase the distance between the buried charges closer to the Au surface and the interacting sites on the protein surface. The nm nanospheres were assembled into similar to 20 nm diameter nanoclusters with strong near-IR absorbance (of interest in biomedical imaging and therapy) with a biodegradable polymer, PLA(1k)-b-PEG(10k)-b-PLA(1k). Upon biodegradation of the polymer in acidic solution, the nanoclusters dissociated into primary similar to 5 nm Au nanospheres, which also did not adsorb any detectable serum protein in undiluted FBS.
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