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NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 34, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/34/345101
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- NSF [CBET-1232724]
- Archimedes Foundation of Estonia
- EU
- ETF [8561]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1232724] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We report on the dose-dependent inhibition of firefly luciferase activity induced by exposure of the enzyme to 20 nm citrate-coated silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). The inhibition mechanism was examined by characterizing the physicochemical properties and biophysical interactions of the enzyme and the AgNPs. Consistently, binding of the enzyme induced an increase in zeta potential from -22 to 6 mV for the AgNPs, triggered a red-shift of 44 nm in the absorbance peak of the AgNPs, and rendered a 'protein corona' of 20 nm in thickness on the nanoparticle surfaces. However, the secondary structures of the enzyme were only marginally affected upon formation of the protein corona, as verified by circular dichroism spectroscopy measurement and multiscale discrete molecular dynamics simulations. Rather, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry measurement revealed a significant ion release from the AgNPs. The released silver ions could readily react with the cysteine residues and N-groups of the enzyme to alter the physicochemical environment of their neighboring catalytic site and subsequently impair the enzymatic activity.
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