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BIOINTERPHASES
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1116/6.0000438
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- Helmholtz Association, program Science and Technology of Nanosystems (STN)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics
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A key hurdle toward effective application of nanoparticles (NPs) in biomedicine is still the incomplete understanding of the biomolecular adsorption layer, the so-called protein corona, which inevitably forms around NPs when they are immersed in a biofluid. NP sizing techniques via the analysis of Brownian motions offer a powerful way to measure the thickness of the protein corona in situ. Here, the fundamentals of three techniques, dynamic light scattering, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, and nanoparticle tracking analysis are briefly summarized. Then, experimental procedures for the determination of binding curves are presented in a tutorial fashion. Nanoparticle sizing experiments are illustrated with a selection of recent results on the interactions of transferrin with hydrophilic and hydrophobic polystyrene nanoparticles, and key insights gained from this work are discussed.
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