Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 405, Issue 28, Pages 9049-9059Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-013-7082-z
Keywords
Interface/surface analysis; Polymers; Mass spectrometry/ICP-MS; Amino acids/peptides; Biomaterials
Funding
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education [NN 209 756740]
- European Social Fund within the RFSD 2 project
- European Regional Development Fund in the framework of the Polish Innovation Economy Operational Program [POIG.02.01.00-12-023/08]
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Peptide surfaces were obtained by the covalent immobilisation of fluorescently labelled pentapeptides carboxyfluorescein-glycine-arginine-methionine-leucine-glycine, either directly or through a poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) linker on modified silicon wafers. Each step during the preparation of the peptide surfaces was confirmed by several surface characterisation techniques. Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy were used to determine the surface composition, the wafers philicity was measured by contact angle and atomic force microscopy was used to investigate the surface morphology. Exposure of the peptide surfaces to trypsin resulted in the release of a fluorescently labelled peptide product, which allowed the kinetics of the enzymatic reaction to be followed with the aid of fluorescence spectroscopy. The electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry analysis of the post-digestion solution confirmed that the pentapeptides attached to the solid support undergo specific trypsin hydrolysis at the C-terminus of the arginine residues. Detailed surface analyses before and after the enzyme action was performed using ToF-SIMS. Because of the limited accessibility of the short peptide directly attached to the surface, a quantitative yield of enzymatic hydrolysis was observed only in case when the peptide was bound through the PEG linker. The insertion of the PEG linker increased the number of immobilised peptides and the rate of enzymatic digestion which consequently improved the quality of the enzyme assays. The described approach may be used for different peptide sequences designed for other proteases.
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