Journal
COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES
Volume 113, Issue -, Pages 276-284Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2013.09.021
Keywords
Serum albumin protein; Copper nanoparticles; Fluorescence quenching; Resonance light scattering spectroscopy; Circular dichroism spectroscopy
Funding
- UGC-SAP (Special Assistance Program), India
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Copper nanoparticles (NPs) of average size of similar to 7.5 nm were synthesized by chemical reduction method. Fluorescence spectroscopy in synchronous and polarization modes were used to examine the nature of interaction between Cu NPs and bovine serum albumin (BSA) at different temperatures. Fluorescence quenching results suggest that Cu NPs interact with BSA molecule through static mechanism, as inferred from the quenching of BSA fluorophore. The calculated thermodynamic parameters (Delta G degrees, Delta H degrees, and Delta S degrees) hint that the binding process occurs spontaneously by involving hydrophobic forces. Synchronous fluorescence spectra reveal that the interaction of Cu NPs with BSA mostly changes the microenvironment of tryptophan and not of tyrosine residues. The formation of BSA-Cu NPs ground state complex was also confirmed from the resonant light scattering and fluorescence polarization spectra. Circular dichroism and Raman spectra indicate that alpha-helicity of the BSA decreases due to the interaction with Cu NPs. It was also found that Cu NPs are located in the close proximity of BSA molecule, which transfer energy efficiently from the excited state of BSA fluorophore to the Cu NPs. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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