期刊
POLYMERS
卷 15, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym15102407
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linear polymer brushes; hydrophobic; polar; protein; interaction; ligands; surface; adsorption; potential of mean force
Protein adsorption dynamics were investigated using a coarse-grained model, revealing that polymer grafting density is the most crucial factor affecting adsorption efficiency. The size and hydrophobicity of the protein also play a role. Ligands and attractive tethering surfaces were found to influence primary, secondary, and ternary adsorption. Adsorption percentage, rate, protein shape, and potential of mean force were recorded to compare different scenarios.
Protein adsorption by polymerized surfaces is an interdisciplinary topic that has been approached in many ways, leading to a plethora of theoretical, numerical and experimental insight. There is a wide variety of models trying to accurately capture the essence of adsorption and its effect on the conformations of proteins and polymers. However, atomistic simulations are case-specific and computationally demanding. Here, we explore universal aspects of the dynamics of protein adsorption through a coarse-grained (CG) model, that allows us to explore the effects of various design parameters. To this end, we adopt the hydrophobic-polar (HP) model for proteins, place them uniformly at the upper bound of a CG polymer brush whose multibead-spring chains are tethered to a solid implicit wall. We find that the most crucial factor affecting the adsorption efficiency appears to be the polymer grafting density, while the size of the protein and its hydrophobicity ratio come also into play. We discuss the roles of ligands and attractive tethering surfaces to the primary adsorption as well as secondary and ternary adsorption in the presence of attractive (towards the hydrophilic part of the protein) beads along varying spots of the backbone of the polymer chains. The percentage and rate of adsorption, density profiles and the shapes of the proteins, alongside with the respective potential of mean force are recorded to compare the various scenarios during protein adsorption.
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