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Protein Adsorption on Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayers: Influence of Chain Length and Terminal Group

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LANGMUIR
卷 39, 期 47, 页码 16712-16720

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01250

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Mixed self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are commonly used as tunable substrates for biomedical and biosensing applications. This study investigates the impact of SAM structure and mixing ratio on the adsorption behavior of bovine serum albumin (BSA). The results show that the mixing ratio alone is a relatively good predictor of adsorption, regardless of the chain lengths of the thiols used in the mixture. There is no significant evidence that varying chain lengths of mixed SAMs have a large influence on nanoscopic adsorption behavior.
Mixed self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are often used as highly tunable substrates for biomedical and biosensing applications. It is well documented, however, that mixed SAMs can be highly disordered at the molecular level and do not pack as closely or homogeneously as single-component SAMs, particularly when the chain lengths and head groups of the SAM thiol components are significantly different. In this study, we explore the impact of SAM structure and mixing ratio (-OH and -CH3 termini) on the weak physisorption behavior of bovine serum albumin (BSA), which adsorbs more readily to hydrophobic, methyl-terminated SAMs. Our results suggest that once the mixture includes 50% or more of the methyl terminus, the mixing ratio alone is a relatively good predictor of adsorption, regardless of the relative chain lengths of the thiols used in the mixture. This trend persists at any mixing ratio for SAMs where methyl- and hydroxyl-terminated groups are the same length or where the hydroxyl-terminated thiol is longer. The only variance observed is at low mixing ratios (<50% methyl-terminated) for a mixed SAM where the methyl-terminated component has a longer chain length. Relative protein adsorption increases on these mixtures, perhaps due to the disordered exposure of the excess alkane backbone. Taken together, however, we do not find significant evidence that varying chain lengths for mixed SAMs prepared on polycrystalline substrates and analyzed in air have an outsized influence on nanoscopic adsorption behavior, despite molecular-level disorder in the SAM itself.

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