Abstract
Protein adsorption on nanoparticle surfaces plays a critical role in biological systems, and bovine serum albumin (BSA) is a useful model protein to study due to its high abundance and similar properties as its human variant. Herein, a quantitative understanding of the interaction between titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticle (22 nm average diameter) and BSA was carried out to explore the effect of pH on surface coverage and adsorbed protein structure. Experiments were conducted under different pH conditions (pH 7.4, 4.5, and 2.0) that simulate the pH of blood, lung, and stomach fluids, respectively. Attenuated total reflectance–Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy was used for in situ adsorption characterization and protein secondary structure analysis. In addition, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was used to provide quantitative determination of the surface coverage. These results show that BSA adsorption on TiO2 highly depends on pH as well as the presence of salts. Furthermore, it is als...
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