Abstract
Although the use of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) has substantial benefits, their entrance into the environment, food chain, and human body and their toxicity have come under serious scrutiny. Multiple noncovalent attractive forces between AgNPs and bio-macromolecules are responsible for immediate corona formation upon exposure to biological tissue. Here, the influence of AgNPs with neuro-enzyme Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) was investigated. AgNPs to enzyme ratio had an effect on the enzyme and features of the treated samples. It was also observed that time increments had a positive effect on the size of AgNPs and caused an increase in their initial size. In other words, smaller AgNPs resulted in size increments after interaction with enzymes, while the larger ones showed size decrements. The nano-crystalline AgNPs were identified in x-ray powder diffraction analyses before and after treatment with AChE. The (220) crystalline plane is related to the internal crystallinity of cubic Ag. The results show that the interaction between AChE and AgNPs could lead not only to a decrease in AChE activity, but also to a reduction in the crystallinity and stability of AgNPs. The circular dichroism demonstrates that the secondary structure of AChE also declined after 30 min of incubation with AgNPs at 37 °C.
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