Abstract
Herbaspirillum seropedicae GlnB (GlnB-Hs) is a signal transduction protein involved in the control of nitrogen, carbon and energetic metabolism. The adsorption of GlnB-Hs deposited by spin coating on hydrophilic and hydrophobic silicon forms a thin layer that was characterized using atomic force microscopy (AFM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Fourier transform infrared attenuated total reflectance spectroscopy (FTIR-ATR). AFM allowed the identification of globular, face-up donut like array of protein on hydrophilic silicon substrate, favoring deprotonated residues to contact the silicon oxide surface. Over hydrophobic silicon, GlnB-Hs adopts a side-on conformation forming a filament network, avoiding the contact of protonated residues with silicon surface. XPS allowed us to determine the protonated and non-protonated states of nitrogen 1s (N 1s). The FTIR-ATR measurements provided information about protein secondary structure and its conservation, after surface adsorption.
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