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Adsorption behavior of hyaluronidase onto silver nanoparticles and PMMA bone substitute

S. CAVALU1,* , S. CÎNTĂ PÎNZARU2, N. PEICAb3, G. DAMIAN1, W. KIEFER3

Affiliation

  1. University of Oradea, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, P-ta 1 Decembrie 10, Oradea, Romania
  2. Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics, Kogalniceanu 1,RO-400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  3. Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany

Abstract

Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and ATR-FTIR spectroscopy was applied in this work, in order to get information about the adsorption behavior of the title macromolecule with respect to different surfaces. In this case, the silver substrate can be considered as artificial substrate and the investigations regarding the mechanisms of adsorption can be useful in order to elucidate the active site properties of this enzyme. Our purpose is to study the adsorption mechanism of hyaluronidase onto silver nanoparticles and PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate) substrates as well as qualitative and quantitative aspects regarding perturbations of protein secondary structure (α-helix, β-sheet and unordered structures) upon adsorption, using deconvolution techniques..

Keywords

SERS, Raman, FTIR, Hyaluronidase adsorption, Conformational change.

Submitted at: Nov. 15, 2006
Accepted at: March 15, 2007

Citation

S. CAVALU, S. CÎNTĂ PÎNZARU, N. PEICAb, G. DAMIAN, W. KIEFER, Adsorption behavior of hyaluronidase onto silver nanoparticles and PMMA bone substitute, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 9, Iss. 3, pp. 686-689 (2007)