作者: Shih-Ting Wang , Yiyang Lin , Nevena Todorova , Yingqi Xu , Manuel Mazo
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.CHEMMATER.6B04144
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摘要: A comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms interaction between proteins or peptides and nanomaterials is crucial for development nanomaterial-based diagnostics therapeutics. In this work, we systematically explored interactions citrate-capped gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP), a 37-amino acid peptide hormone co-secreted with insulin from pancreatic islet. We utilized diffusion-ordered spectroscopy, isothermal titration calorimetry, localized surface plasmon resonance gel electrophoresis, atomic force microscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to elucidate underlying mechanism IAPP–AuNP interactions. Because presence metal-binding sequence motif in hydrophilic domain, IAPP strongly interacts Au both monomeric fibrillar states. Circular dichroism showed that AuNPs triggered conformational transit...