PMID- 25562583 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150928 LR - 20150120 IS - 1520-5827 (Electronic) IS - 0743-7463 (Linking) VI - 31 IP - 2 DP - 2015 Jan 20 TI - Enhanced protein adsorption and facilitated refolding of like-charged protein with highly charged silica nanoparticles fabricated by sequential double modifications. PG - 655-8 LID - 10.1021/la5040454 [doi] AB - Silica nanoparticles (SNPs) were sequentially modified with poly(ethylenimine) (PEI) and 2-diethylaminoethyl chloride (DEAE) to prepare a series of positively charged SNPs-PEI and SNPs-PEI-DEAE. The sequential double-modification strategy produced a charge density as high as 1740 mumol/g (4524 mumol/mL), which offered a very high adsorption capacity for bovine serum albumin (314 mg/g). Most importantly, the highly charged SNPs-PEI and SNPs-PEI-DEAE could efficiently facilitate the refolding of like-charged protein at extremely low utilization. For instance, in the refolding of 1 mg/mL lysozyme, the refolding yield reached 75% with only 3.3 muL/mL SNPs-PEI-DEAE. The bead consumption was reduced by nearly 96% as compared to that of the charged microspheres used previously to reach a similar yield. The results proved that the polyelectrolyte-modified SNPs were promising for applications in facilitating like-charged protein refolding, and the research opened up a new way for biotechnology applications of highly charged nanoparticles. FAU - Liu, Hu AU - Liu H AD - Department of Biochemical Engineering and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University , Tianjin 300072, China. FAU - Dong, Xiaoyan AU - Dong X FAU - Sun, Yan AU - Sun Y LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150107 PL - United States TA - Langmuir JT - Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids JID - 9882736 RN - 0 (Polymers) RN - 0 (Proteins) RN - 7631-86-9 (Silicon Dioxide) RN - 9002-98-6 (Polyethyleneimine) SB - IM MH - Adsorption MH - Animals MH - Cattle MH - Nanoparticles/*chemistry MH - Polyethyleneimine/chemistry MH - Polymers/chemistry MH - Protein Refolding MH - Proteins/*chemistry MH - Silicon Dioxide/*chemistry EDAT- 2015/01/07 06:00 MHDA- 2015/09/29 06:00 CRDT- 2015/01/07 06:00 PHST- 2015/01/07 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/01/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/09/29 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1021/la5040454 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Langmuir. 2015 Jan 20;31(2):655-8. doi: 10.1021/la5040454. Epub 2015 Jan 7.