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      Modeling the Time Evolution of the Nanoparticle-Protein Corona in a Body Fluid

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          Background

          Nanoparticles in contact with biological fluids interact with proteins and other biomolecules, thus forming a dynamic corona whose composition varies over time due to continuous protein association and dissociation events. Eventually equilibrium is reached, at which point the continued exchange will not affect the composition of the corona.

          Results

          We developed a simple and effective dynamic model of the nanoparticle protein corona in a body fluid, namely human plasma. The model predicts the time evolution and equilibrium composition of the corona based on affinities, stoichiometries and rate constants. An application to the interaction of human serum albumin, high density lipoprotein (HDL) and fibrinogen with 70 nm N-iso-propylacrylamide/N-tert-butylacrylamide copolymer nanoparticles is presented, including novel experimental data for HDL.

          Conclusions

          The simple model presented here can easily be modified to mimic the interaction of the nanoparticle protein corona with a novel biological fluid or compartment once new data will be available, thus opening novel applications in nanotoxicity and nanomedicine.

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            Interpretation of protein adsorption: surface-induced conformational changes.

            Protein adhesion plays a major role in determining the biocompatibility of materials. The first stage of implant integration is the adhesion of protein followed by cell attachment. Surface modification of implants (surface chemistry and topography) to induce and control protein and cell adhesion is currently of great interest. This communication presents data on protein adsorption (bovine serum albumin and fibrinogen) onto model hydrophobic (CH(3)) and hydrophilic (OH) surfaces, investigated using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) and grazing angle infrared spectroscopy. Our data suggest that albumin undergoes adsorption via a single step whereas fibrinogen adsorption is a more complex, multistage process. Albumin has a stronger affinity toward the CH(3) compared to OH terminated surface. In contrast, fibrinogen adheres more rapidly to both surfaces, having a slightly higher affinity toward the hydrophobic surface. Conformational assessment of the adsorbed proteins by grazing angle infrared spectroscopy (GA-FTIR) shows that after an initial 1 h incubation few further time-dependent changes are observed. Both proteins exhibited a less organized secondary structure upon adsorption onto a hydrophobic surface than onto a hydrophilic surface, with the effect observed greatest for albumin. This study demonstrates the ability of simple tailor-made monochemical surfaces to influence binding rates and conformation of bound proteins through protein-surface interactions. Current interest in biocompatible materials has focused on surface modifications to induce rapid healing, both of implants and for wound care products. This effect may also be of significance at the next stage of implant integration, as cell adhesion occurs through the surface protein layer.
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              Systems Biology Toolbox for MATLAB: a computational platform for research in systems biology.

              We present a Systems Biology Toolbox for the widely used general purpose mathematical software MATLAB. The toolbox offers systems biologists an open and extensible environment, in which to explore ideas, prototype and share new algorithms, and build applications for the analysis and simulation of biological and biochemical systems. Additionally it is well suited for educational purposes. The toolbox supports the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) by providing an interface for import and export of SBML models. In this way the toolbox connects nicely to other SBML-enabled modelling packages. Models are represented in an internal model format and can be described either by entering ordinary differential equations or, more intuitively, by entering biochemical reaction equations. The toolbox contains a large number of analysis methods, such as deterministic and stochastic simulation, parameter estimation, network identification, parameter sensitivity analysis and bifurcation analysis.
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                Role: Editor
                Journal
                PLoS One
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                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
                1932-6203
                2010
                3 June 2010
                : 5
                : 6
                : e10949
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Section of Biochemistry, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
                [2 ]Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Centre for Molecular Protein Science, Chemical Centre, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
                [3 ]Department of Laboratory Medicine, Section of Clinical Chemistry, Lund University, University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
                [4 ]Department of Biochemistry, Centre for Molecular Protein Science, Chemical Centre, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
                Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
                Author notes

                Conceived and designed the experiments: DD ML TC SL. Performed the experiments: DD ML SL. Analyzed the data: DD ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CO. Wrote the paper: DD ML TC SL.

                Article
                10-PONE-RA-16227R1
                10.1371/journal.pone.0010949
                2880601
                20532175
                ae00f288-d9f8-4cf3-ba13-41ecd9e8c4c0
                Dell'Orco et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
                History
                : 11 February 2010
                : 11 May 2010
                Page count
                Pages: 8
                Categories
                Research Article
                Biochemistry/Experimental Biophysical Methods
                Biochemistry/Macromolecular Assemblies and Machines
                Chemistry/Physical, Inorganic, and Analytical Chemistry
                Computational Biology/Systems Biology

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