Nonlinear Optical Probe of Biopolymer Adsorption on Colloidal Particle Surface: Poly-l-lysine on Polystyrene Sulfate Microspheres
- 14 September 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Langmuir
- Vol. 20 (21), 9202-9209
- https://doi.org/10.1021/la048863j
Abstract
A nonlinear optical techniquesecond harmonic generation (SHG)has been applied to characterize the adsorption of poly-l-lysine on micrometer size polystyrene particles, whose surface is covered with negatively charged sulfonate groups, in aqueous solutions. Adsorption behavior of the biopolymer with two chain lengths (14 and 75 amino acid units; PL14 and PL75) has been examined. Centrifugation experiments were also performed to support the adsorption measurements made using SHG. The adsorption free energies of the two polymers PL75 and PL14 are determined as −16.57 and −14.40 kcal/mol, respectively. The small difference in the adsorption free energies of the two chain lengths, however, leads to dramatic difference in the concentration needed for saturated surface coverage: nearly 50 times higher concentration is needed for the smaller polymer. Under acidic colloidal conditions, polylysine is found to adsorb in a relatively flat conformation on the surface. The surface area that each polylysine molecule occupies is nearly 1 order of magnitude larger than the size of the molecule in its extended form. The low adsorption density is likely a result from Coulombic repulsion between the positive charges on the amino acid units of PL. The measurements demonstrate the utility of SHG as an efficient and sensitive experimental approach for measuring adsorption characteristics of bio/macromolecules on colloidal particles and define surface and colloidal conditions for achieving maximum surface coverage of a widely used biopolymer.Keywords
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