Affiliation:
1. Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
Abstract
Spontaneous sorption of proteins on the nanoparticles’ surface leads to the fact that nanoparticles in biological media are always enveloped by a layer of proteins—the protein corona. Corona proteins affect the properties of nanoparticles and their behavior in a biological environment. In this regard, knowledge about the composition of the corona is a necessary element for the development of nanomedicine. Because proteins have different sorption efficacy, isolating particles with a full corona and characterizing the full corona is challenging. In this study, we propose a photo-activated cross-linker for full protein corona fixation. We believe that the application of our proposed approach will make it possible to capture and visualize the full corona on nanoparticles coated with a lipid shell.
Funder
Russian Science Foundation
Subject
General Materials Science,General Chemical Engineering