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  • Mechanism of fibrinogen /mi...
    Żeliszewska, Paulina; Sadowska, Marta; Morga, Maria; Adamczyk, Zbigniew

    Colloids and surfaces, B, Biointerfaces, 12/2019, Letnik: 184
    Journal Article

    Display omitted •The coverage and molecule orientation in the fibrinogen monolayers were determined.•The hybrid random sequential adsorption model was used to theoretical calculations.•The results open a spectrum of possibilities for conducting efficient immunoassays. Deposition kinetics of fibrinogen/polystyrene particle complexes on mica and the silicon/silica substrates was studied using the direct optical and atomic force microscopy. Initially, basic physicochemical characteristics of fibrinogen and the microparticles were acquired using the dynamic light scattering and the electrophoretic mobility methods, whereas the zeta potential of the substrates was determined using the streaming potential measurements. Subsequently an efficient method for the preparation of fibrinogen/polymer microparticle complexes characterized by controlled coverage and molecule orientation was developed. It was demonstrated that for a lower suspension concentration the complexes are stable for pH range 3–9 and for a large concentration for pH below 4.5 and above 5.5. This enabled to carry out thorough pH cycling experiments where their isoelectric point was determined to appear at pH 5. Kinetic measurements showed that the deposition rate of the complexes vanished at pH above 5, whereas the kinetics of the positively charged amidine particles, used as control, remained at maximum for pH up to 9. These results were theoretically interpreted using the hybrid random sequential adsorption model. It was confirmed that the deposition kinetics of the complexes can be adequately analyzed in terms of the mean-field approach, analogously to the ordinary colloid particle behavior. This is in contrast to the fibrinogen molecule behavior, which efficiently adsorb on negatively charged substrates for the entire range pHs up to 9.7. These results have practical significance for conducting efficient immunoassays governed by the specific antigen/antibody interactions.