Protein conformational changes revealed by optical spectroscopic reflectometry in porous silicon multilayers

作者:De Tommasi Edoardo*; Rea Ilaria; Rendina Ivo; Rotiroti Lucia; De Stefano Luca
来源:Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter , 2009, 21(3): 035115.
DOI:10.1088/0953-8984/21/3/035115

摘要

The protein-ligand molecular interactions imply strong geometrical and structural rearrangements of the biological complex which are normally detected by high sensitivity optical techniques such as time-resolved fluorescence microscopy. In this work, we have measured, by optical spectroscopic reflectometry in the visible-near-infrared region, the interaction between a sugar binding protein (SBP), covalently bound on the surface of a porous silicon (PSi) microcavity, and glucose, at different concentrations and temperatures. Variable-angle spectroscopic ellipsometric (VASE) characterization of protein-functionalized PSi layers confirms that the protein-ligand system has an overall volume smaller than the SBP alone.

  • 出版日期2009-1-21