Interaction of gold nanoparticles with common human blood proteins

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 365-379

  De Paoli Lacerda, Silvia H ^a   Park, Jung Jin ^b   Meuse, Curt ^c   Pristinski, Denis ^c   Becker, Matthew L ^d   Karim, Alamgir ^d   Douglas, Jack F ^c  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d The University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding affinity; Biocompatibility; Conformational change; Fluorescence quenching; Gold nanoparticles; Nanotoxicology; Protein adsorption; Protein nanoparticle interaction

Indexed keywords

BINDING AFFINITIES; BINDING AFFINITY; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLE INTERACTION; NANOTOXICOLOGY; PROTEIN ADSORPTION;

ADSORPTION; ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; BINDING ENERGY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BLOOD; DICHROISM; FLUORESCENCE; GOLD; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; QUENCHING;

PROTEINS;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; PLASMA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTEIN BINDING; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PROTEINS; CATTLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GOLD; HUMANS; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTEIN BINDING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 75749123084     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9011187     Document Type: Article

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