Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400 085, India.
Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 PSI Villigen, Switzerland.
Soft Matter. 2021 Jul 28;17(29):6972-6984. doi: 10.1039/d1sm00264c.
The interaction of a bovine serum albumin (BSA) protein with the mixture of anionic sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and cationic dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB) has been investigated by small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and dynamic light scattering (DLS). Both SDS and DTAB as individuals interact electrostatically as well as hydrophobically with BSA and form connected protein-decorated micelle like complexes in the aqueous solution, in which the well-defined surfactant micelles are organized along the randomly distributed unfolded polypeptide chain of the protein. The protein-surfactant interaction has been tuned by adding different molar mixtures of SDS and DTAB in BSA aqueous solution. It is found that a lower molar fraction of either surfactant in the protein-mixed surfactant complexes results in the formation of a connected protein-decorated micelle structure similar to those of pure surfactants. As the molar fraction of one of the surfactants in the mixture approaches the equimolar fraction, the structure formed by the protein-mixed surfactant is very different from the connected protein-decorated micelle like structure. Different microstructures of BSA-mixed surfactant complexes are formed, mostly governed by the structure of mixed surfactants arising from the strong electrostatic interaction of oppositely charged components. In this case, unfolded proteins wrap the structures of mixed surfactants around their surface. Along with the connected protein-decorated micelle like structure, rod-like and bilayer vesicles of protein-surfactant complexes are formed at different molar fractions of mixed surfactants.
牛血清白蛋白(BSA)与阴离子十二烷基硫酸钠(SDS)和阳离子十二烷基三甲基溴化铵(DTAB)混合物的相互作用已通过小角中子散射(SANS)和动态光散射(DLS)进行了研究。SDS 和 DTAB 各自都与 BSA 发生静电相互作用和疏水相互作用,并在水溶液中形成连接的蛋白修饰胶束样复合物,其中定义明确的表面活性剂胶束沿蛋白质的随机分布的无规卷曲多肽链排列。通过在 BSA 水溶液中添加不同摩尔比的 SDS 和 DTAB 的混合物来调节蛋白质-表面活性剂相互作用。结果发现,在蛋白质-混合表面活性剂复合物中,两种表面活性剂中的一种的摩尔分数较低会导致形成连接的蛋白修饰胶束样结构,类似于纯表面活性剂的结构。当混合物中一种表面活性剂的摩尔分数接近等摩尔分数时,由蛋白质-混合表面活性剂形成的结构与连接的蛋白修饰胶束样结构非常不同。形成了不同的 BSA-混合表面活性剂复合物的微观结构,主要由混合表面活性剂的结构决定,这是由于相反电荷成分的强烈静电相互作用引起的。在这种情况下,展开的蛋白质包裹混合表面活性剂的结构在其表面周围。除了连接的蛋白修饰胶束样结构外,在混合表面活性剂的不同摩尔分数下还形成了蛋白-表面活性剂复合物的棒状和双层囊泡。