Enzyme mediated synthesis of hybrid polyedric gold nanoparticles.

ABSTRACT: Large protein complexes carry out some of the most complex activities in biology^1,2. Such structures are often assembled spontaneously through the process of self-assembly and have characteristic chemical or biological assets in the cellular mechanisms³. Gold-based nanomaterials have attracted much attention in many areas of chemistry, physics and biosciences because of their size- and shape-dependent optic, electric, and catalytic properties. Here we report for the first time a one step synthesis in which Manganese Superoxide Dismutase protein plays a key role in the reduction of gold salts via the use of a Good's buffer (HEPES) to produce gold nanoparticles, compared to other proteins as catalase (CAT) and bovine serum albumin (BSA).We prove that this effect is dire

SUBMITTER: Arib C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7864913 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature