Technical tip: high-resolution isolation of nanoparticle–protein corona complexes from physiological fluids

Di Silvio, Desirè, Rigby, Neil, Bajka, Balazs, Mayes, Andrew, Mackie, Alan and Baldelli Bombelli, Francesca (2015) Technical tip: high-resolution isolation of nanoparticle–protein corona complexes from physiological fluids. Nanoscale, 7 (28). pp. 11980-11990. ISSN 2040-3364

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Abstract

Nanoparticles (NPs) in contact with biological fluids are generally coated with environmental proteins, forming a stronger layer of proteins around the NP surface called the hard corona. Protein corona complexes provide the biological identity of the NPs and their isolation and characterization are essential to understand their in vitro and in vivo behaviour. Here we present a one-step methodology to recover NPs from complex biological media in a stable non-aggregated form without affecting the structure or composition of the corona. This method allows NPs to be separated from complex fluids containing biological particulates and in a form suitable for use in further experiments. The study has been performed systematically comparing the new proposed methodology to standard approaches for a wide panel of NPs. NPs were first incubated in the biological fluid and successively recovered by sucrose gradient ultracentrifugation in order to separate the NPs and their protein corona from the loosely bound proteins. The isolated NP–protein complexes were characterized by size and protein composition through Dynamic Light Scattering, Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, SDS-PAGE and LC-MS. The protocol described is versatile and can be applied to diverse nanomaterials and complex fluids. It is shown to have higher resolution in separating the multiple protein corona complexes from a biological environment with a much lower impact on their in situ structure compared to conventional centrifugal approaches.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science > School of Pharmacy
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Materials and Catalysis
Related URLs:	http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=C5NR02618K
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	23 May 2016 11:02
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 01:10
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/58971
DOI:	10.1039/C5NR02618K

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