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ArticleAnalytical and bioanalytical chemistry2011

Hydrophobin can prevent secondary protein adsorption on hydrophobic substrates without exchange.

Bernhard von Vacano, Rui Xu, Sabine Hirth, Ines Herzenstiel, Markus Rückel, Thomas Subkowski, Ulf Baus

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Article in Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Bernhard von VacanoPolymer Physics, BASF SE, Carl-Bosch-Str. 38, 67056, Ludwigshafen, Germany. bernhard.von-vacano@basf.com
Rui Xu
Sabine Hirth
Ines Herzenstiel
Markus Rückel
Thomas Subkowski
Ulf Baus
BASF (Germany) · DERobert Bosch (Germany) · DEBASF (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

By combining several surface analytical tools, we show that an adsorbed layer of the protein H*Protein B prevents the adsorption of secondary proteins bovine serum albumin, casein, or collagen at low-salinity conditions and at pH 8. H*Protein B is an industrially producible fusion protein of the hydrophobin family, known for its high interfacial activity. While applications of hydrophobin have been reported to facilitate adhesion of proteins under different pH conditions, careful analysis by quartz-crystal microbalance and ellipsometry prove that no additional adsorption can be found on top of the H*Protein B layer in this study. Surface analysis by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and secondary ion mass spectrometry proves that the hydrophobin layer stays intact even after hours of exposure to solutions of the secondary proteins and that no exchange of proteins can be detected.

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AdsorptionProteinsSpectrum AnalysisSurface PropertiesX-RaysProteins

Identifiers

PMID21461987
PMCPMC3098362
OpenAlexW2010717793

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