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ArticleACS applied materials & interfaces2021

Robust Photoelectric Biomolecular Switch at a Microcavity-Supported Lipid Bilayer.

Guilherme B Berselli, Aurélien V Gimenez, Alexandra O'Connor, Tia E Keyes

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Article in ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2021. 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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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Guilherme B BerselliSchool of Chemical Sciences, National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University, Dublin D09 FW22, Ireland.
Aurélien V GimenezSchool of Chemical Sciences, National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University, Dublin D09 FW22, Ireland.
Alexandra O'ConnorSchool of Chemical Sciences, National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University, Dublin D09 FW22, Ireland.
Tia E KeyesSchool of Chemical Sciences, National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University, Dublin D09 FW22, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4604-5533
Dublin City University · IE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomolecular devices based on photo-responsive proteins have been widely proposed for medical, electrical, and energy storage and production applications. Also, bacteriorhodopsin (bR) has been extensively applied in such prospective devices as a robust photo addressable proton pump. As it is a membrane protein, in principle, it should function most efficiently when reconstituted into a fully fluid lipid bilayer, but in many model membranes, lateral fluidity of the membrane and protein is sacrificed for electrochemical addressability because of the need for an electroactive surface. Here, we reported a biomolecular photoactive device based on light-activated proton pump, bR, reconstituted into highly fluidic microcavity-supported lipid bilayers (MSLBs) on functionalized gold and polydimethylsiloxane cavity array substrates. The integrity of reconstituted bR at the MSLBs along with the lipid bilayer formation was evaluated by fluorescence lifetime correlation spectroscopy, yielding a protein lateral diffusion coefficient that was dependent on the bR concentration and consistent with the Saffman-Delbrück model. The photoelectrical properties of bR-MSLBs were evaluated from the photocurrent signal generated by bR under continuous and transient light illumination. The optimal conditions for a self-sustaining photoelectrical switch were determined in terms of protein concentration, pH, and light switch frequency of activation. Overall, a significant increase in the transient current was observed for lipid bilayers containing approximately 0.3 mol % bR with a measured photo-current of 250 nA/cm

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BacteriorhodopsinsDimethylpolysiloxanesElectrochemical TechniquesGoldLightLipid BilayersPhosphatidylcholinesPhosphatidylethanolaminesPhotochemical ProcessesUnilamellar Liposomes1,2-oleoylphosphatidylcholineBacteriorhodopsinsbaysilonDimethylpolysiloxanesdioleoyl phosphatidylethanolamineGoldLipid BilayersPhosphatidylcholinesPhosphatidylethanolaminesUnilamellar Liposomesbacteriorhodopsin (bR)bioinspired electrical devicemicrocavity-supported lipid bilayer (MSLB)photo-deviceprotein photoactivation

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PMID34121400
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