氧化还原蛋白质电化学研究*

研究氧化还原蛋白质与电极之间的电子传递过程不仅为理解代谢过程提供有价值的信息,而且为制备生物传感器奠定基础。本文从蛋白质修饰电极、蛋白质在电极表面的定向固定及蛋白质人工改造三方面,评述了近年来氧化还原蛋白质电化学研究的进展,并提出了今后可能的研究方向。     

氧化还原蛋白质的电荷传递及界面行为

本文综述了近年来氧化还原蛋白质电子传递与界面行为研究领域的最新进展.主要基于作者所在实验室并参考其他实验室的研究成果,总结了蛋白质与电极间的直接电子传递、蛋白质热力学和动力学性质、蛋白质的催化活性及其调节等相关领域的工作进展.近几年的研究表明,电化学技术已成为蛋白质研究的重要工具,对于氧化还原蛋白质的电子传递与界面行为的研究更是一种有效的技术手段.     

紫精类化合物分子聚集体材料的界面组装

紫精类化合物具有良好的电化学活性,并且在发生氧化还原反应时伴有颜色的变化,在膜修饰电极、电致变色材料和分子器件的研制等方面受到广泛的关注。紫精中的烷基链非常易于进行化学修饰,因而比较适合于通过自下而上的分子自组装技术制备多功能的分子和纳米材料。本文综述了利用Langmuir-Blodgett法、自组装法和层层组装法制备紫精分子聚集体材料的研究进展,并讨论了分子聚集体薄膜中紫精的结构、电致变色、电化学氧化还原特性及其在研制超分子器件方面的应用。     

细胞色素c突变体F82H的表面增强拉曼和电化学研究(英文)

应用表面增强拉曼光谱和循环伏安法研究了细胞色素c及其突变体F82H的氧化还原性质 .结果表明苯丙氨酸对组氨酸的取代使得蛋白质结构更为稳定 .相对于原体蛋白质 ,突变体的氧化还原电位向负电位方向移动 ,这被归因于由氧化还原过程中伴随有配体转换反应影响所致 .     

基于荧光染料和牛血清白蛋白嵌合物对氧化还原状态的探测

为制备一种与生物分子兼容性好并且具有较大动态检测范围的新型氧化还原探针,将氨苯乙烯类荧光分子4-[4-(二甲氨基)苯乙烯基]-1-甲基吡啶碘(p-DASPMI)嵌合到BSA中形成p-DASPMI-BSA嵌合体探针,采用稳态荧光光谱和时间分辨荧光光谱技术研究其与还原剂和氧化剂反应的荧光性质及相互作用的机理。实验表明,BSA能够感受环境的氧化还原状态,并通过p-DASPMI-BSA嵌合体探针的荧光变化来反映。在不同的氧化还原状态下,还原剂能使得探针的荧光强度增强3倍左右,平均寿命从1. 47 ns增加到2. 12 ns。而氧化剂使整个样品的荧光淬灭,平均寿命从2. 15 ns减小到1. 47 ns。时间分辨荧光数据表明氧化剂和还原剂会引起BSA的结构变化,进而影响进入BSA的p-DASPMI分子的数量,并最终影响整个体系的荧光性质。这个探针对氧化还原的动态检测范围能达到45倍左右,在研究细胞内大动态范围的氧化还原成像方面具有较好的应用前景。     

纳米金三明治结构调制细胞色素c电子传递特性的分子机理研究

以细胞色素c(Cyt c)为模型蛋白,采用表面增强红外吸收光谱监测了三明治结构所吸附的纳米金对氧化还原诱导的Cyt c表面增强红外差谱的改变.研究表明,在单层Cyt c分子表面组装纳米金,使得血红素的红外差谱特征峰明显增强,这归因于纳米金和血红素之间的电子传递.纳米金与Cyt c氧化还原活性中心血红素的相互作用加速了蛋白质的电子传递.这为实现并优化表面吸附蛋白质的直接电化学提供了一种新技术.     

固定在硬脂酸Langmuir-Blodgett膜中的辣根过氧化酶修饰电极的直接电化学行为

近年来,氧化还原蛋白质的直接电子转移反应引起了越来越多研究者的兴趣~([1]),研究氧化还原蛋白质的直接电子转移反应,不仅对于探索生命体内的生理作用机理等理论研究具有重要意义,而且为制备基于氧化还原蛋白质直接电化学行为的第三代生物传感器奠定了技术基础.本文研究了硬脂酸(SA)Langmuir-Blodgett(LB)膜固定的辣根过氧化物酶(HRP)在金电极(Au)上的直接电化学行为.     

尿素/氧化三甲胺混合溶剂影响单壁碳纳米管内部水合性质的分子动力学模拟

尿素是早已被人们认识的蛋白质变性剂,而氧化三甲胺则是最常用的蛋白质结构保护剂。虽然多年来被广泛应用在生物实验中,但是它们是如何在蛋白质结构形成中起作用,特别是氧化三甲胺是如何在高浓度尿素环境中起到抑制尿素蛋白变性作用的分子机制,至今仍然没有得到圆满解答。本文以单壁碳纳米管为模型疏水体系,采用分子动力学模拟研究尿素/氧化三甲胺混合溶液中纳米管内部水合性质,结果表明氧化三甲胺更易与水分子和尿素分子形成较强相互作用从而稳定了水溶液结构,这一结果亦表明了氧化三甲胺可以通过间接机制抵消尿素分子对于碳纳米管内部水合性质的影响。     

广义氧化还原滴定

根据广义氧化还原新概念 ,提出了广义氧化还原滴定。广义氧化还原滴定包括酸碱滴定、沉淀滴定、配位滴定和氧化还原滴定。它们的滴定曲线可以由相同的原理绘出     

铜锌超氧化物歧化酶(Cu2Zn2SOD)在汞电极上的吸附研究

金属氧化还原蛋白质的电化学行为作为生物电化学领域中一个重要的研究内容,受到了广泛的关注犤1～3犦,生物体系一些重要的反应均与基本电荷运动有关,如生物催化、神经传导、光合作用以及呼吸作用等均涉及到一些重要氧化还原蛋白质的氧化还原过程。利用电化学的基本原理和实验方法,不但能在生命体系和有机组织的整体水平上,更主要是能在分子和细胞水平上研究氧化还原蛋白质体系中的电子转移以及氧化态转化的化学本质和规律。铜锌超氧化物歧化酶(Cu2Zn2SOD)是一个二聚体,由两个等同的亚单位组成,每一个亚单位含有咪唑桥联的铜?和锌?离子,催…     

体积排阻色谱法测定胸腺肽分子量校准曲线条件的优化

在体积排阻色谱(SEC)法测定胸腺肽分子量校准曲线过程中,流动相中乙腈的比例对核糖核酸酶A、人胰岛素、胸腺肽α1和生长激素释放抑制因子4种蛋白的保留时间有重要影响,进而影响校准曲线的线性关系。当乙腈比例为75%时,胸腺肽分子量校准曲线线性最好,此时分子量校准方程为y=-3.138 6x+21.724,线性相关系数r2=0.988 5。4种蛋白的理论塔板数在45 783～63 345之间,拖尾因子在0.96～1.18之间,分离度在3.52～8.82之间。SEC法测定胸腺肽分子量校准曲线的液相色谱条件对4种蛋白的分离效果优异,分子量校准曲线线性良好,可用于胸腺肽制剂中高分子量物质的检测。     

Determination of the glass transition temperature of latex films: Comparison of various methods

The glass transition temperature (T_g) for two latices with different styrene/butadiene compositions was determined by the thermal SPM probe resonance frequency method. The results were compared with the T_g values obtained by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), dynamical mechanical analysis (DMA), process rheometer (PR) and thermo-mechanical analyzer (TMA) measurements. The T_g values detected by the thermal SPM method agreed well with the T_g values obtained by DSC and calculated by the Fox–Flory equation. DMA, on the other hand, showed a significantly higher T_g value for both latices than those obtained from theoretical calculations, the thermal SPM method and DSC. The T_g obtained from the PR curve was slightly higher for the latex with a low styrene content, whereas good agreement was obtained with the thermal SPM data for the latex with a high styrene content. The glass transition temperature determined by TMA agreed fairly well with the thermal SPM data for the latex with the low styrene content, whilst the value of T_g for the second latex was much less than those obtained by the other methods. The thermal SPM method detects changes in thermal behavior (thermal diffusivity, heat capacity) during heating of the latex films rather than changes in the mechanical properties. Information about the sample history could be seen in the thermal SPM curves, which was further associated with the degree of latex film formation, especially when the roughness of the films was taken into consideration.     

Domain formation in lipid bilayers probed by two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy

Two-dimensional infrared (2D-IR) spectroscopy has been used to probe structure and dynamics in binary sphingomyelin/phospholipid liposomes. The liposomes consist of 1-palmitoyl-2-linoleyl phosphatidylcholine (PLPC) and sphingomyelin (SPM) in the ratio 1:1. The diagonal part of the 2D-IR spectra shows two bands which are due to amide I of SPM and to the carbonyl moieties of PLPC. The diagonal components of the 2D-IR spectra reveal a difference in the molecular dynamics. The presence of off-diagonal cross-peaks indicates the occurrence of intermolecular structural correlation. The intensity of the cross-peaks is consistent with segregation of two lipid components into PLPC and SPM molecular domains.     

Characterization of Conjugates between α-Lactalbumin and Benzyl Isothiocyanate—Effects on Molecular Structure and Proteolytic Stability

In complex foods, bioactive secondary plant metabolites (SPM) can bind to food proteins. Especially when being covalently bound, such modifications can alter the structure and, thus, the functional and biological properties of the proteins. Additionally, the bioactivity of the SPM can be affected as well. Consequently, knowledge of the influence of chemical modifications on these properties is particularly important for food processing, food safety, and nutritional physiology. As a model, the molecular structure of conjugates between the bioactive metabolite benzyl isothiocyanate (BITC, a hydrolysis product of the glucosinolate glucotropaeolin) and the whey protein α-lactalbumin (α-LA) was investigated using circular dichroism spectroscopy, anilino-1-naphthalenesulfonic acid fluorescence, and dynamic light scattering. Free amino groups were determined before and after the BITC conjugation. Finally, mass spectrometric analysis of the BITC-α-LA protein hydrolysates was performed. As a result of the chemical modifications, a change in the secondary structure of α-LA and an increase in surface hydrophobicity and hydrodynamic radii were documented. BITC modification at the ε-amino group of certain lysine side chains inhibited tryptic hydrolysis. Furthermore, two BITC-modified amino acids were identified, located at two lysine side chains (K32 and K113) in the amino acid sequence of α-LA.     

Monolayers of a de novo designed 4-alpha-helix bundle carboprotein and partial structures on Au(111)-surfaces

Mapping of structure and function of proteins adsorbed on solid surfaces is important in many contexts. Electrochemical techniques based on single-crystal metal surfaces and in situ scanning probe microscopies (SPM) have recently opened new perspectives for mapping at the single-molecule level. De novo design of model proteins has evolved in parallel and holds promise for test and control of protein folding and for new tailored protein structural motifs. These two strategies are combined in the present report.We present a synthetic scheme for a new 4-alpha-helix bundle carboprotein built on a galactopyranoside derivative with a thiol anchor aglycon suitable for surface immobilization on gold. The galactopyranoside with thiol anchor and the thiol anchor alone were prepared for comparison. Voltammetry of the three molecules on Au(111) showed reductive desorption peaks caused by monolayer adsorption via thiolate-Au bonding. In situ STM of the thiol anchor disclosed an ordered adlayer with clear domains and molecular features. This holds promise, broadly for single-molecule voltammetry and the SPM and scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) of natural and synthetic proteins.     

扫描探针显微镜在导电聚合物研究中的应用

扫描探针显微镜在导电聚合物研究中的应用;扫描探针显微镜;导电聚合物;综述     

Electrical properties of polypyrrole wires measured by scanning probe microscope

Hybrid wires composed of metal and conducting polymer (polypyrrole, Ppy) were electrochemically synthesized using a template synthesis method. We showed that the dimensions of the hybrid wires can be tailored by controlling the time of electrolysis. The electrical properties of Ppy having different lengths were measured using a scanning probe microscope (SPM) tip as an electrode without aligning the hybrid wires on a substrate. Especially, temperature-dependent characteristics of the I-V curve were determined. As we expected, the shorter the Ppy wire is, the better the current response produced. The activation energy of each Ppy wire is determined. It is confirmed that the electrical properties of a single wire of Ppy can be measured by SPM.     

Spinodal Composition of the System Water + Chloroform + Acetic Acid at 25 °C

A theoretical spinodal curve for the system water + chloroform + acetic acid at 25 °C is derived using a lattice model for ternary amphiphilic solutions: rod-like molecules covering the bonds of the honeycomb lattice with three-body interactions between the molecular ends associated to the same lattice site. The molecular model is equivalent to the standard Ising model on the same lattice; its mean-field solution is the most appropriate for reproducing, by local fitting, the experimental data for the binodal composition. The derived spinodal curve is in very good agreement with the spinodal composition determined also in the present work from the measured diffusion coefficients recently reported for the same system.     

Applications of scanning probe microscopy in intrinsically conducting polymer research

The applications of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) in intrinsically conducting polymer research is briefly reviewed, including morphology observation, nanofabrication, microcosmic electrical property measurements, electrochemistry researches, in-situ measurements of film thickness change, and so on. At the same time, some important variations of SPM and the related techniques are briefly introduced. Finally, the future development of SPM in the study of intrinsically conducting polymers is prospected. Translated from Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry, 2006, 23 (2) (in Chinese)