Interaction Between Surfactin and Bovine Serum Albumin |
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| Authors: | Aihua Zou Jing Liu Ying Jin Fang Liu Bozhong Mu |
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| Affiliation: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai , P. R. China;2. State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Institute of Applied Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai , P. R. China;3. River and Coastal Environment Research Center, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences , Beijing , P. R. China |
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| Abstract: | The interaction of surfactin, a typical biosurfactant, with bovine serum albumin (BSA) was investigated by surface tension, fluorescence, freeze-fractured transmission electron microscopy (FF-TEM) and circular dichroism (CD) measurements. The surface tension curves of pure surfactin solution and surfactin/BSA solutions have different phenomena, where two obvious inflections determined as the critical aggregation concentration (cac) and the critical micelle concentration (cmc) appear for surfactin/BSA solutions. The higher BSA concentration, the higher cac and cmc values for surfactin/BSA solution. Fluorescence spectra show that the structure change of BSA is dependent on both surfactin and BSA concentration. The micropolarity, FF-TEM and CD results further demonstrate the interaction between BSA and surfactin. The excess free energy (ΔG0) of surfactin/BSA interactions have been obtained as ?6.13 and 5.32 kJ/mol for 1.0 × 10?6 and 3.8 × 10?6 mol/L BSA concentration, respectively. The binding ratio (R) determined for surfactin/BSA systems are higher than that reported for dirhamnolipid to BSA. Above all, it can be concluded that the hydrophobic interaction and the hydrogen bonds between surfactin and BSA play the key role for the high binding ratio for surfactin to BAS. |
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| Keywords: | Biosurfactant BSA interaction surface tension surfactin |
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