Immobilization of <b><i>α</i></b>-Chymotrypsin on the Surface of Magnetic/Gold Core/Shell Nanoparticles

Kamal Ahmadi, Mahmoud; Vossoughi, Manouchehr

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/830151

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Immobilization of α-Chymotrypsin on the Surface of Magnetic/Gold Core/Shell Nanoparticles

Mahmoud Kamal Ahmadi¹and Manouchehr Vossoughi²

Academic Editor: E. Goldys

Received23 Jul 2013

Accepted10 Oct 2013

Published29 Dec 2013

Abstract

Over the last decade, nanoparticles used as protein carriers have opened new avenues for a variety of biomedical applications. The main concern for these applications is changes in biological activity of immobilized proteins due to conformational changes on the surface of the carrier. To evaluate this concern, the preparation and biocatalyst activity of α-chymotrypsin-Fe₃O₄ @ Au core/shell nanoparticles were investigated. First, Fe₃O₄ @ Au core/shell nanoparticles were synthesized by coprecipitation method and citrate reduction of HAuCl₄. TEM imaging revealed a core size of 13 ± 3 nm and a shell thickness of 4 ± 1 nm for synthesized nanoparticles. X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to study the crystalline structure of the nanoparticles. Next, the enzyme was immobilized on the surface of synthesized nanoparticles by covalent bonding of Au shell with thiol and amine groups present in the protein structure (e.g., cysteine and histidine residues). FTIR and fluorescence spectroscopy were utilized to study secondary and tertiary structures of the immobilized enzyme. Results show that the secondary and tertiary structures of the enzyme remain virtually unchanged after immobilization on the nanoparticles surface. However, the biocatalyst activity of the enzyme was reduced by thirty percent, indicating possible conformational changes or active site occlusion.

1. Introduction

In the past decade, magnetic nanoparticles have been studied for their biomedical applications [1] such as cellular therapy [2, 3], drug delivery [4, 5], hyperthermia, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) [6, 7]. While one can find a comprehensive discussion on critical factors for interaction of nanoparticles with living cell and proteins in reviews by Rauch et al. [8] and Mahmoudi et al. [9], it could be summarized that nanoparticles must have biocompatibility and interactive functions at the surface to allow their use in biomedical applications [10, 11]. Both organic and inorganic coatings have been used for surface modification of magnetic nanoparticles [10, 12]. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) are mainly used for polymeric surface modification [13, 14]. Silica and gold are the most common inorganic molecules used to modify the surfaces of magnetic nanoparticles [10, 13]. A silica layer provides a rich surface of silanol groups that react easily with alcohols and silane coupling agents [15, 16]. However, of the available surface modifiers, gold shows great potentials for biomedical applications [10]. Gold not only confers stability to nanoparticles in oxidative solutions but also aids binding of various biological ligands through gold-thiol and gold-amine chemistry [17, 18]. Moreover, Au coating provides plasmonic properties which might be useful for some optical applications [19–21]. In spite of the aforementioned advantages of Fe₃O₄ @ Au nanoparticles, they are used to a lesser extent than bare gold or magnetic nanoparticles, primarily due to the difficulty of core/shell nanoparticles synthesis procedure [22]. Nevertheless, core/shell nanoparticles have found their own applications among the works of literature.

Tamer and coworkers [22] used core/shell Fe₃O₄-Au nanoparticles for two different bioassays: fructose measurement based on boronic acid-activated magnetic nanoparticles and immunomagnetic separation of E. coli. Their experiment validated the use of magnetic/gold core/shell nanoparticles for the detection of biological molecules and for magnetic bioseparation. Moreover, Xie and coworkers [23] showed that modified Fe₃O₄/Au core/shell nanoparticles with Ni²⁺-nitrilotriacetic acid may be used for rapid, efficient, and specific enrichment and separation of His-Tag fusion proteins directly from mixture of cell lysis. More recently, Cui et al. [24] made orientally bioconjugated core/shell Fe₃O₄ @ Au magnetic through covalent attachment of anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody. They further used this bioconjugation technique for cell separation, demonstrating a separation efficiency of 98.4% of CD3+ T cells from whole splenocytes.

In this study, we investigated the production of chymotrypsin-Fe₃O₄ @ Au core/shell bioconjugates and characterized their biocatalytic activity. Bioconjugates and synthesized nanoparticles were further characterized by UV-visible spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Additionally, secondary and tertiary structures of the chymotrypsin protein were investigated qualitatively by FTIR and fluorescence spectroscopy, respectively, revealing a mostly unaltered structure for the immobilized enzyme. However, casein activity test showed a thirty percent decrease in biocatalytic activity of the immobilized enzyme compared to unbound enzyme.

2. Materials and Methods

All chemicals were obtained from commercial sources and used as received. FeCl₃·6H₂O, FeSO₄·5H₂O, sodium hydroxide, Triton X-100 (TX-100), sodium citrate, trichloroacetic acid (TCA), and casein were purchased from Merck, Germany. Hydrogen tetrachloroaurate hydrate and bovine α-chymotrypsin (E.C. 3.4.21.1) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Milli-Q water (Millipore) was used throughout. Aqua regia solution (1 : 3 nitric acid/hydrochloric acids) was applied to clean all glassware used in nanoparticles synthesis.

UV-visible spectra in range of 300–800 nm were collected on a Perkin Elmer, Lambda 95, two-beam UV-visible spectrophotometer using 1 cm path length quartz cuvettes. TEM images were captured on a Philips-CM10 (100 kV). XRD measurements were performed on a Phillips PW 1800 X-ray diffraction system in the range of to 80 degrees. FTIR spectra were collected using a Tensor 27, Bruker Optics GmbH. The fluorescence of the enzyme-nanoparticles bioconjugates was measured using a Cary Eclipse fluorescence spectrometer.

2.1. Synthesis of Fe₃O₄ Nanoparticles

Magnetic nanoparticles were prepared by coprecipitation of Fe(ΙΙ) and Fe(ΙΙΙ), with a Fe(ΙΙ)/Fe(ΙΙΙ) ratio of 0.5 (1) [10]. In addition, Triton X-100 was used to introduce micelles. Briefly, 0.002 mol of FeCl₃·6H₂O and 0.001 mol of FeSO₄·5H₂O were dissolved in 100 mL of deionized water. To this solution, TX-100 was added to make a final Triton concentration of 0.0045 M. The solution was heated to 80°C. Then 4 mL of 10 M NaOH solution was added rapidly with vigorous stirring using an ultrasonic stirrer probe under argon atmosphere. The temperature was maintained at approximately 80°C, and stirring was continued for 30 min after the addition of NaOH solution. After this time, the heat source was removed, and the suspension was stirred at room temperature for another 2 hours using a mechanical stirrer to maximize surface adsorption of TX-100:

A black precipitate was collected on a permanent magnet and washed with deionized water three times. Finally, Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles were dispersed in DI water and used for further experiments.

2.2. Synthesis of Au Shell

Gold coating was synthesized on the nanoparticles using a method described previously [25] with some slight modifications. Briefly, a mixture of 5 mL of the magnetic suspension described above and 25 mL of 0.1% HAuCl₄ (i.e., 1 g/lit) was stirred vigorously for 30 min. Then 35 mL of 0.1 M sodium citrate was added dropwise. Stirring continued for another hour. In all steps, the temperature was maintained at approximately 50°C. The resulting nanoparticle solution was reddish brown. Using a permanent magnet, nanoparticles were collected, and the supernatant was discarded. The washing procedure was repeated three times, and, finally, core/shell nanoparticles were dispersed in 100 mL of DI water to be used in further tests.

2.3. Formation of Chymotrypsin-Colloidal Fe₃O₄ @ Au Nanoparticles

A 10⁻⁶ M standard solution of the enzyme, α-chymotrypsin (molecular weight 22500, pI 7.8), was prepared in PBS buffer (0.1 M, ). Different amounts of standard solution were added drop by drop to colloidal nanoparticles to yield various enzyme concentrations in the range of and 10⁻⁸ M in the conjugate solution. Due to the optimum biocatalytic activity of chymotrypsin occurring at , the pH of the colloidal Fe₃O₄ @ Au nanoparticles was adjusted to 7.6 in advance. The solution was kept for a period of 12 h at 4°C and then centrifuged to remove uncoordinated enzyme from the solution. The powder obtained from the solution was rinsed several times with buffer and suspended in the buffer and then stored at 4°C for future use. It is reported that immobilization is based on the covalent attachment of thiol and amine groups to the Au surfaces [26, 27].

2.4. Measurement of Enzyme Activity

The biocatalytic activities of chymotrypsin and chymotrypsin-nanoparticles conjugates were determined by reaction with casein in PBS buffer at (see (2)) [28]. In a typical experiment 300 μL of free protein or bioconjugate solution was reacted with 1 mL of casein solution (% l), in a total reaction volume of 2 mL. The mixture was incubated at 50°C (optimum temperature for chymotrypsin) for 20 min (results for 10-, 15- and 25-minute incubations are almost identical, not shown here). After the incubation, 1 mL of trichloroacetic acid 20% was added to the reaction solution to precipitate the residual casein. After 45 min the precipitate was removed by centrifugation, and the optical absorbance of the supernatant was measured at 280 nm. The experiments were repeated three times to establish the reproducibility of the results:

Chymotrypsin digests casein to yield soluble polypeptides including tryptophan and tyrosine residues, which can be detected by their strong UV absorbance at 280 nm. Measured UV absorbance was related to mass of tyrosine produced by using a tyrosine standard calibration curve.

3. Results and Discussion

3.1. Characterization of the Core/Shell Nanoparticles

The UV-visible absorption spectra of the dispersion of pure Fe₃O₄, Fe₃O₄ @ Au core shell nanoparticles and synthesized bioconjugates are shown in the range of 400 to 700 nm in Figure 1. For bare Fe₃O₄ the absorption increases as the wavelength decreases, which has been reported previously [22, 29]. However, after the fabrication of a gold shell, a peak can be observed at approximately 550 nm, indicating the successful formation of a gold shell by the method described above. In addition attachment of enzyme is accomplished by a broadening and redshift of the plasmon resonance, which is related to the presence of chymotrypsin on the surface of the nanoparticles. The broadening of the plasmon resonance indicates degree of aggregation of the nanoparticles mediated by the protein molecules [22, 26, 27].

The size of synthesized nanoparticles was characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). TEM micrograph (Figure 2(a)) shows that the average diameter of pure Fe₃O₄ was approximately nm. However, after modification of the core nanoparticles by addition of an Au shell, the particle size increased to nm. Therefore, the thickness of the Au shell was approximately 4 nm. The thickness of the shell might be changed by varying the experimental parameters, especially the ratio of HAuCl₄/Fe₃O₄, which is the most critical factor [30].

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Crystalline structures of Fe₃O₄ and the core/shell nanoparticles were further examined by XRD. Figure 3 shows the XRD pattern of the synthesized nanoparticles. The experimentally obtained patterns were identified by comparison with standard Fe₃O₄ and Au patterns. Figure 3(a) shows the XRD pattern of the synthesized Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles. This pattern shows characteristic peaks at , 35.2, 43.1, 56.9, 62.8, and 74.3. These peaks are indicative of the pure face-centered cubic structure of Fe₃O₄, with a dominant crystal plane of 111 [31]. Figure 3(b) shows the XRD pattern of the nanoparticles after being coated with gold. Peaks at , 38.1, 44.4, 64.5, and 77.4 are assigned to the Au-Fe position and indicate the formation of gold coat on the surface of the iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles [22, 30].

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3.2. Characterization of the Enzyme-Nanoparticle Bioconjugate

To enable proper biocatalyst activity, the secondary and tertiary structures of protein should remain essentially unchanged after immobilization on the surface. Though FTIR can be used for the quantitative study of proteins secondary structure, it was used here only to obtain qualitative information about the secondary structure. The amide linkages between amino acid residues in polypeptides and proteins produce well-known signatures in FTIR spectra. The positions of amide and amide bands in the FTIR spectra of proteins are sensitive indicators of conformational changes in the secondary structure [26, 27]. The amide band is assigned to the stretch mode of the carbonyl group coupled to the amide linkage, and the amide band arises due to N–H vibration in the amide [26, 27, 32].

Figure 4 shows the FTIR spectra of nanoparticles before and after conjugation. Different stretching and bending modes give rise to various peaks in the specified range. A broadband at approximately 3445 is assigned to the stretch of the N–H bonds in the enzyme. This band could also represent O–H vibrations from trapped water molecules in the enzyme-nanoparticles bioconjugate film. Two small features at approximately 2800 to 3000 are assigned to the methylene asymmetric and symmetric vibrations of the hydrocarbons present in the enzymes. The peaks at 1636 and 1410 result from C=O stretching of the amide and amide bands, respectively. Moreover, peaks in the range of 850 to 1260 are assigned to C–H and C–N stretching in the aryl structure of amino acids residues, such as histidine.

The biocatalytic activity of the enzyme largely depends on its tertiary structure, which ideally should remain unchanged when the enzyme is immobilized on the surface of the core/shell nanoparticles. The standard procedure for studying tertiary structure of enzymes involves measuring fluorescence emission from the tryptophan or tyrosine residues in the enzyme [33]. In this study, the tertiary structure of the immobilized enzyme was studied by excitation of the transition in the tryptophan or tyrosine residues at 280 nm.

Figure 5 shows the fluorescence spectra recorded for a M buffer solution of free enzyme at , as well as the fluorescence spectra of M and M bioconjugate solution (these are final concentrations of added enzyme in nanoparticles’ solutions; see Section 2.3). As the figure shows, the intensities of the absorbance maxima show small shifts, but the maximum occurs at approximately 350 nm in all four solutions. This finding indicates that the enzyme molecules retain their natural configuration well and that their tertiary structures are nearly the same when immobilized as in free solutions. The fluorescence spectra of PBS buffer and bare nanoparticles were also studied by excitation at 280 nm. For these two controls, we observe no emission in the range considered.

Fluorescence spectroscopy results also can be used to measure the amount of chymotrypsin present in the bioconjugate solution by comparing the intensity of the maximal emission (i.e., the emission at 350 nm) with the standard calibration curve [27]. The calibration curve was obtained by plotting the fluorescence intensities of different concentrations of enzyme in PBS buffer. Concentration of enzyme in the bioconjugate assay was determined to be M for the M starting solution. Consequently, an important parameter for estimation of specific activity of the bioconjugate solution, for three random sets of experiments involving protein not immobilized in the supernatant and washing, was measured (absorbance assay at 280 nm), and by difference calculation with initial enzyme concentrations the reliability of the fluorescence results was confirmed to extent.

3.3. Biocatalytic Activity

Having determined the concentration of the immobilized enzyme based on the fluorescence data and the amount of tyrosine produced based on the UV assay (Section 2.4), estimation of biocatalyst activity of the immobilized enzymes can be performed using (2). For comparison, biocatalytic activity of an identical concentration of free enzyme was recorded. For example, for the aforementioned case of a M starting solution (that produced a M immobilized enzyme concentration; see Section 3.2) the activity of the chymotrypsin-nanoparticle bioconjugate was calculated to be units while the activity was units for free enzyme with the same concentration. Thus, the activity of chymotrypsin was reduced by approximately 30% after immobilization on the surface of Fe₃O₄ @ Au core/shell nanoparticles.

As mentioned, we observed a decrease in enzyme activity; however, contradictory results have been reported for systems of different enzymes and nanoparticles in the work of the literature. The immobilization of pepsin and fungal protease on the surface of 4 nm gold nanoparticles [26, 27] and the immobilization of glucose oxidase on 20 nm gold nanoparticles caused almost no changes in the activities of the enzymes [34]. The activity of chymotrypsin decreases by 50 percent after immobilization on 10 nm bare Fe₃O₄ magnetic nanoparticles [35]. The activity of lipase also decreases upon immobilization on the surface of gamma-Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles [36]. On the other side, it has been reported that the attachment of cholesterol oxidase to magnetic nanoparticles increases the stability and activity of the enzyme [37]. Stabilization of α-chymotrypsin by covalent immobilization on the amine-functionalized magnetic nanogel yielded in 40% loss of activity, while the immobilized enzyme had better resistance to temperature and pH inactivation in comparison to free enzyme [38]. By consideration of protein coronas and cell vision one might explain the conflictory results reported for dissimilar nanoparticles-protein systems [39–41].

There are many factors that might influence conformation, activity, and live length of absorbed protein coronas on surface of nanoparticles. Size, shape, surface charge and curvature, solubility, and composition of nanoparticles all might affect nature of protein binding to the surface of nanoparticles [41]. Effect of these parameters on protein absorption will be more critical as one passes from modelistic in vitro systems to realistic in vivo where protein concentration and system complexity are quite significant [40, 42, 43]. For a full discussion on influential factors in protein-nanointeraction, one might refer to decent review by Mahmoudi and coworkers [41]. In addition to protein coronas, safe design of nanoparticles in regard to nanotoxicology is another crucial factor to be considered in design and usage of any nanoparticle-based systems for biomedical applications. Of more interest is the fact that uptake and defense mechanism of living cells toward the same nanoparticles could differ from a cell line to another, a concept best described by the term “cell vision” [44]. For instance, Mahmoudi and coworkers used MTT assay and a DNA microarray analysis to study effect of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles with various surface modifications (COOH, plain, and NH₂) through the comparison with gene expression patterns of three cell types (human heart, brain, and kidney). They found that not only surface groups but also the cell type can have a significant role in the definition of suitable pathways for detoxification of exogenous nanoparticles [45]. Besides importance on nanotoxicology, attention to cell vision, along with protein coronas, is vital to get a better understanding on interaction of nanoparticles in biological systems [39, 45].

While some of the mentioned parameters are of high importance for complex biological serum, on a simple system of one protein in a buffer and one specific nanoparticle, effect of nanoparticles’ features will be more profound [41]. Such that, the observed decrease in chymotrypsin bioactivity can be explained by several phenomena. The likely critical factor is conformational change experienced by the enzyme upon attachment to the surface of the nanoparticles (loosely indicated by small horizontal shift in fluorescence spectra, Figure 5). This conformational change occurs most probably because of the surface curvature [32, 41]. The weight of this factor increases with aggregation of nanoparticles and particle size increases [46, 47]. Aggregation also inhibits substrate diffusion to the enzyme active site [41]. In addition, chymotrypsin contains histidine residues in its active site leading to potential binding of its catalytic site. If that happens, it will decrease the biocatalyst activity of the enzyme [32]. However, the first factor is more likely the dominant reason for this decrease in activity [26, 27, 32].

4. Conclusion

α-Chymotrypsin-Fe₃O₄ @ Au core/shell nanoparticles bioconjugates have been prepared by the addition of the enzyme to colloidal nanoparticles at the proper pH. The formation of such bioconjugates is based on the covalent binding of thiol groups in the cysteine residues and amine groups in the lysine or histidine residues of the enzyme to the gold surface. FT-IR and fluorescence studies indicate that the secondary and tertiary structures of the enzyme remained unperturbed when bound on the surface of nanoparticles. However, estimation of the biocatalytic activity of the enzyme showed a 30% decrease in activity for the immobilized enzyme, as compared to the free enzyme. Conformational changes and the direct binding of the enzyme’s active site to the surface could be the two main reasons for this decrease. Additional nanoparticles surface modifications and reductions in the size of the nanoparticles may help to enhance the activity of immobilized enzyme.

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