Research Article

Effects of Four Kinds of Oxide Nanoparticles on Proteins in Extracellular Polymeric Substances of Sludge

Table 3

Effects of NPs on EPS protein secondary structures in different EPS fractions.

EPS fractionsNPsSecondary structures (%)
Aggregated strandsβ-SheetRandom coliα-Helix3-turn helixAntiparallel β-sheet/aggregated strands
1610-1625 cm-11630-1640 cm-11640-1645 cm-11648-1657 cm-11659-1972 cm-11680-1695 cm-1

SEPSBlank14.58%17.70%16.86%17.74%15.75%17.37%
Al2O320.25%17.85%9.66%17.55%18.59%16.10%
Fe3O419.32%17.19%12.06%21.08%18.18%12.17%
ZnO17.83%13.34%13.84%15.14%24.48%15.37%
TiO216.67%21.04%11.48%12.46%25.77%12.59%

LB-EPSBlank13.31%22.52%21.75%19.49%12.50%10.42%
Al2O316.71%22.56%21.72%25.06%25.63%12.08%
Fe3O419.30%18.13%9.74%24.58%12.67%13.08%
ZnO16.18%14.63%13.64%15.42%25.14%11.89%
TiO220.02%23.26%9.59%15.96%16.01%12.09%

TB-EPSBlank15.54%15.87%15.65%17.1%26.00%9.79%
Al2O315.26%20.36%11.01%19.15%18.41%12.13%
Fe3O411.40%23.67%11.40%26.68%14.30%10.53%
ZnO14.85%13.11%14.25%16.07%27.91%13.80%
TiO210.26%14.27%13.84%15.24%13.05%5.71%