Dendrimer modified magnetite nanoparticles for protein immobilization.

A cascading polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimer was synthesized on the surface of magnetite nanoparticles to allow enhanced immobilization of bovine serum albumin (BSA). Characterization of the synthesis revealed exponential doubling of the surface amine from generations one through four starting with an amino silane initiator. Furthermore, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) revealed clear dispersion of the dendrimer-modified magnetite nanoparticles in methanol solution. The dendrimer-modified magnetite nanoparticles were used to carry out magnetic immobilization of BSA. BSA immobilizing efficiency increased with increasing generation from one to five and BSA binding amount of magnetite nanoparticles modified with G5 dendrimer was 7.7 times as much as that of magnetite nanoparticles modified with only aminosilane. There are two major factors that improve the BSA binding capacity of dendrimer-modified magnetite nanoparticles: one is that the increased surface amine can be conjugated to BSA by a chemical bond through glutaraldehyde; the other is that the available area has increased due to the repulsion of surface positive charge.

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