Polypeptide Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Bioanalytical Applications.

• Superior document: Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations Series ; v.1598
• Author: Selegård, Robert.
• Place / Publishing House: Linköping : : Linkopings Universitet,, 2014.; {copy}2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (79 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• ABSTRACT
• TACK
• LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
• AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
• PUBLICATION NOT INCLUDED IN THIS THESIS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• AMINO ACIDS
• CONTENTS
• CHAPTER 1
• Introduction
• Bionanotechnology and Self-Assembly
• 2.1 Supramolecular chemistry
• 2.2 Molecular self-assembly
• 2.3 Nanotechnology and bionanotechnology
• 2.4 Nanocomposites and hybrid nanomaterials
• CHAPTER 3
• Structure of Proteins and Protein Folding
• 3.1 Protein folding
• 3.2 Circular dichroism spectroscopy
• CHAPTER 4
• Synthetic Peptides
• 4.1 JR2EC
• 4.2 KE2C
• 4.3 Peptide synthesis
• 4.3.1 Peptide purification
• 4.3.2 Peptide identification
• 4.4 Peptide functionalization
• 4.4.1 Click chemistry
• CHAPTER 5
• Metal Cations and Biomolecules
• 5.1 Metalloproteins
• 5.2 Attributes of zinc(II)
• 5.3 Zinc(II) - biomolecule interactions
• CHAPTER 6
• Colloidal Gold
• 6.1 Gold nanoparticle synthesis
• 6.2 Optical properties of gold nanoparticles
• 6.3 Colloidal stability
• 6.3.1 DLVO forces
• 6.3.2 Non-DLVO forces
• 6.4 Gold nanoparticles stabilized by JR2EC
• CHAPTER 7
• Polypeptide Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles
• 7.1 Immobilization of JR2EC onto gold nanoparticles
• 7.2 Zinc(II) induced aggregation
• CHAPTER 8
• Gold Nanoparticles in Bioanalytical Applications
• 8.1 Colorimetric assays
• 8.2 Colorimetric protein sensing
• 8.3 Colorimetric protease sensing
• 8.4 Colorimetric zinc-protein-chelant sensing
• 8.5 Colorimetric phosphatase sensing
• CHAPTER 9
• Summary of Papers
• CHAPTER 10
• Future Outlook
• CHAPTER 11
• References.