Modulating protein adsorption onto hydroxyapatite particles using different amino acid treatments

Hydroxyapatite (HA) is a material of choice for bone grafts owing to its chemical and structural similarities to the mineral phase of hard tissues. The combination of osteogenic proteins with HA materials that carry and deliver the proteins to the bone-defective areas will accelerate bone regeneration. The study investigated the treatment of HA particles with different amino acids such as serine (Ser), asparagine (Asn), aspartic acid (Asp) and arginine (Arg) to enhance the adsorption ability of HA carrier for delivering therapeutic proteins to the body. The crystallinity of HA reduced when amino acids were added during HA preparation. Depending on the types of amino acid, the specific surface area of the amino acid-functionalized HA particles varied from 105 to 149 m² g^–1. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) and lysozyme were used as model proteins for adsorption study. The protein adsorption onto the surface of amino acid-functionalized HA depended on the polarities of HA particles, whereby, compared with lysozyme, BSA demonstrated higher affinity towards positively charged Arg-HA. Alternatively, the binding affinity of lysozyme onto the negatively charged Asp-HA was higher when compared with BSA. The BSA and lysozyme adsorptions onto the amino acid-functionalized HA fitted better into the Freundlich than Langmuir model. The amino acid-functionalized HA particles that had higher protein adsorption demonstrated a lower protein-release rate.     

硅掺杂羟基磷灰石生物活性微粉对人血清白蛋白的吸附特性

对含硅羟基磷灰石(Si-HA)与人血清白蛋白(HSA)的吸附特性及动力学特征进行了研究,计算了表观活化能,用等温吸附曲线进行拟合。结果表明,该吸附属于Langmuir型。Si-HA和HA吸附HSA的表观活化能分别为21.28和35.57 kJ.mol-1,20℃下吸附反应的速率常数分别为1.48和1.34 min-1,饱和吸附量分别为25.34和21.34 mg.g-1,Si-HA具有比纯HA更好的吸附优势。通过XRD、FTIR及荧光光谱分析,探讨了HSA在Si-HA和HA表面的吸附作用机制,表明Si-HA与蛋白表面吸附反应是以化学吸附为主、包含物理吸附的混合吸附过程。从分子结构的角度揭示了Si-HA和HA吸附蛋白质性能的差异,为进一步探讨Si-HA和HA生物相容性提供了新途径。