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Apoferritin-Templated Biosynthesis of Manganese Nanoparticles and Investigation of Direct Electron Transfer of Mnnps–Hsafr at Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode Publisher Pubmed



Rafipour R1 ; Kashanian S2, 6 ; Hashemi S3 ; Omidfar K4, 7 ; Ezzati Nazhad Dolatabadi J5
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  1. 1. Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran
  2. 2. Faculty of Chemistry, Sensor and Biosensor Research Center (SBRC) & Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research Center (NNRC), Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
  3. 3. Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
  4. 4. Endocrine and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  5. 5. Research Center of Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
  6. 6. Nano Drug Delivery Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
  7. 7. Biosensor Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Molecular-Cellular Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Source: Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry Published:2017


Abstract

Manganese nanoparticles (MnNPs) were created within horse spleen apoferritin (HsAFr) cavity nanotemplates. Transmission electron microscopy revealed the particle size to be 6 nm. Intrinsic fluorescence data showed that the mineralization acted as a quencher of the HsAFr fluorescence, and extrinsic fluorescence data revealed that the hydrophobic binding site at the surface of HsAFr was not changed. Finally, the MnNP-HsAFr was immobilized onto multiwalled carbon nanotubes entrapped into chitosan (CS) matrices by through sequential 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide–N-hydroxysuccinimide and glutaraldehyde coupling. The MnNPs–HsAFr immobilized on CNT-CS/GC electrode was characterized by cyclic voltammetry. This charge transfer coefficient (α) and the exchange current (i0) of MnNPs–HsAFr immobilized on modified electrode in 0.1 M phosphate solution (pH 7.5) were found to be 0.57 and 0.48 μA, respectively. © 2015 International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.