Modulation of enzyme–substrate selectivity using tetraethylene glycol functionalized gold nanoparticles
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Modulation of enzyme-substrate selectivity using tetraethylene glycol functionalized gold nanoparticles.
Tetraethylene glycol (TEG) functionalized gold nanoparticles with 2 nm core diameters (AuTEG) enhance alpha-chymotrypsin (ChT) enzyme activity in a substrate-selective fashion. We explored the hydrolysis of four different substrates and observed a marked increase in activity with the most hydrophobic substrate N-succinyl-alanine-alanine-proline-phenylalanine- p-nitroanilide (TP), while the othe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nanotechnology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0957-4484,1361-6528
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/43/434004