TM-AFM Threshold Analysis of Macromolecular Orientation: A Study of the Orientation of IgG and IgE on Mica Surfaces

✍ Scribed by Magnus Bergkvist; Jan Carlsson; Torbjörn Karlsson; Sven Oscarsson

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 331 KB
• Volume: 206
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9797
• DOI: 10.1006/jcis.1998.5630

✦ Synopsis

Adsorption and orientation properties of two different types of immunoglobulin molecules on derivatized and native mica surfaces were investigated using TM-AFM. The analyses included height measurements at two different pH values and a new technique, presented here as threshold analysis, which displays the outer mantle shape of an adsorbed protein. A major difference in preferential orientation is observed upon comparing the adsorption of the two proteins onto the different surfaces. The characteristics of both the adsorbed immunoglobulin and the surface are important for any preferential orientation of the adsorbed protein. Copyright 1998 Academic Press.