SANS contrast variation study of magnetoferritin structure at various iron loading

Melnikova, Lucia and Petrenko, Viktor I. and Avdeev, Mikhail V. and Ivankov, Oleksandr I. and Bulavin, Leonid A. and Almásy, László (2015) SANS contrast variation study of magnetoferritin structure at various iron loading. JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS, 377. pp. 77-80. ISSN 0304-8853

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Abstract

Magnetoferritin, a synthetic derivate of iron storage protein – ferritin, has been synthesized with different iron oxide loading values. Small-angle neutron scattering experiments were applied to study the structure of magnetoferritin solutions using contrast variation method by varying the light to heavy water ratio of the solvent. Higher iron loading leads to increase of the neutron scattering length density of magnetoferritin and also to the increase of the polydispersity of complexes. The formation of the magnetic core and the variation of the protein shell structure upon iron loading are concluded.

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