A generic approach based on long-lifetime fluorophores for the assessment of protein binding to polymer nanoparticles by fluorescence anisotropy

Ahmed, Marwa A. and Hessz, Dóra and Gyarmati, Benjámin and Páncsics, Mirkó and Gyurcsányi, Róbert E. and Kubinyi, Miklós and Horváth, Viola (2024) A generic approach based on long-lifetime fluorophores for the assessment of protein binding to polymer nanoparticles by fluorescence anisotropy. NANOSCALE, 16 (7). pp. 3659-3667. ISSN 2040-3364

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Abstract

Quantitation of protein-nanoparticle interactions is essential for the investigation of the protein corona around NPs in-vivo and when using synthetic polymer nanoparticles as affinity reagents for selective protein recognition in-vitro. Here, a method based on fluorescence anisotropy measurement is presented as a novel, separation-free tool for the assessment of protein-nanoparticle interactions. For this purpose, a long-lifetime luminescent Ru-complex is used for protein labelling, which exhibits low anisotropy when conjugated to the protein, but displays high anisotropy when the proteins are bound to the much larger polymer nanoparticles. As a proof of concept, the interaction of lysozyme with poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-N-tert-butylacrylamide-co-acrylic acid) nanoparticles is studied and fluorescence anisotropy measurements are used to establish the binding kinetics, binding isotherm and a competitive binding assay.

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