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Serum albumin enhances the membrane activity of ZnO nanoparticles
Adam H Churchman1, Rachel Wallace, Steven J Milne
1Centre for Molecular Nanoscience, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 17, 2013
Abstract:
We investigate the effect of serum albumin on the interaction of ZnO nanoparticles with DOPC lipid membranes and show that the size-stabilizing effect of the protein corona enhances their interaction with lipid membranes, which manifests, in part, as an increased ordering in the lipid packing.
