Cosenza, Chiara (2014) Molecular simulations of biomolecules-inorganic interactions for hybrid material design. [Tesi di dottorato]

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Item Type: Tesi di dottorato
Resource language: English
Title: Molecular simulations of biomolecules-inorganic interactions for hybrid material design
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Cosenza, Chiarachiara.cosenza@unina.it
Date: 31 March 2014
Number of Pages: 83
Institution: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Department: Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale
Scuola di dottorato: Ingegneria industriale
Dottorato: Ingegneria dei materiali e delle strutture
Ciclo di dottorato: 26
Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato:
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Mensitieri, Giuseppemensitie@unina.it
Tutor:
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Netti, Paolo AntonioUNSPECIFIED
Causa, FilippoUNSPECIFIED
Date: 31 March 2014
Number of Pages: 83
Keywords: surface bio-activation, gold-binding peptides
Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: Area 09 - Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione > ING-IND/22 - Scienza e tecnologia dei materiali
Aree tematiche (7° programma Quadro): NANOSCIENZE, NANOTECNOLOGIE, MATERIALE E PRODUZIONE > Nanoscienze e Nanotecnologie
NANOSCIENZE, NANOTECNOLOGIE, MATERIALE E PRODUZIONE > Materiali
Date Deposited: 13 Apr 2014 12:17
Last Modified: 17 May 2017 01:00
URI: http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/9912

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The adsorption of proteins to bio-material surfaces strongly affects the cellular response and consequently plays a key role in the bio-compatibility of medical implants. In order to define design criteria to promote surface bio-activation of metal surfaces we employed molecular simulations of different protein sequences. We have studied the conformational behavior of a previously selected gold-binding peptide on gold surface, alone and in conjugation with cell binding motifs, via molecular dynamics simulations. We found the conjugation of the peptide with the cell ligand sequence IKVAV offers the possibility to employ non covalent binding moieties to promote surface bio-activation of gold. This in silico approach could represent a tool to screen other sequences and characterize their adsorption to promote bio-activation not only of gold but also of other metal surfaces.

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