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Electrostatic conditions define the 2D self-assembly of tomato bushy stunt viruses on solid surfaces.
Biointerphases 2017 August 23
Plant viruses which are self-assembled on a substrate are interesting building blocks in nanobiotechnology, in particular, for the creation of 2D ordered structures. In this article, the self-assembly of different genetically modified types of the tomato bushy stunt virus spin-coated on pristine silicon was investigated by scanning force and scanning electron microscopy. Amino acid side chains were integrated in the capsids of the viruses by extending the coat protein with different charged amino acid clusters (tetra-aspartate-hexa-histidine, hexa-aspartate, or tetra-arginine-tags). The influence of the resulting electrostatic forces based on virus-virus and virus-surface interactions on the formation of self-assembled monolayers will be presented and discussed in the context of differences in surface coverage for different pH values. It could be shown that the largest surface coverage can be achieved when there is an attraction between the whole virus and the surface and only a minor repulsion between the viruses at a given pH.
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