Boron-titanate monolayer nanosheets for highly selective adsorption of immunoglobulin G

Nanoscale. 2019 May 16;11(19):9362-9368. doi: 10.1039/c9nr01111k.

Abstract

Boron-titanate monolayer nanosheets were prepared through a scalable step by step intercalation approach for anchoring 3-mercaptopropyltriethoxysilane (MPTS) on the surface. MPTS provides clickable sites with 4-vinylphenylboronic acid (VPBA) via a thiol-ene (TE) click reaction to obtain monolayer titanate nanosheets with boronic acid ligands immobilized on the surface. The nanosheets obtained are denoted as VPBA-MPTS-TiNSs, with a lateral dimension of a few dozen nanometers and with a thickness of ca. 3.5 nm. The nanosheets exhibit a superior adsorption capacity of 1669.7 mg g-1 and favorable selectivity for the adsorption of glycoproteins by employing immunoglobulin G (IgG) as the protein model. The adsorbed IgG is thereafter readily collected by using 0.1% (m/v) cetane trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) as the eluent. The practical applications of VPBA-MPTS-TiNSs are further demonstrated by the selective adsorption/purification of IgG from human serum.

MeSH terms

  • Adsorption
  • Boronic Acids / chemistry*
  • Humans
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Immunoglobulin G / blood
  • Immunoglobulin G / chemistry*
  • Immunoglobulin G / isolation & purification
  • Nanostructures / chemistry*
  • Organosilicon Compounds
  • Silanes / chemistry
  • Titanium / chemistry*
  • Vinyl Compounds / chemistry*

Substances

  • 4-vinylphenyl boronic acid
  • Boronic Acids
  • Immunoglobulin G
  • Organosilicon Compounds
  • Silanes
  • Vinyl Compounds
  • titanium dioxide
  • (3-mercaptopropyl)trimethoxysilane
  • Titanium