Molecular mechanisms of metal nanoparticles formation by bacterial synthesis

Abstract

The intermolecular interaction of protein structures with working solution salts used to produce silver sulfide nanoparticles by biosynthesis using gram-positive bacteria Bacillus subtilis 168 is studied using quantum chemical molecular modeling methods. One of bacterial synthesis defining components is the flagellin protein, which can self-organize into hollow cylindrical structures and, as shown by experimental studies, is the only protein adsorbed on resulting nanoparticles surface during synthesis based on Bacillus subtilis 168. The studied objects were AgNO3 and Na2S2O3 salts involved in the synthesis process, and non-standard amino acid methyllysin as a part of flagellin. The study of complexation was based on molecular structures and IR spectra calculation using the Density Functional Theory (DFT) methods with B3LYP functional and base set 6-31G (d) by the Gaussian 09 software package and on analysis of formed hydrogen bonds parameters. During the simulation, it was found that methyllysin forms fairly stable molecular complexes with silver nitrate AgNO3 and sodium thiosulfate Na2S2O3. This makes it possible to talk about the significant role of methyllysin in silver sulfide nanoparticles formation and clarifies the mechanism of its functioning as a part of flagellin.

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Inna L. Plastun
Saratov State Technical University named after Y.A.Gagarin
Russia

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