Nanostructured interfaces for the investigation of bioactive substances in cell membrane models and for the construction of optoelectronic devices

• Grant number: 19/03239-0
• Support type: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: May 01, 2019 - October 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Physical-Chemistry
• Principal researcher: Luciano Caseli
• Grantee: Luciano Caseli
• Home Institution: Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas (ICAQF). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Diadema. Diadema , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In this project, we intend to use structures organized at the molecular level at interfaces as cell membrane models, and for the immobilization of enzymes for the production of enzymatic optoelectronic devices. For that, we will use Langmuir monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films. The films will be produced from materials of pharmacological and / or technological interest, in which insoluble amphiphiles, such as lipids, forming a monolayer at the air-water interface, pure or mixed with proteins, and bioactive potential compounds such as those with antifungal, or antitumor activity, will interact with the interface and be investigated by means of tensiometric, electrical, rheological, spectroscopic and morphological measurements. It is also intended to immobilize enzymes, antibodies and moieties of nucleic acids in LB films for the production of optoelectronic devices capable of molecular recognition. As a result, substances that aid in the molecular accommodation, modulating the biological activity and the response signal of the interaction, will be employed. Candidates include conductive polymers, metal nanoparticles, polysaccharides, graphene, and carbon nanotubes. In this sense, the remarkable interaction that the proponent has with groups inside and outside the institution, specialists in the obtaining of bioactive materials of interest, in Molecular Biology, and in the synthesis of conducting polymers. This fact allows, therefore, to make up such specialties, investigating at the molecular level interactions that aid in the understanding of biophysical and biochemical processes in cell membranes and also assist in the construction of intelligent surfaces constructed from bioinspired interfaces organized at the molecular level for the manufacture of optoelectronic devices such as biosensors. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ARAUJO, FELIPE TEJADA; PERES, LAURA OLIVEIRA; CASELI, LUCIANO. Conjugated Polymers Blended with Lipids and Galactosidase as Langmuir-Blodgett Films To Control the Biosensing Properties of Nanostructured Surfaces. Langmuir, v. 35, n. 22, p. 7294-7303, JUN 4 2019. (14/50869-6, 19/03239-0, 13/14262-7, 15/23446-0)

MACHADO, ANDRE C.; CASELI, LUCIANO. Interaction of nitrofurantoin with lipid langmuir monolayers as cellular membrane models distinguished with tensiometry and infrared spectroscopy. COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES, v. 188, APR 2020. (19/03239-0, 18/25943-9)

RODRIGUES, RAUL TORRES; SOUZA NORDI, CRISTIANA FREIRE; SIQUEIRA JUNIOR, JOSE ROBERTO; CASELI, LUCIANO. Effect of interfering agents for urease immobilized in Langmuir-Blodgett films of controlled molecular architecture. Thin Solid Films, v. 704, JUN 30 2020. (19/03239-0, 16/01867-6)

RODRIGUES, REBECA DA ROCHA; CASELI, LUCIANO; PERES, LAURA OLIVEIRA. Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Poly[(9,9-dioctylfluorene)-co-(3-hexylthiophene)] for Immobilization of Phytase: Possible Application as a Phytic Acid Sensor. Langmuir, v. 36, n. 35, p. 10587-10596, SEP 8 2020. (19/03239-0, 14/50869-6)

MACHADO, ANDRE CAMPOS; CASELI, LUCIANO. Ultrathin films to investigate the interaction of nitrofurantoin with phospholipids. Thin Solid Films, v. 725, MAY 1 2021. (18/25943-9, 19/03239-0, 18/22214-6)

SAKAI, ANDREI; DE SOUSA MESQUITA, ANA PAULA; DE CASTRO LEVATTI, ERICA VALADARES; STRAUS, ANITA HILDA; NADER, HELENA B.; LOPES, CARLA CRISTINA; CASELI, LUCIANO. Interaction of Trastuzumab with biomembrane models at air-water interfaces mimicking cancer cell surfaces. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES, v. 1861, n. 10, OCT 1 2019. (19/03239-0, 15/23446-0, 13/14262-7)

PAROLIN, GIOVANA A.; GONCALVES, GIULIA E. G.; COSTA-SILVA, THAIS A.; TEMPONE, ANDRE G.; CASELI, LUCIANO; LAGO, JOAO HENRIQUE G.; PERES, LAURA O.. Evaluation of the effects in cellular membrane models of antitrypanosomal poly-thymolformaldehyde (PTF) using Langmuir monolayers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES, v. 1863, n. 2, FEB 1 2021. (18/22214-6, 14/50869-6, 18/07885-1, 18/18180-9, 18/10279-6, 19/03239-0)

JAROQUE, GUILHERME NUNEZ; SARTORELLI, PATRICIA; CASELI, LUCIANO. Peptidoglycans modulating the interaction of a bactericide compound with lipids at the air-water interface. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, v. 237, JUL 2021. (19/03239-0, 18/22214-6)

RODRIGUES ROLA POSSARLE, LUIZ HENRIQUE; SIQUEIRA JUNIOR, JOSE ROBERTO; CASELI, LUCIANO. Insertion of carbon nanotubes in Langmuir-Blodgett films of stearic acid and asparaginase enhancing the catalytic performance. COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES, v. 192, AUG 2020. (19/03239-0)

DE SOUZA FURTADO, FERNANDO AUGUSTO; CASELI, LUCIANO. Enzyme activity preservation for galactose oxidase immobilized in stearic acid Langmuir-Blodgett films. Thin Solid Films, v. 709, SEP 1 2020. (19/03239-0)

DA SILVA, RAFAEL LEONARDO C. G.; GONCALVES, KARINA DE OLIVEIRA; COURROL, LILIA CORONATO; CASELI, LUCIANO. Study of the interactions of gold nanoparticles functionalized with aminolevulinic acid in membrane models. COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES, v. 205, SEP 2021. (19/03239-0, 18/00291-9, 17/23686-6, 18/22214-6)

RODRIGUES, RAUL T.; JR., JOSE R. SIQUEIRA; CASELI, LUCIANO. Structural and viscoelastic properties of floating monolayers of a pectinolytic enzyme and their influence on the catalytic properties. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, v. 589, p. 568-577, MAY 2021. (14/50869-6, 18/22214-6, 18/22091-1, 19/03239-0)

CRUZ GOMES DA SILVA, RAFAEL LEONARDO; SHARMA, SHIV K.; PAUDYAL, SURAJ; MINTZ, KEENAN J.; LEBLANC, ROGER M.; CASELI, LUCIANO. Surface Chemistry Studies on the Formation of Mixed Stearic Acid/Phenylalanine Dehydrogenase Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett Films. Langmuir, v. 37, n. 25, p. 7771-7779, JUN 29 2021. (19/01797-6, 18/22214-6, 18/00291-9, 19/03239-0)

DE SOUZA FURTADO, FERNANDO AUGUSTO; BERRIO ESCOBAR, JHON FERNANDO; MARTINEZ, ALEJANDRO MARTINEZ; GIORDANI, CRISTIANO; ALMEIDA CAIUT, JOSE MAURICIO; CASELI, LUCIANO; MOLINA, CELSO. Molecular Information on the Potential of Europium Complexes for Local Recognition of a Nucleoside-Based Drug by Using Nanostructured Interfaces Assembled as Langmuir-Blodgett Films. Langmuir, v. 36, n. 14, p. 3843-3852, APR 14 2020. (19/03239-0)

RODRIGUES, REBECA DA ROCHA; CRUZ GOMES DA SILVA, RAFAEL LEONARDO; CASELI, LUCIANO; PERES, LAURA OLIVEIRA. Conjugated polymers as Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett films: Challenges and applications in nanostructured devices. ADVANCES IN COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE, v. 285, NOV 2020. (18/00291-9, 14/50869-6, 19/03239-0)

BARBOSA, HENRIQUE; DA SILVA, RAFAEL LEONARDO C. G.; COSTA-SILVA, THAIS A.; TEMPONE, ANDRE G.; ANTAR, GUILHERME M.; LAGO, JOAO HENRIQUE G.; CASELI, LUCIANO. Interaction of dicentrinone, an antitrypanosomal aporphine alkaloid isolated from Ocotea puberula (Lauraceae), in cell membrane models at the air-water interface. BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY, v. 101, AUG 2020. (18/00291-9, 18/10279-6, 19/03239-0, 18/07885-1)

SANTANA, HEUNG JIN ALVES; CASELI, LUCIANO. A bactericide peptide changing the static and dilatational surface elasticity properties of zwitterionic lipids at the air-water interface: Relationship with the thermodynamic, structural and morphological properties. Biophysical Chemistry, v. 277, OCT 2021. (18/22214-6, 19/04402-2, 19/03239-0)

JAROQUE, GUILHERME NUNEZ; SARTORELLI, PATRICIA; CASELI, LUCIANO. The effect of the monocyclic monoterpene tertiary alcohol gamma-terpineol on biointerfaces containing cholesterol. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, v. 230, AUG 2020. (19/03239-0)

ROSA, MATHEUS ELIAS; ALVES CONSERVA, GEANNE A.; LAGO, JOAO HENRIQUE G.; CASELI, LUCIANO. nteraction of isolinderanolide E obtained from Nectandra oppositifolia with biomembrane model. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES, v. 1863, n. 10, OCT 2021. (19/03239-0, 16/20633-6, 18/22214-6, 19/04407-4)

SAKAI, ANDREI; DE SOUSA MESQUISTA, ANA PAULA; NADER, HELENA B.; LOPES, CARLA CRISTINA; NAKANISHI, WAKA; ARIGA, KATSUHIKO; CASELI, LUCIANO. The lipid composition affects Trastuzumab adsorption at monolayers at the air-water interface. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, v. 227, MAR 2020. (19/03239-0)