TY - JOUR A1 - Sivanesan, Arumugam A1 - Kalaivani, Govindasamy A1 - Fischer, Anna A1 - Stiba, Konstanze A1 - Leimkühler, Silke A1 - Weidinger, Inez M. T1 - Complementary surface-enhanced resonance raman Spectroscopic Biodetection of mixed protein solutions by Chitosan- and Silica-Coated Plasmon-Tuned Silver Nanoparticles T2 - Analytical chemistry N2 - Silver nanoparticles with identical plasmonic properties but different surface functionalities are synthesized and tested as chemically selective surface-enhanced resonance Raman (SERR) amplifiers in a two-component protein solution. The surface plasmon resonances of the particles are tuned to 413 nm to match the molecular resonance of protein heme cofactors. Biocompatible functionalization of the nanoparticles with a thin film of chitosan yields selective SERR enhancement of the anionic protein cytochrome b(5), whereas functionalization with SiO2 amplifies only the spectra of the cationic protein cytochrome c. As a result, subsequent addition of the two differently functionalized particles yields complementary information on the same mixed protein sample solution. Finally, the applicability of chitosan-coated Ag nanoparticles for protein separation was tested by in situ resonance Raman spectroscopy. Y1 - 2012 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/35771 SN - 0003-2700 VL - 84 IS - 13 SP - 5759 EP - 5764 PB - American Chemical Society CY - Washington ER -