Monodispersed silk fibroin microdroplets for protein stabilization
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Journal Article
Abstract
Low stability of globular protein droplets in emulsion significantly limits their applications in drug encapsulation, long-term storage, and controlled drug release. Here, a microfluidic flow-focusing device was utilized to synthesize horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-loaded silk fibroin microdroplets. The two immiscible streams of microfluidic flow-focusing were regenerated by silk fibroin solution and a mixture of 95 wt. % sunflower oil and 5 wt. % span 80 as the dispersed and continuous phases, respectively. In this study, the water-in-oil silk fibroin microdroplets were homogeneously produced by leveraging the discrete and periodic breakup of microdroplets and regulating the flow rates. Moreover, the result showed that the stability of encapsulated HRP in microdroplets was 25% higher than that of HRP after 6 weeks incubation. Thus, the microfluidic flow-focusing is a promising technique to form monodisperse microdroplets and maximize the stability of protein droplets.
Date Issued
2018-04-23
Date Acceptance
2018-04-11
Citation
Applied Physics Letters, 2018, 112 (17), pp.1-4
ISSN
0003-6951
Publisher
American Institute of Physics
Start Page
1
End Page
4
Journal / Book Title
Applied Physics Letters
Volume
112
Issue
17
Identifier
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Applied
Physics
DROPLET-BASED MICROFLUIDICS
FLOW-FOCUSING DEVICE
MICROPARTICLES
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 173701
Date Publish Online
2018-04-24