title: The role of surface functionalization of colloidal alumina particles on their controlled interactions with viruses.
abstract: Materials that interact in a controlled manner with viruses attract increasing interest in biotechnology, medicine, and environmental technology. Here, we show that virus-material interactions can be guided by intrinsic material surface chemistries, introduced by tailored surface functionalizations. For this purpose, colloidal alumina particles are surface functionalized with amino, carboxyl, phosphate, chloropropyl, and sulfonate groups in different surface concentrations and characterized in terms of elemental composition, electrokinetic, hydrophobic properties, and morphology. The interaction of the functionalized particles with hepatitis A virus and phages MS2 and PhiX174 is assessed by virus titer reduction after incubation with particles, activity of viruses conjugated to particles, and imaged by electron microscopy. Type and surface density of particle functional groups control the virus titer reduction between 0 and 99.999% (5 log values). For instance, high sulfonate surface concentrations (4.7 groups/nm(2)) inhibit attractive virus-material interactions and lead to complete virus recovery. Low sulfonate surface concentrations (1.2 groups/nm(2)), native alumina, and chloropropyl-functionalized particles induce strong virus-particle adsorption. The virus conformation and capsid amino acid composition further influence the virus-material interaction. Fundamental interrelations between material properties, virus properties, and the complex virus-material interaction are discussed and a versatile pool of surface functionalization strategies controlling virus-material interactions is presented.
authors.affiliation: Advanced Ceramics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: Fabian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Meder
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wehling
authors.forename: Artur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fink
authors.forename: Beate
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Piel
authors.forename: Kaibo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Kristian
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Frank
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosenauer
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Treccani
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Koeppen
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dotzauer
authors.forename: Kurosch
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rezwan
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption / Q000187:drug effects; D000537:Aluminum Oxide / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D010584:Bacteriophage phi X 174 / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002213:Capsid / Q000737:chemistry / Q000187:drug effects; D002460:Cell Line; D003102:Colloids / Q000494:pharmacology*; D057927:Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions / Q000187:drug effects; D017909:Levivirus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D055672:Static Electricity; D013227:Steam; D013499:Surface Properties; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D003102:Colloids; D013227:Steam; D000537:Aluminum Oxide