Magnetic Force-Induced Alignment of Microtubules by Encapsulation of CoPt Nanoparticles Using a Tau-Derived Peptide.

Nano Letters
Hiroshi InabaKazunori Matsuura

Abstract

Construction of magnetotactic materials is a significant challenge in nanotechnology applications such as nanodevices and nanotransportation. Artificial magnetotactic materials can be designed from magnetotactic bacteria because these bacteria use magnetic nanoparticles for aligning with and moving within magnetic fields. Microtubules are attractive scaffolds to construct magnetotactic materials because of their intrinsic motility. Nonetheless, it is challenging to magnetically control their orientation while retaining their motility by conjugating magnetic nanoparticles on their outer surface. Here we solve the issue by encapsulating magnetic cobalt-platinum nanoparticles inside microtubules using our developed Tau-derived peptide that binds to their internal pockets. The in situ growth of cobalt-platinum nanoparticles resulted in the formation of a linear-chain assembly of nanoparticles inside the microtubules. The magnetic microtubules significantly aligned with a high order parameter (0.71) along the weak magnetic field (0.37 T) and showed increased motility. This work provides a new concept for designing magnetotactic materials.

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