Research on gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) is being continued from the previous year. AuNPs were synthesized with bovine serum albumin (BSA) in H2O at various mole ratios of Au/BSA and their presence in solution was analyzed with UV-vis spectroscopy. Different methods of synthesizing AuNPs are being studied, including using adenosine deaminase or lysozyme rather than BSA.
Protein expression using ADA will be carried out in the near future.