Journal
PROTEIN SCIENCE
Volume 19, Issue 9, Pages 1783-1795Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pro.465
Keywords
L-arginine; rPA; IAA-rPA; aggregation; equilibrium solubility
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- Land Sachsen-Anhalt (Landesexzellenznetzwerk Strukturen und Mechanismen der biologischen Information-sverarbeitung)
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L-Arginine hydrochloride (L-ArgHCl) was found to be an effective enhancer for in vitro protein refolding more than two decades ago. A detailed understanding of the mechanism of action, by which L-ArgHCl as co-solvent is capable to effectively suppress protein aggregation, while protein stability is preserved, has remained elusive. Concepts for the effects of co-solvents, which have been established over the last decades, were found to be insufficient to completely explain the effects of L-ArgHCl on protein refolding. In this article, we present data, which clearly establish that L-ArgHCl acts on the equilibrium solubility of the native model protein recombinant plasminogen activator (rPA), while for S-carboxymethylated rPA (IAA-rPA) that served as a model protein for denatured protein states, equilibrium solubilities could not be obtained. Solid to solute free transfer energies for native rPA were lowered by up to 14 kJ mol(-1) under the tested conditions. This finding is in marked contrast to a previously proposed model in which L-ArgHCl acts as a neutral crowder which exclusively has an influence on the stability of the transition state of aggregation. The effects on the apparent solubility of IAA-rPA, as well as on the aggregation kinetics of all studied protein species, that were observed in the present work could tentatively be explained within the framework of a nucleation-aggregation scheme, in which L-ArgHCl exerts a strong effect on the pre-equilibria leading to formation of the aggregation seed.
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