Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 36, Issue 6, Pages 1401-1408Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00186
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- Max-Planck society
- Swiss National Science Foundation [P2GEP2_181528]
- University of Glasgow
- German Research Foundation [SCHM 3282/3-1]
- China Scholarship Council
- Emmy-Noether program of the German Research Foundation [ZE 1121/3-1]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [P2GEP2_181528] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Macromolecular crowding plays a critical role in the kinetics of enzymatic reactions. Dynamic compartmentalization of biological components in living cells due to liquid-liquid phase separation represents an important cell regulatory mechanism that can increase enzyme concentration locally and influence the diffusion of substrates. In the present study, we probed partitioning of two enzymes (horseradish-peroxidase and urate-oxidase) in a poly(ethylene glycol)-dextran aqueous two-phase system (ATPS) as a function of salt concentration and ion position in the Hofmeister series. Moreover, we investigated enzymatic cascade reactions and their kinetics within the ATPS, which revealed a strong influence of the ion hydration stemming from the background electrolyte on the partitioning coefficients of proteins following the Hofmeister series. As a result, we were able to realize cross-partitioning of two enzymes because of different protein net charges at a chosen pH. Our study reveals a strong dependency of the enzyme activity on the substrate type and crowding agent interaction on the final kinetics of enzymatic reactions in the ATPS and therefore provides substantial implications en route toward dynamic regulation of reactivity in synthetic protocells.
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