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JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 334, Issue -, Pages 11-25Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2021.05.002
Keywords
Proteins; Hydrophobicity; pH-dependent charge; Hydrophobic moment; Surface activity
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [ME 4546/1-1]
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The study found that the surface activity of proteins is correlated with non-buried amphiphilic secondary structural elements and a certain degree of flexibility, but not significantly related to factors like hydrophobicity and amphiphilicity.
Their surface activity enables proteins to form and stabilize foam, which can be used for in situ product separation or foam fractionation. Thus, it would be highly desirable to predict the surface activity of proteins based on their molecular properties like hydrophobicity, amphilicity, or structure on primary, secondary, and tertiary level. Ionic strength and pH were adjusted to gain maximum surface activity. The surface activity decreased in the order alpha lactalbumin > beta-lactoglobulin > trypsinogen > papain. For the theoretical analysis, the database was extended by including 2 hydrophobins into the investigation, since they are known to exhibit an outstanding surface activity. No relation to the macroscopic behavior was found considering the hydrophobicity. I.e., the nonhydrophobins did not differ significantly from each other, and from the hydrophobins, one was significantly hydrophobic, and the other was significantly hydrophilic. Also, no relations were found considering the amphilicity of the secondary structure elements. However, taking into account the tertiary protein structure, it was found that for most of the proteins investigated, the presence of non-buried amphiphilic secondary structure elements in combination with a certain amount of flexibility correlates with the surface activity.
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