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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 107, Issue -, Pages 1692-1696Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2017.10.034
Keywords
Allantoin; Arginine; Thermal aggregation; Thermal stability; Circular dichroism
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Allantoin is widely used as a skin care agent and readily forms crystals, which were recently shown to bind endotoxins and high molecular weight aggregates in cell culture harvests. Here, we have investigated the effects of allantoin on thermal stability and aggregation of protein using ribonuclease, bovine serum albumin and lysozyme using temperature-regulated circular dichroism (CD) and differential scanning microcalorimetry (DSC). Ribonuclease showed no change in thermal stability and aggregation by the addition of allantoin. While allantoin showed no effects on the thermal stability of bovine serum albumin, it enhanced aggregation. Similarly, allantoin showed no stabilizing effects on lysozyme, but it strongly suppressed aggregation. Such suppressed aggregation resulted in reversibility of thermal unfolding of lysozyme. These effects of allantoin were then compared with those of NaCl and arginine hydrochloride. Arginine was similar to allantoin at low concentrations, where both solvent additives can be compared due to limited solubility of allantoin. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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