期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
卷 50, 期 5, 页码 1286-1291出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2012.03.014
关键词
Alcohol precipitation; Crystallization; Denaturation; Destabilization; Hydrophobic interaction; SH-modification
资金
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan [23550189]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23550189] Funding Source: KAKEN
Differential precipitation of human plasma by ethanol is one of the most important processes for purifying therapeutic proteins, including human serum albumin. Better understanding of the effects of ethanol on the structure and stability of proteins is critical for effective and safe application of ethanol-induced protein precipitation. Here, we examined the effects of ethanol on the structure and solubility of bovine serum albumin (BSA) and SH-modified BSA. Ethanol caused BSA denaturation in a bimodal fashion, i.e., reduction of alpha-helix at low concentration and subsequent induction of the alpha-helical structure at higher concentration. In contrast, the solubility of BSA decreased monotonically. The secondary structure of SH-modified BSA was different from that of native BSA. Ethanol resulted in enhanced secondary structures of SH-modified BSA and decreased solubility monotonically. These results suggest the favorable interaction of ethanol with hydrophobic residues, leading to protein denaturation, but the unfavorable interaction with charged residues, leading to a reduction of protein solubility. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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