期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
卷 53, 期 -, 页码 42-53出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2012.10.030
关键词
Bovine serum albumin; Optical spectroscopy; Protein aggregation; Dynamic light scattering
资金
- Research Centers in Minority Institutions of the National Center for Research Resources, NIH [2G12RR013646-11]
The manuscript describes the study of the oligomerization process of bovine serum albumin (BSA) in two different structural monomeric forms: the extended-form (E) at pH 2.0 and the basic-form (B) at pH 9.0. The study was conducted at low protein concentration (1 mg/ml) and relatively short incubation time (maximum 56 days) in order to investigate early oligomerization events rather than the formation of mature fibrils. The comparison between the two isoforms show that oligomers form much faster (similar to 6 days) in the E-form than in the B-form where formation of oligomers requires similar to 4 weeks. The oligomers appear to be limited to a maximum of tetramers with size <30 nm. Hydrophobic interactions from exposed neutral amino acid residues in the elongated E-form are the likely cause for the quick formation of aggregates at acidic pH. We used an array of biophysical techniques for the study and determined that oligomerization occurs without further large changes in the secondary structure of the monomers. Under the conditions adopted in this study, aggregation does not seem to exceed the formation of tetramers, even though a very small amount of much larger aggregates seem to form. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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