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BIOMACROMOLECULES
卷 20, 期 9, 页码 3494-3503出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.9b00773
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- National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research [1709428]
- National Science Foundation [ECCS-1542174]
- Dr. Jang's startup funds by Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1709428] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Protein-rich coacervates are liquid phases separate from the aqueous bulk phase that are used by nature for compartmentalization and more recently have been exploited by engineers for delivery and formulation applications. They also serve as an intermediate phase in an assembly path to more complex structures, such as vesicles. Recombinant fusion protein complexes made from a globular protein fused with a glutamic acid-rich leucine zipper (globule-Z(E)) and an arginine-rich leucine zipper fused with an elastin-like polypeptide (Z(R)-ELP) show different phases from soluble, through an intermediate coacervate phase, and finally to vesicles with increasing temperature of the aqueous solution. We investigated the phase transition kinetics of the fusion protein complexes at different temperatures using dynamic light scattering and microscopy, along with mathematical modeling. We controlled coacervate growth by aging the solution at an intermediate temperature that supports coacervation and confirmed that the size of the coacervate droplets dictates the size of vesicles formed upon further heating. With this understanding of the phase transition, we developed strategies to induce heterogeneity in the organization of globular proteins in the vesicle membrane through simple mixing of coacervates containing two different globular fusion proteins prior to the vesicle transition. This study gives fundamental insights and practical strategies for development of globular protein-rich coacervates and vesicles for drug delivery, microreactors, and protocell applications.
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