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BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 107, 期 3, 页码 289-298出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2003.09.012
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alcohols; protein-protein interactions; osmotic second virial coefficient; hydrophobic interactions; potential of mean force
Alcohols have been widely used as protein denaturants, precipitants and crystallization reagents. We have studied the effect of alcohols on aqueous hen-egg lysozyme self-interactions by measuring the osmotic second virial coefficient (B-22) using static light scattering. Addition of alcohols increases B-22, indicating stronger protein-protein repulsion or weaker attraction. For the monohydric alcohols used in this study (methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, n-butanol, iso-butanol and trifluoroethanol), B22 for lysozyme reaches a common plateau at approximately 5% (v/v) alcohol, while glycerol increases B-22 more than monohydric alcohols. For a 0.05 M NaCl hen-egg lysozyme solution at pH 7, B-22 increases from 2.4 x 10(-4) to 4.7 x 10(-4) ml Mol/g(2) upon addition of monohydric alcohols and to 5.8 x 10(-4) ml mol/ g(2) upon addition of glycerol. We describe the alcohol effect using a simple model that supplements the DLVO theory with an additional alcohol-dependent term representing orientation-averaged hydrophobic interactions. In this model, the increased lysozyme repulsive forces in the presence of monohydric alcohols are interpreted in terms of adsorption of alcohol molecules on hydrophobic sites on the protein surface. This adsorption reduces attractive hydrophobic protein-protein interactions. A thicker lysozyme hydration layer in aqueous glycerol solution can explain the glycerol-increased lysozyme-lysozyme repulsion. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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