EFFECT OF SURFACTANTS ON THE PREVENTION OF PROTEIN AGGREGATION DURING UNFOLDING AND REFOLDING PROCESSES-COMPARISON WITH MOLECULAR CHAPERONE α -CRYSTALLIN
作者:
J. Bhattacharyya,
K. P. Das,
期刊:
Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology
(Taylor Available online 1999)
卷期:
Volume 20,
issue 4
页码: 1163-1178
ISSN:0193-2691
年代: 1999
DOI:10.1080/01932699908943842
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Molecular chaperones prevent protein aggregation. Understanding of their mechanism of actions remains obscured by the complexity of their three dimensional structure. Surfactants are much simpler molecules and can also inhibit protein aggregation. In the present work, prevention of aggregation by ionic and non-ionic surfactants during thermal and non-thermal unfolding and refolding of a number of proteins are studied. Attempts have been made to compare the dose dependence of surfactants with that of molecular chaperone a-crystallin in preventing various protein aggregations. Conformational features of proteins whose aggregation have been prevented by surfactants and a-crystallin are compared with each other. It has been found that in terms of conformation of the substrate protein, chaperones restrict the bound protein in a conformation not far from that of the native protein, whereas ionic surfactants may lead to considerably different substrate protein conformation. Non-ionic surfactants, though slow in solubilising protein aggregates, do not cause great changes in protein conformation.
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