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The effect of dimethyl sulfoxide on the lysozyme unfolding kinetics, thermodynamics, and mechanism

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dc.contributor.author Magsumov T.
dc.contributor.author Fatkhutdinova A.
dc.contributor.author Mukhametzyanov T.
dc.contributor.author Sedov I.
dc.date.accessioned 2020-01-15T22:10:12Z
dc.date.available 2020-01-15T22:10:12Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/156827
dc.description.abstract © 2019 by the authors. The thermal stability of proteins in the presence of organic solvents and the search for ways to increase this stability are important topics in industrial biocatalysis and protein engineering. The denaturation of hen egg-white lysozyme in mixtures of water with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) with a broad range of compositions was studied using a combination of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), circular dichroism (CD), and spectrofluorimetry techniques. In this study, for the first time, the kinetics of unfolding of lysozyme in DMSO-water mixtures was characterized. In the presence of DMSO, a sharp decrease in near-UV CD and an increase in the fluorescence signal were observed at lower temperatures than the DSC denaturation peak. It was found that differences in the temperatures of the CD and DSC signal changes increase as the content of DMSO increases. Changes in CD and fluorescence are triggered by a break of the tertiary contacts, leading to an intermediate state, while the DSC peak corresponds to a subsequent complete loss of the native structure. In this way, the commonly used two-state model was proven to be unsuitable to describe the unfolding of lysozyme in the presence of DMSO. In kinetic studies, it was found that even high concentrations of DMSO do not drastically change the activation energy of the initial stage of unfolding associated with a disruption of the tertiary structure, while the enthalpy of denaturation shows a significant dependence on DMSO content. This observation suggests that the structure of the transition state upon unfolding remains similar to the structure of the native state.
dc.subject Circular dichroism
dc.subject Differential scanning calorimetry
dc.subject Lysozyme
dc.subject Protein denaturation
dc.subject Protein unfolding
dc.subject Unfolding kinetics
dc.title The effect of dimethyl sulfoxide on the lysozyme unfolding kinetics, thermodynamics, and mechanism
dc.type Article
dc.relation.ispartofseries-issue 10
dc.relation.ispartofseries-volume 9
dc.collection Публикации сотрудников КФУ
dc.source.id SCOPUS-2019-9-10-SID85072769337


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