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A change in the aggregation pathway of bovine serum albumin in the presence of arginine and its derivatives.

ABSTRACT: Chemical chaperones including arginine and its derivatives are widely used by biochemists working on the design of agents, which are able to efficiently suppress protein aggregation. To elucidate the mechanisms of anti-aggregation activity of chemical chaperones, methods based on registration of the increment in light scattering intensity must be supplemented with methods for direct detection of the portion of aggregated protein (?agg). For this purpose asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation was used in the present work. It was shown that heat-induced aggregation of bovine serum albumin (BSA) followed the kinetics of the reaction of the second order (0.1?M sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7.0, 70?°C). It was proposed to use R h vs ?agg plots to characterize the aggregation pathway (R h is the hydrodynamic radius of the protein aggregates, which was calculated from the dynamic light scattering data). The changes in the shape of R h vs ?agg plots in the presence of arginine, arginine amide and arginine ethyl ester are indicative of the changes in the aggregation pathway of BSA aggregation. A conclusion has been made that larger aggregates are formed in the presence of arginine hydrochloride and its derivatives.

SUBMITTER: Borzova VA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5479853 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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A change in the aggregation pathway of bovine serum albumin in the presence of arginine and its derivatives.

Borzova Vera A VA Markossian Kira A KA Kleymenov Sergey Yu SY Kurganov Boris I BI

Scientific reports 20170621 1

Chemical chaperones including arginine and its derivatives are widely used by biochemists working on the design of agents, which are able to efficiently suppress protein aggregation. To elucidate the mechanisms of anti-aggregation activity of chemical chaperones, methods based on registration of the increment in light scattering intensity must be supplemented with methods for direct detection of the portion of aggregated protein (γ<sub>agg</sub>). For this purpose asymmetric flow field-flow frac ...[more]

PMID: 28638090

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A change in the aggregation pathway of bovine serum albumin in the presence of arginine and its derivatives.

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A change in the aggregation pathway of bovine serum albumin in the presence of arginine and its derivatives.

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