期刊
APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
卷 164, 期 6, 页码 957-967出版社
HUMANA PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1007/s12010-011-9187-1
关键词
N-Alkylpyridinium chloride; N-Alkyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium chloride; Refolding; Aggregation; Protein stability; Ionic liquids
资金
- MEXT of Japan
An important property of ionic liquids consisting of cations and anions is that the chemical structures can be easily tuned. To expand the repertoire of effective ionic liquid-based refolding additives, we focused on this tunable property and investigated the effects of new candidates such as N-alkylpyridinium chlorides and N-alkyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium chlorides on protein refolding. Denatured lysozyme (30 mg/mL) was used as a model protein and refolded by 30-fold dilution with various refolding buffers containing different ionic liquids consisting of a systematic variety of alkyl chains. Compared with the refolding yield without additives (lower than 10%), less hydrophobic ionic liquids such as N-ethyl, N-butyl and N-hexylpyridinium chlorides, and N-butyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium chloride were effective in enhancing the refolding yields (46-69%), because they primarily suppressed aggregation because of their chaotropic properties. N-alkylpyridinium cations were more hydrophobic than N-alkyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium cations according to the calculated log P values and prevented aggregation at lower concentrations because of their hydrophobicity. The results provide a range of new effective ionic liquid-based additives for higher protein refolding yields and the knowledge of the effect of chemical structures of additives on protein refolding.
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