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Mechanism of Phase Separation in Aqueous Two-Phase Systems. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232214366. [PMID: 36430844 PMCID: PMC9697872 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232214366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2022] [Revised: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Liquid-liquid phase separation underlies the formation of membrane-less organelles inside living cells. The mechanism of this process can be examined using simple aqueous mixtures of two or more solutes, which are able to phase separate at specific concentration thresholds. This work presents the first experimental evidence that mesoscopic changes precede visually detected macroscopic phase separation in aqueous mixtures of two polymers and a single polymer and salt. Dynamic light scattering (DLS) analysis indicates the formation of mesoscopic polymer agglomerates in these systems. These agglomerates increase in size with increasing polymer concentrations prior to visual phase separation. Such mesoscopic changes are paralleled by changes in water structure as evidenced by Attenuated Total Reflection-Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopic analysis of OH-stretch bands. Through OH-stretch band analysis, we obtain quantitative estimates of the relative fractions of four subpopulations of water structures coexisting in aqueous solutions. These estimates indicate that abrupt changes in hydrogen bond arrangement take place at concentrations below the threshold of macroscopic phase separation. We used these experimental observations to develop a model of phase separation in aqueous media.
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Marchel M, Marrucho IM. Application of Aqueous Biphasic Systems Extraction in Various Biomolecules Separation and Purification: Advancements Brought by Quaternary Systems. SEPARATION & PURIFICATION REVIEWS 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/15422119.2022.2136574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Mateusz Marchel
- Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Process Engineering and Chemical Technology, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland
- Centro de Química Estrutural and Departamento de Engenharia Química, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Centro de Química Estrutural and Departamento de Engenharia Química, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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Titus AR, Madeira PP, Ferreira LA, Belgovskiy AI, Mann EK, Mann JA, Meyer WV, Smart AE, Uversky VN, Zaslavsky BY. Arrangement of Hydrogen Bonds in Aqueous Solutions of Different Globular Proteins. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms231911381. [PMID: 36232682 PMCID: PMC9570128 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231911381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2022] [Revised: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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This work presents the first evidence that dissolved globular proteins change the arrangement of hydrogen bonds in water, with different proteins showing quantitatively different effects. Using ATR-FTIR (attenuated total reflection—Fourier transform infrared) spectroscopic analysis of OH-stretch bands, we obtain quantitative estimates of the relative amounts of the previously reported four subpopulations of water structures coexisting in a variety of aqueous solutions. Where solvatochromic dyes can measure the properties of solutions of non-ionic polymers, the results correlate well with ATR-FTIR measurements. In protein solutions to which solvatochromic dye probes cannot be applied, NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectroscopy was used for the first time to estimate the hydrogen bond donor acidity of water. We found strong correlations between the solvent acidity and arrangement of hydrogen bonds in aqueous solutions for several globular proteins. Even quite similar proteins are found to change water properties in dramatically different ways.
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- Amber R. Titus
- Cleveland Diagnostics, 3615 Superior Ave., Cleveland, OH 44114, USA
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- Centro de Investigacao em Materiais Ceramicos e Compositos, Department of Chemistry, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44242, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Byrd Alzheimer’s Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa, FL 33612, USA
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-813-974-5816
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Zinov’eva IV, Kozhevnikova AV, Milevskii NA, Zakhodyaeva YA, Voshkin AA. Liquid–Liquid Equilibrium And Extraction Capacity of the PPG 425–NaNO3–H2O System. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s0040579522040273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Titus AR, Kooijman EE. Current methods for studying intracellular liquid-liquid phase separation. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 2021; 88:55-73. [PMID: 34862032 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctm.2021.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a ubiquitous process that drives the formation of membrane-less intracellular compartments. This compartmentalization contains vastly different protein/RNA/macromolecule concentrations compared to the surrounding cytosol despite the absence of a lipid boundary. Because of this, LLPS is important for many cellular signaling processes and may play a role in their dysregulation. This chapter highlights recent advances in the understanding of intracellular phase transitions along with current methods used to identify LLPS in vitro and model LLPS in situ.
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- Amber R Titus
- Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH, United States.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH, United States
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Recovery of lactose and proteins from cheese whey with poly(ethylene)glycol/sulfate aqueous two-phase systems. Sep Purif Technol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2020.117686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Linear Relationships between Partition Coefficients of Different Organic Compounds and Proteins in Aqueous Two-Phase Systems of Various Polymer and Ionic Compositions. Polymers (Basel) 2020; 12:polym12071452. [PMID: 32610437 PMCID: PMC7408505 DOI: 10.3390/polym12071452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2020] [Revised: 06/26/2020] [Accepted: 06/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Analysis of the partition coefficients of small organic compounds and proteins in different aqueous two-phase systems under widely varied ionic compositions shows that logarithms of partition coefficients for any three compounds or proteins or two organic compounds and one protein are linearly interrelated, although for protein(s) there are ionic compositions when the linear fit does not hold. It is suggested that the established interrelationships are due to cooperativity of different types of solute-solvent interactions in aqueous media. This assumption is confirmed by analysis of distribution coefficients of various drugs in octanol-buffer systems with varied ionic compositions of the buffer. Analysis of the partition coefficients characterizing distribution of variety of drugs between blood and different tissues of rats in vivo reported in the literature showed that the above assumption is correct and enabled us to identify the tissues with the components of which the drug(s) may engage in presumably direct interactions. It shows that the suggested assumption is valid for even complex biological systems.
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Shaker Shiran H, Baghbanbashi M, Ghazizadeh Ahsaie F, Pazuki G. Study of curcumin partitioning in polymer-salt aqueous two phase systems. J Mol Liq 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2020.112629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Titus AR, Ferreira LA, Belgovskiy AI, Kooijman EE, Mann EK, Mann JA, Meyer WV, Smart AE, Uversky VN, Zaslavsky BY. Interfacial tension and mechanism of liquid-liquid phase separation in aqueous media. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:4574-4580. [PMID: 32048659 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp05810a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The organization of multiple subcellular compartments is controlled by liquid-liquid phase separation. Phase separation of this type occurs with the emergence of interfacial tension. Aqueous two-phase systems formed by two non-ionic polymers can be used to separate and analyze biological macromolecules, cells and viruses. Phase separation in these systems may serve as the simple model of phase separation in cells also occurring in aqueous media. To better understand liquid-liquid phase separation mechanisms, interfacial tension was measured in aqueous two-phase systems formed by dextran and polyethylene glycol and by polyethylene glycol and sodium sulfate in the presence of different additives. Interfacial tension values depend on differences between the solvent properties of the coexisting phases, estimated experimentally by parameters representing dipole-dipole, ion-dipole, ion-ion, and hydrogen bonding interactions. Based on both current and literature data, we propose a mechanism for phase separation in aqueous two-phase systems. This mechanism is based on the fundamental role of intermolecular forces. Although it remains to be confirmed, it is possible that these may underlie all liquid-liquid phase separation processes in biology.
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Affiliation(s)
- Amber R Titus
- Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, OH, Kent, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, OH, Kent, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA and Institute for Biological Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center "Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Pushchino, Moscow region, Russia
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Balaraman HB, Rathnasamy SK. Selective purification of protease from ginger and sodom apple by ultrasound assisted liquid-liquid microextraction using natural deep eutectic solvent. Microchem J 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2019.104132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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