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A Long Journey into the Investigation of the Structure–Dynamics–Function Paradigm in Proteins through the Activities of the Palermo Biophysics Group. BIOPHYSICA 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/biophysica2040040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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An overview of the biophysics activity at the Department of Physics and Chemistry Emilio Segrè of the University of Palermo is given. For forty years, the focus of the research has been on the protein structure–dynamics–function paradigm, with the aim of understanding the molecular basis of the relevant mechanisms and the key role of solvent. At least three research lines are identified; the main results obtained in collaboration with other groups in Italy and abroad are presented. This review is dedicated to the memory of Professors Massimo Ugo Palma, Maria Beatrice Palma Vittorelli, and Lorenzo Cordone, which were the founders of the Palermo School of Biophysics. We all have been, directly or indirectly, their pupils; we miss their enthusiasm for scientific research, their deep physical insights, their suggestions, their strict but always constructive criticisms, and, most of all, their friendship. This paper is dedicated also to the memory of Prof. Hans Frauenfelder, whose pioneering works on nonexponential rebinding kinetics, protein substates, and energy landscape have inspired a large part of our work in the field of protein dynamics.
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Bogdanova E, Millqvist Fureby A, Kocherbitov V. Hydration enthalpies of amorphous sucrose, trehalose and maltodextrins and their relationship with heat capacities. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:14433-14448. [PMID: 34180926 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp00779c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The mechanisms of glass transitions and the behavior of small solute molecules in a glassy matrix are some of the most important topics of modern thermodynamics. Water plays an important role in the physical and chemical stability of lyophilized biologics formulations, in which glassy carbohydrates act as cryoprotectants and stabilizers. In this study, sorption calorimetry was used for simultaneous measurements of water activity and the enthalpy of water sorption by amorphous sucrose, trehalose and maltodextrins. Moreover, the heat capacity of these carbohydrates in mixtures with water was measured by DSC in a broad range of water contents. The hydration enthalpies of glassy sucrose, trehalose and maltodextrins are exothermic, and the enthalpy change of water-induced isothermal glass transitions is higher for small molecules. The partial molar enthalpy of mixing of water in slow experiments is about -18 kJ mol-1, but less exothermic in the case of small molecules at fast hydration scan rates. By measuring the heat capacities of disaccharides and maltodextrins as a function of water content, we separated the contributions of carbohydrates and water to the total heat capacities of the mixtures. The combination of these data allowed testing of thermodynamic models describing the hydration-induced glass transitions. The heat capacity changes calculated by the fitting of the hydration enthalpy data for disaccharides are in good agreement with the heat capacity data obtained by DSC, while for maltodextrins, the effect of sub-Tg transitions should be taken into account. Combining the data obtained by different techniques, we found a distinct difference in the behavior of water in glassy polymers compared to that in glassy disaccharides. By understanding the behavior of water in glassy carbohydrates, these results can be used to improve the design of freeze-dried formulations of proteins and probiotics.
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- Ekaterina Bogdanova
- Biomedical Science, Malmö University, SE-20506, Malmö, Sweden. and Biofilms research center for Biointerfaces, Malmö, Sweden
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- Biomedical Science, Malmö University, SE-20506, Malmö, Sweden. and Biofilms research center for Biointerfaces, Malmö, Sweden
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The
two sugar molecules sucrose and trehalose are both considered
as stabilizing molecules for the purpose of preserving biological
materials during, for example, lyophilization or cryo-preservation.
Although these molecules share a similar molecular structure, there
are several important differences in their properties when they interact
with water, such as differences in solubility, viscosity, and glass
transition temperature. In general, trehalose has been shown to be
more efficient than other sugar molecules in preserving different
biological molecules against stress, and thus by investigating how
these two disaccharides differ in their water interaction, it is possible
to further understand what makes trehalose special in its stabilizing
properties. For this purpose, the structure of aqueous solutions of
these disaccharides was studied by using neutron and X-ray diffraction
in combination with empirical potential structure refinement (EPSR)
modeling. The results show that there are surprisingly few differences
in the overall structure of the solutions, although there are indications
for that trehalose perturbs the water structure slightly more than
sucrose.
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- Christoffer Olsson
- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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Song JG, Lee SH, Han HK. Biophysical evaluation of aminoclay as an effective protectant for protein stabilization during freeze-drying and storage. Int J Nanomedicine 2016; 11:6609-6619. [PMID: 28003745 PMCID: PMC5161340 DOI: 10.2147/ijn.s122726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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This study aimed to evaluate aminoclay (3-aminopropyl-functionalized magnesium phyllosilicate) as an effective protectant for the stabilization of protein formulation in freeze-drying. Bovine serum albumin (BSA), as a model protein, was freeze-dried with aminoclay at various concentrations, and the effects of aminoclay on the structural stability of proteins were compared with those of the conventional stabilizers. The structural characteristics of the protein were determined by size exclusion chromatography (SEC), circular dichroism (CD), and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Furthermore, physicochemical and morphological characteristics were examined by X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). XRPD and DSC patterns indicated that the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the amorphous formulation of aminoclay mixed with proteins was gradually elevated as the concentration of aminoclay increased. FTIR and CD spectral analysis suggested that the protein structure was well maintained with aminoclay during the freeze-drying process and 3 months of storage at 4°C and 40°C. Furthermore, aminoclay conferred the greatest protection against aggregation and retained the monomer content of BSA even at a high temperature. The morphological characteristics of lyophilized proteins were also well conserved during the storage with aminoclay. These results suggested that aminoclay may be useful as an alternative stabilizer for maintaining the structural stability of protein formulations.
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- Jae Geun Song
- College of Pharmacy, Dongguk University, Goyang, South Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Dongguk University, Goyang, South Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Dongguk University, Goyang, South Korea
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Hill JJ, Shalaev EY, Zografi G. The importance of individual protein molecule dynamics in developing and assessing solid state protein preparations. J Pharm Sci 2014; 103:2605-2614. [PMID: 24867196 DOI: 10.1002/jps.24021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2014] [Revised: 05/05/2014] [Accepted: 05/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Processing protein solutions into the solid state is a common approach for generating stable amorphous protein mixtures that are suitable for long-term storage. Great care is typically given to protecting the protein native structure during the various drying steps that render it into the amorphous solid state. However, many studies illustrate that chemical and physical degradations still occur in spite of this amorphous material having good glassy properties and it being stored at temperatures below its glass transition temperature (Tg). Because of these persistent issues and recent biophysical studies that have refined the debate ascribing meaning to the molecular dynamical transition temperature and Tg of protein molecules, we provide an updated discussion on the impact of assessing and managing localized, individual protein molecule nondiffusive motions in the context of proteins being prepared into bulk amorphous mixtures. Our aim is to bridge the pharmaceutical studies addressing bulk amorphous preparations and their glassy behavior, with the biophysical studies historically focused on the nondiffusive internal protein dynamics and a protein's activity, along with their combined efforts in assessing the impact of solvent hydrogen-bonding networks on local stability. We also provide recommendations for future research efforts in solid-state formulation approaches.
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- John J Hill
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2222
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Ivanova NV, Kuzmina ML. Protocols for dry DNA storage and shipment at room temperature. Mol Ecol Resour 2013; 13:890-8. [PMID: 23789643 PMCID: PMC3910151 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2013] [Revised: 06/04/2013] [Accepted: 06/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The globalization of DNA barcoding will require core analytical facilities to develop cost-effective, efficient protocols for the shipment and archival storage of DNA extracts and PCR products. We evaluated three dry-state DNA stabilization systems: commercial Biomatrica(®) DNAstable(®) plates, home-made trehalose and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) plates on 96-well panels of insect DNA stored at 56 °C and at room temperature. Controls included unprotected samples that were stored dry at room temperature and at 56 °C, and diluted samples held at 4 °C and at -20 °C. PCR and selective sequencing were performed over a 4-year interval to test the condition of DNA extracts. Biomatrica(®) provided better protection of DNA at 56 °C and at room temperature than trehalose and PVA, especially for diluted samples. PVA was the second best protectant after Biomatrica(®) at room temperature, whereas trehalose was the second best protectant at 56 °C. In spite of lower PCR success, the DNA stored at -20 °C yielded longer sequence reads and stronger signal, indicating that temperature is a crucial factor for DNA quality which has to be considered especially for long-term storage. Although it is premature to advocate a transition to DNA storage at room temperature, dry storage provides an additional layer of security for frozen samples, protecting them from degradation in the event of freezer failure. All three forms of DNA preservation enable shipment of dry DNA and PCR products between barcoding facilities.
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- Natalia V Ivanova
- Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada.
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Panzica M, Emanuele A, Cordone L. Thermal Aggregation of Bovine Serum Albumin in Trehalose and Sucrose Aqueous Solutions. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:11829-36. [DOI: 10.1021/jp3054197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Massimo Panzica
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 36, I-90123 Palermo,
Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 36, I-90123 Palermo,
Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 36, I-90123 Palermo,
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Choi HJ, Yoo DG, Bondy BJ, Quan FS, Compans RW, Kang SM, Prausnitz MR. Stability of influenza vaccine coated onto microneedles. Biomaterials 2012; 33:3756-69. [PMID: 22361098 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.01.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2012] [Accepted: 01/29/2012] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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A microneedle patch coated with vaccine simplifies vaccination by using a patch-based delivery method and targets vaccination to the skin for superior immunogenicity compared to intramuscular injection. Previous studies of microneedles have demonstrated effective vaccination using freshly prepared microneedles, but the issue of long-term vaccine stability has received only limited attention. Here, we studied the long-term stability of microneedles coated with whole inactivated influenza vaccine guided by the hypothesis that crystallization and phase separation of the microneedle coating matrix damages influenza vaccine coated onto microneedles. In vitro studies showed that the vaccine lost stability as measured by hemagglutination activity in proportion to the degree of coating matrix crystallization and phase separation. Transmission electron microscopy similarly showed damaged morphology of the inactivated virus vaccine associated with crystallization. In vivo assessment of immune response and protective efficacy in mice further showed reduced vaccine immunogenicity after influenza vaccination using microneedles with crystallized or phase-separated coatings. This work shows that crystallization and phase separation of the dried coating matrix are important factors affecting long-term stability of influenza vaccine-coated microneedles.
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- Hyo-Jick Choi
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0100, USA
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Longo A, Giuffrida S, Cottone G, Cordone L. Myoglobin embedded in saccharide amorphous matrices: water-dependent domains evidenced by small angle X-ray scattering. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2010; 12:6852-8. [PMID: 20463993 DOI: 10.1039/b926977k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We report Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) measurements performed on samples of carboxy-myoglobin (MbCO) embedded in low-water trehalose glasses. Results showed that, in such samples, "low-protein" trehalose-water domains are present, surrounded by a protein-trehalose-water background; such finding is supported by Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) measurements. These domains, which do not appear in the absence of the protein and in analogous sucrose systems, preferentially incorporate the incoming water at the onset of rehydration, and disappear following large hydration. This observation suggests that, in organisms under anhydrobiosis, analogous domains could play a buffering role against the daily variations of the atmospheric moisture. The reported results are rationalized by assuming sizably different protein-matrix coupling in trehalose with respect to sucrose, analogous to the one suggested for the photosynthetic reaction centre from Rhodobacter sphaeroides (F. Francia et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 10240-10246).
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- Alessandro Longo
- Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati ISMN-CNR, Via Ugo La Malfa 153, I-90146, Palermo
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Guo F, Friedman JM. Charge density-dependent modifications of hydration shell waters by Hofmeister ions. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:11010-8. [PMID: 19603752 PMCID: PMC2745343 DOI: 10.1021/ja902240j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Gadolinium (Gd(3+)) vibronic sideband luminescence spectroscopy (GVSBLS) is used to probe, as a function of added Hofmeister series salts, changes in the OH stretching frequency derived from first-shell waters of aqueous Gd(3+) and of Gd(3+) coordinated to three different types of molecules: (i) a chelate (EDTA), (ii) structured peptides (mSE3/SE2) of the lanthanide-binding tags (LBTs) family with a single high-affinity binding site, and (iii) a calcium-binding protein (calmodulin) with four binding sites. The vibronic sideband (VSB) corresponding to the OH stretching mode of waters coordinated to Gd(3+), whose frequency is inversely correlated with the strength of the hydrogen bonding to neighboring waters, exhibits an increase in frequency when Gd(3+) becomes coordinated to either EDTA, calmodulin, or mSE3 peptide. In all of these cases, the addition of cation chloride or acetate salts to the solution increases the frequency of the vibronic band originating from the OH stretching mode of the coordinated waters in a cation- and concentration-dependent fashion. The cation dependence of the frequency increase scales with charge density of the cations, giving rise to an ordering consistent with the Hofmeister ordering. On the other hand, water Raman spectroscopy shows no significant change upon addition of these salts. Additionally, it is shown that the cation effect is modulated by the specific anion used. The results indicate a mechanism of action for Hofmeister series ions in which hydrogen bonding among hydration shell waters is modulated by several factors. High charge density cations sequester waters in a configuration that precludes strong hydrogen bonding to neighboring waters. Under such conditions, anion effects emerge as anions compete for hydrogen-bonding sites with the remaining free waters on the surface of the hydration shell. The magnitude of the anion effect is both cation and Gd(3+)-binding site specific.
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- Feng Guo
- Department of Biophysics and Physiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave., Bronx, New York, U.S.A. 10461
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- Department of Biophysics and Physiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave., Bronx, New York, U.S.A. 10461
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Cordone L, Cottone G, Giuffrida S, Librizzi F. Thermal evolution of the CO stretching band in carboxy-myoglobin in the light of neutron scattering and molecular dynamics simulations. Chem Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2007.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Samuni U, Dantsker D, Roche C, Friedman JM. Ligand recombination and a hierarchy of solvent slaved dynamics: the origin of kinetic phases in hemeproteins. Gene 2007; 398:234-48. [PMID: 17570619 PMCID: PMC1975397 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.04.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Ligand recombination studies play a central role both for characterizing different hemeproteins and their conformational states but also for probing fundamental biophysical processes. Consequently, there is great importance to providing a foundation from which one can understand the physical processes that give rise to and modulate the large range of kinetic patterns associated with ligand recombination in myoglobins and hemoglobins. In this work, an overview of cryogenic and solution phase recombination phenomena for COMb is first reviewed and then a new paradigm is presented for analyzing the temperature and viscosity dependent features of kinetic traces in terms of multiple phases that reflect which tier(s) of solvent slaved protein dynamics is (are) operative on the photoproduct population during the time course of the measurement. This approach allows for facile inclusion of both ligand diffusion among accessible cavities and conformational relaxation effects. The concepts are illustrated using kinetic traces and MEM populations derived from the CO recombination process for wild type and mutant myoglobins either in sol-gel matrices bathed in glycerol or in trehalose-derived glassy matrices.
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- Uri Samuni
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Collini M, D'Alfonso L, Baldini G. Trehalose-induced Changes of the Ethidium Hydration Shell Detected by Time-resolved Fluorescence ¶. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2003)0770376tcoteh2.0.co2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Cottone G. A comparative study of carboxy myoglobin in saccharide-water systems by molecular dynamics simulation. J Phys Chem B 2007; 111:3563-9. [PMID: 17388507 DOI: 10.1021/jp0677288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Results from room-temperature molecular dynamics simulation on a system containing carboxy-myoglobin, water, and maltose molecules are reported. Protein atomic fluctuations, protein-solvent and solvent-solvent hydrogen bonding have been analyzed and compared to the ones in trehalose-water and sucrose-water systems (Proteins 2005, 59, 291-302). Results help in rationalizing, at a molecular level, the effects of homologues disaccharides on protein structure/dynamics experimentally observed. Furthermore, the effectiveness of disaccharides in bioprotection in terms of peculiar protein-matrix coupling is also discussed.
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- Grazia Cottone
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche ed Astronomiche, Università Degli Studi di Palermo and CNISM, Via Archirafi 36, I-90123 Palermo, Italy.
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Navati MS, Friedman JM. Sugar-derived glasses support thermal and photo-initiated electron transfer processes over macroscopic distances. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:36021-8. [PMID: 17005567 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m606866200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Trehalose-derived glasses are shown to support long range electron transfer reactions between spatially well separated donors and protein acceptors. The results indicate that these matrices can be used not only to greatly stabilize protein structures but also to facilitate both thermal and photo-initiated hemeprotein reduction over large macroscopic distances. To date the promise of exciting new protein-based technologies that can harness the exceptional tunability of protein functionality has been significantly thwarted by both intrinsic instability and stringent solvent/environment requirements for the expression of functional properties. The presented results raise the prospect of overcoming these limitations with respect to incorporating redox active proteins into solid state devices such as tunable batteries, switches, and solar cells. The findings also have implications for formulations intended to enhance long term storage of biomaterials, new protein-based synthetic strategies, and biophysical studies of functional intermediates trapped under nonequilibrium conditions. In addition, the study shows that certain sugars such as glucose or tagatose, when added to redox-inactive glassy matrices, can be used as a source of thermal electrons that can be harvested by suitable redox active proteins, raising the prospect of using common sugars as an electron source in solid state thermal fuel cells.
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- Mahantesh S Navati
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Giuffrida S, Cottone G, Cordone L. Role of solvent on protein-matrix coupling in MbCO embedded in water-saccharide systems: a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy study. Biophys J 2006; 91:968-80. [PMID: 16714349 PMCID: PMC1563748 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.081927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Embedding protein in sugar systems of low water content enables one to investigate the protein dynamic-structure function in matrixes whose rigidity is modulated by varying the content of residual water. Accordingly, studying the dynamics and structure thermal evolution of a protein in sugar systems of different hydration constitutes a tool for disentangling solvent rigidity from temperature effects. Furthermore, studies performed using different sugars may give information on how the detailed composition of the surrounding solvent affects the internal protein dynamics and structural evolution. In this work, we compare Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy measurements (300-20 K) on MbCO embedded in trehalose, sucrose, maltose, raffinose, and glucose matrixes of different water content. At all the water contents investigated, the protein-solvent coupling was tighter in trehalose than in the other sugars, thus suggesting a molecular basis for the trehalose peculiarity. These results are in line with the observation that protein-matrix phase separation takes place in lysozyme-lactose, whereas it is absent in lysozyme-trehalose systems; indeed, these behaviors may respectively be due to the lack or presence of suitable water-mediated hydrogen-bond networks, which match the protein surface to the surroundings. The above processes might be at the basis of pattern recognition in crowded living systems; indeed, hydration shells structural and dynamic matching is first needed for successful come together of interacting biomolecules.
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- Sergio Giuffrida
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche ed Astronomiche, Università di Palermo and CNISM, I-90123 Palermo, Italy
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Hill JJ, Shalaev EY, Zografi G. Thermodynamic and dynamic factors involved in the stability of native protein structure in amorphous solids in relation to levels of hydration. J Pharm Sci 2005; 94:1636-67. [PMID: 15965985 DOI: 10.1002/jps.20333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The internal, dynamical fluctuations of protein molecules exhibit many of the features typical of polymeric and bulk small molecule glass forming systems. The response of a protein's internal molecular mobility to temperature changes is similar to that of other amorphous systems, in that different types of motions freeze out at different temperatures, suggesting they exhibit the alpha-beta-modes of motion typical of polymeric glass formers. These modes of motion are attributed to the dynamic regimes that afford proteins the flexibility for function but that also develop into the large-scale collective motions that lead to unfolding. The protein dynamical transition, T(d), which has the same meaning as the T(g) value of other amorphous systems, is attributed to the temperature where protein activity is lost and the unfolding process is inhibited. This review describes how modulation of T(d) by hydration and lyoprotectants can determine the stability of protein molecules that have been processed as bulk, amorphous materials. It also examines the thermodynamic, dynamic, and molecular factors involved in stabilizing folded proteins, and the effects typical pharmaceutical processes can have on native protein structure in going from the solution state to the solid state.
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- John J Hill
- ICOS Corporation, 22021 20th Avenue SE, Bothell, WA 98021, USA.
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Cordone L, Cottone G, Giuffrida S, Palazzo G, Venturoli G, Viappiani C. Internal dynamics and protein–matrix coupling in trehalose-coated proteins. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2005; 1749:252-81. [PMID: 15886079 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2005.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2004] [Revised: 03/04/2005] [Accepted: 03/04/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We review recent studies on the role played by non-liquid, water-containing matrices on the dynamics and structure of embedded proteins. Two proteins were studied, in water-trehalose matrices: a water-soluble protein (carboxy derivative of horse heart myoglobin) and a membrane protein (reaction centre from Rhodobacter sphaeroides). Several experimental techniques were used: Mossbauer spectroscopy, elastic neutron scattering, FTIR spectroscopy, CO recombination after flash photolysis in carboxy-myoglobin, kinetic optical absorption spectroscopy following pulsed and continuous photoexcitation in Q(B) containing or Q(B) deprived reaction centre from R. sphaeroides. Experimental results, together with the outcome of molecular dynamics simulations, concurred to give a picture of how water-containing matrices control the internal dynamics of the embedded proteins. This occurs, in particular, via the formation of hydrogen bond networks that anchor the protein surface to the surrounding matrix, whose stiffness increases by lowering the sample water content. In the conclusion section, we also briefly speculate on how the protein-matrix interactions observed in our samples may shed light on the protein-solvent coupling also in liquid aqueous solutions.
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- Lorenzo Cordone
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche ed Astronomiche, Università di Palermo, Italy.
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Giuffrida S, Cottone G, Cordone L. Structure−Dynamics Coupling between Protein and External Matrix in Sucrose-Coated and in Trehalose-Coated MbCO: An FTIR Study. J Phys Chem B 2004. [DOI: 10.1021/jp047894k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Sergio Giuffrida
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche ed Astronomiche, Università di Palermo, Via Archirafi 36 I-90123 Palermo, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche ed Astronomiche, Università di Palermo, Via Archirafi 36 I-90123 Palermo, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche ed Astronomiche, Università di Palermo, Via Archirafi 36 I-90123 Palermo, Italy
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Aksan A, Toner M. Isothermal desiccation and vitrification kinetics of trehalose-dextran solutions. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2004; 20:5521-9. [PMID: 15986695 DOI: 10.1021/la0355186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The promise of dried state preservation is based on the hypothesis that lowering molecular mobility to halt chemical reaction and deterioration rates is the primary factor for the long-term stability of the dried specimen. In this research, the feasibility of utilizing isothermal, isobaric vitrification as an economical alternative to the preservation technologies currently in use (mainly, cryopreservation and lyophilization) is explored. Desiccation and vitrification kinetics of model trehalose and trehalose-dextran systems were examined using gravimetric analysis, modulated differential scanning calorimetry, and X-ray crystallography. It was shown that vitrification can be achieved isothermally without crystallization and that vitrification of trehalose solutions can be significantly accelerated by incorporating high-molecular-weight dextrans. Additionally, it was shown that, for the same water content, the glass transition temperature of the trehalose-dextran solution is significantly higher than that of the binary trehalose solution, making the glassy state achievable and storage feasible.
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- Alptekin Aksan
- Center for Engineering in Medicine and Department of Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospital for Children, 51 Blossom Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
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Giuffrida S, Cottone G, Librizzi F, Cordone L. Coupling between the Thermal Evolution of the Heme Pocket and the External Matrix Structure inTrehalose CoatedCarboxymyoglobin. J Phys Chem B 2003. [DOI: 10.1021/jp036194x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Wright WW, Guffanti GT, Vanderkooi JM. Protein in sugar films and in glycerol/water as examined by infrared spectroscopy and by the fluorescence and phosphorescence of tryptophan. Biophys J 2003; 85:1980-95. [PMID: 12944311 PMCID: PMC1303370 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74626-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Sugars are known to stabilize proteins. This study addresses questions of the nature of sugar and proteins incorporated in solid sugar films. Infrared (IR) and Raman spectroscopy was used to examine trehalose and sucrose films and glycerol/water solvent. Proteins and indole-containing compounds that are imbedded in the sugar films were studied by IR and optical (absorption, fluorescence, and phosphorescence) spectroscopy. Water is able to move in the sugar films in the temperature range of 20-300 K as suggested by IR absorption bands of HOH bending and OH stretching modes that shift continuously with temperature. In glycerol/water these bands reflect the glass transition at approximately 160 K. The fluorescence of N-acetyl-L-tryptophanamide and tryptophan of melittin, Ca-free parvalbumin, and staphylococcal nuclease in dry trehalose/sucrose films remains broad and red-shifted over a temperature excursion of 20-300 K. In contrast, the fluorescence of these compounds in glycerol/water solvent shift to the blue as temperature decreases. The fluorescence of the buried tryptophan in Ca-bound parvalbumin in either sugar film or glycerol/water remains blue-shifted and has vibronic resolution over the entire temperature range. The red shift for fluorescence of indole groups exposed to solvent in the sugars is consistent with the motion of water molecules around the excited-state molecule that occurs even at low temperature, although the possibility of static complex formation between the excited-state molecule and water or other factors is discussed. The phosphorescence yield for protein and model indole compounds is sensitive to the matrix glass transition. Phosphorescence emission spectra are resolved and shift little in different solvents or temperature, as predicted by the small dipole moment of the excited triplet state molecule. The conclusion is that the sugar film maintains the environment present at the glass formation temperature for surface Trp and amide groups over a wide temperature excursion. In glycerol/water these groups reflect local changes in the environment as temperature changes.
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- Wayne W Wright
- Johnson Research Foundation, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Collini M, D'Alfonso L, Baldini G. Trehalose-induced changes of the ethidium hydration shell detected by time-resolved fluorescence. Photochem Photobiol 2003; 77:376-82. [PMID: 12733649 DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2003)077<0376:tcoteh>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The fluorescence lifetime of ethidium bromide (EB), a widely used fluorescent dye, has been monitored in water solution versus trehalose concentration in order to learn how the presence of the disaccharide modifies the hydration of EB, which is used in this study as a model probe. The interest in trehalose, a naturally occurring bioprotector (osmolyte), stems from its ability to stabilize biomolecules under stress situations. The observed effects of trehalose on EB fluorescence properties have been compared with those induced by sucrose and glucose. Lifetime measurements have been performed by frequency domain fluorometry (2-40 MHz), and from the analysis of their changes versus sugar concentration, the EB-sugar interaction parameters have been obtained. The effect of trehalose on the EB decay in glasses has also been studied both by exploring the heterogeneity of lifetime decay and by single-molecule imaging. Trehalose appears to be more efficient in changing the EB fluorescence parameters, such as the emission lifetime, and it leads to a degree of heterogeneity higher than that induced by the other sugars. When EB is embedded in trehalose glasses, the heterogeneity of the emission and of the bleaching time is further enhanced.
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- Maddalena Collini
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
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Mei E, Tang J, Vanderkooi JM, Hochstrasser RM. Motions of single molecules and proteins in trehalose glass. J Am Chem Soc 2003; 125:2730-5. [PMID: 12603162 DOI: 10.1021/ja021197t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The fluorescence intensity-time records of individual metal-free porphyrin cytochrome-c and Zn porphyrin cytochrome-c molecules whose translational motions are restricted by encapsulation in trehalose are examined by single-molecule spectroscopy by means of a two-channel confocal microscope that records transient fluorescence signals in two orthogonal polarization directions. Large angular motions often occur on time scales ranging to many seconds. Measurements of the photobleaching time distributions indicate that the trehalose glass restricts the accessibility of the fluorescent molecules to oxygen.
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- Erwen Mei
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Ray A, Friedman BA, Friedman JM. Trehalose glass-facilitated thermal reduction of metmyoglobin and methemoglobin. J Am Chem Soc 2002; 124:7270-1. [PMID: 12071726 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The reduction of ferric derivatives of hemeproteins in solution typically requires moderate to strong reducing agents. Reducing sugars are not adequate to reduce ferric myoglobins or hemoglobins under solution conditions favorable to protein stability. We find that embedding aquo-met derivatives of horse myoglobin and human adult hemoglobin in a glucose-doped glassy matrix derived from trehalose facilitates an efficient thermally initiated reduction that yields a five-coordinate high-spin ferrous heme. The trehalose glass plays a central role by stabilizing the reduction-prone bis-histidine heme (hemichrome) intermediate under the high-temperature conditions that favor the open reducing form of glucose. Due to glass-imposed limitations on conformational reorganization, this process has clear applications in biophysics where it can be used to generate nonequilibrium ferrous derivatives having the initial conformation of the aquo-met derivative. Since the glassy matrix can be redissolved to release the embedded protein, this technique is not only a basis for a relatively benign method of reducing hemoglobin-based blood substitutes that have undergone autoxidation during storage but may also be a way to reactivate stored proteins that have undergone oxidation.
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- Anandhi Ray
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Bizzarri AR, Cannistraro S. Molecular Dynamics of Water at the Protein−Solvent Interface. J Phys Chem B 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp020100m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 440] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Anna Rita Bizzarri
- Unita' INFM, Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Universita’ della Tuscia, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy
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- Unita' INFM, Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Universita’ della Tuscia, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy
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Prabhu NV, Dalosto SD, Sharp KA, Wright WW, Vanderkooi JM. Optical Spectra of Fe(II) Cytochrome c Interpreted Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Quantum Mechanical Calculations. J Phys Chem B 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp014208y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Ninad V. Prabhu
- Johnson Research Foundation, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Johnson Research Foundation, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Johnson Research Foundation, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Johnson Research Foundation, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Johnson Research Foundation, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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Librizzi F, Viappiani C, Abbruzzetti S, Cordone L. Residual water modulates the dynamics of the protein and of the external matrix in “trehalose coated ” MbCO: An infrared and flash-photolysis study. J Chem Phys 2002. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1426409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Dantsker D, Samuni U, Friedman AJ, Yang M, Ray A, Friedman JM. Geminate rebinding in trehalose-glass embedded myoglobins reveals residue-specific control of intramolecular trajectories. J Mol Biol 2002; 315:239-51. [PMID: 11779242 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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It is becoming increasingly apparent that hydrophobic cavities (also referred to as xenon cavities) within proteins have significant functional implications. The potential functional role of these cavities in modulating the internal dynamics of carbon monoxide in myoglobin (Mb) is explored in the present study by using glassy matrices derived from trehalose to limit protein dynamics and to eliminate ligand exchange between the solvent and the protein. By varying the temperature (-15 to 65 degrees C) and humidity for samples of carbonmonoxy myoglobin embedded in trehalose-glass, it is possible to observe a hierarchy of distinct geminate recombination phases that extend from nanosecond to almost seconds that can be directly associated with rebinding from specific hydrophobic cavities. The use of mutant forms of Mb reveals the role of key residues in modulating ligand access between these cavities and the distal hemepocket.
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- David Dantsker
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx 10461, USA
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Piro MC, Militello V, Leone M, Gryczynski Z, Smith SV, Brinigar WS, Cupane A, Friedman FK, Fronticelli C. Heme pocket disorder in myoglobin: reversal by acid-induced soft refolding. Biochemistry 2001; 40:11841-50. [PMID: 11570884 DOI: 10.1021/bi010652f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The protein folding process of heme proteins entails generation of not only a correct global polypeptide structure, but also a correct, functionally competent heme environment. We employed a variety of spectroscopic approaches to probe the structure and dynamics of the heme pocket of a recombinant sperm whale myoglobin. The conformational characteristics were examined by circular dichroism, time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy, and optical absorption spectroscopy in the temperature range 300-20 K. Each of these spectroscopic probes detected modifications confined exclusively to the heme pocket of the expressed myoglobin relative to the native protein. The functional properties were examined by measuring the kinetics of CO binding after flash-photolysis. The kinetics of the expressed myoglobin were more heterogeneous than those of the native protein. Mild acid exposure of the ferric derivative of the recombinant protein resulted in a protein with "nativelike" spectroscopic properties and homogeneous CO binding kinetics. The heme pocket modifications observed in this recombinant myoglobin do not derive from inverted heme. In contrast, when native apomyoglobin is reconstituted with the heme in vitro, the heme pocket disorder could be attributed exclusively to 180 degrees rotation of the bound heme [La Mar, G. N., Toi, H., and Krishnamoorthi, R. (1984) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 106, 6395-6401; Light, W. R., Rohlfs, R. J., Palmer, G., and Olson, J. S. (1987) J. Biol. Chem. 262, 46-52]. We conclude that exposure to low pH decreases the affinity of globin for the heme and allows an extended conformational sampling or "soft refolding" to a nativelike conformation.
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- M C Piro
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
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Sussich F, Skopec C, Brady J, Cesàro A. Reversible dehydration of trehalose and anhydrobiosis: from solution state to an exotic crystal? Carbohydr Res 2001; 334:165-76. [PMID: 11513823 DOI: 10.1016/s0008-6215(01)00189-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Physico-chemical properties of the trehalose-water system are reviewed with special reference to the transformations that may shed light on the mechanism of trehalose bio-protection. Critical analysis of solution thermodynamics is made in order to scrutinize trehalose properties often called 'anomalous' and to check the consistency of literature results. Discussion on the conversion between the solid state polymorphic forms is given, with a special emphasis of the transformations involving the newly identified anhydrous crystalline form of alpha,alpha-trehalose, TRE(alpha). This exotic crystal is almost 'isomorphous' with the dihydrate crystal structure, and possesses the unique feature of reversibly absorbing water to produce the dihydrate, without changing the main structural features. The reversible process could play a functional role in the well-known ability of this sugar to protect biological structures from damage during desiccation. The final aim of the paper is to add some new insights into and to reconcile previous hypotheses for the peculiar 'in vivo' action of trehalose.
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- F Sussich
- Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Macromolecular Chemistry, Laboratory of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Trieste, Via Giorgieri 1, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
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Cottone G, Cordone L, Ciccotti G. Molecular dynamics simulation of carboxy-myoglobin embedded in a trehalose-water matrix. Biophys J 2001; 80:931-8. [PMID: 11159460 PMCID: PMC1301291 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(01)76072-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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We report on a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of carboxy-myoglobin (MbCO) embedded in a water-trehalose system. The mean square fluctuations of protein atoms, calculated at different temperatures in the 100-300 K range, are compared with those from a previous MD simulation on an H2O-solvated MbCO and with experimental data from Mössbauer spectroscopy and incoherent elastic neutron scattering on trehalose-coated MbCO. The results show that, for almost all the atomic classes, the amplitude of the nonharmonic motions stemming from the interconversion among the protein's conformational substates is reduced with respect to the H2O-solvated system, and their onset is shifted toward higher temperature. Moreover, our simulation shows that, at 300 K, the heme performs confined diffusive motions as a whole, leaving the underlying harmonic vibrations unaltered.
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- G Cottone
- INFM and Physics Department, University of Rome La Sapienza, 00185 Rome, Italy
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Developing recombinant protein pharmaceuticals has proved to be very challenging because of both the complexity of protein production and purification, and the limited physical and chemical stability of proteins. To overcome the instability barrier, proteins often have to be made into solid forms to achieve an acceptable shelf life as pharmaceutical products. The most commonly used method for preparing solid protein pharmaceuticals is lyophilization (freeze-drying). Unfortunately, the lyophilization process generates both freezing and drying stresses, which can denature proteins to various degrees. Even after successful lyophilization with a protein stabilizer(s), proteins in solid state may still have limited long-term storage stability. In the past two decades, numerous studies have been conducted in the area of protein lyophilization technology, and instability/stabilization during lyophilization and long-term storage. Many critical issues have been identified. To have an up-to-date perspective of the lyophilization process and more importantly, its application in formulating solid protein pharmaceuticals, this article reviews the recent investigations and achievements in these exciting areas, especially in the past 10 years. Four interrelated topics are discussed: lyophilization and its denaturation stresses, cryo- and lyo-protection of proteins by excipients, design of a robust lyophilization cycle, and with emphasis, instability, stabilization, and formulation of solid protein pharmaceuticals.
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- W Wang
- Biotechnology, Bayer Corporation, 800 Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA 94701, USA.
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