Artificial chaperoning of insulin, human carbonic anhydrase and hen egg lysozyme using linear dextrin chains – a sweet route to the native state of globular proteins

FEBS Letters

Sivakama Sundari, C¹  Raman, B¹  Balasubramanian, D² 

[1] Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad 500 007, India;Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad 500 034, India

关键词: Linear dextrin;    Dextran;    Artificial chaperone;    Protein refolding;   

DOI  :  10.1016/S0014-5793(98)01720-7

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

Linear dextrins (α-1,4-d-glucopyranoside chains) are known to possess amphiphilic surfaces and solubilize lipophilic compounds. We have assessed the ability of this amphiphilic surface of dextrin to inhibit the self-aggregation and assist the refolding of proteins. Addition of decameric dextrin, or dextrin-10, in the renaturation buffer improves the refolding yield of human carbonic anhydrase from its guanidinium chloride-induced denatured state. It is also seen to inhibit the self-aggregation of insulin. The ability of dextrin-10 to interact with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide and postpone its critical micellar concentration allows the use of dextrin-10 as a ‘detergent stripping agent' in a novel artificial chaperoning process described earlier. The aggregation of human carbonic anhydrase and lysozyme upon refolding is prevented by cetyltrimethylammonium bromide due to the formation of a protein-detergent complex; dextrin-10 strips off the detergent from the complex and allow the proteins to fold, thus increasing the renaturation yield. Dextran-4 (the α-1,6-d-glucopyranoside chain), which does not exhibit amphiphilic properties, does not help in such artificial chaperoning.

【 授权许可】

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