Osmolitos cosmotropos impedem a desnaturação das proteínas
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Venkatesu P, Lee MJ, Lin HM. J Phys Chem B. 2009 Apr 16;113(15):5327-38 Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 43 Keelung Road, Section 4, Taipei 106-07, Taiwan. The stability of proteins is reduced by urea, which is methylamine and nonprotecting osmolyte; eventually urea destabilizes the activity and function and alters the structure of proteins, whereas the stability of proteins is raised by the osmolytes, which are not interfering with the functional activity of proteins. The deleterious effect of urea on proteins has been counteracted by methylamines (osmolytes), such as trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), betaine, and sarcosine. To distinctly enunciate the comparison of the counteracting effects between these methylamines on urea-induced denaturation of alpha-chymotrypsin (CT), we measured the hydrodynamic diameter (d(H)) and the thermodynamic properties (T(m), DeltaH, DeltaG(U), and DeltaC(p)) with dynamic light scattering (DLS) and differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), respectively. The present investigation compares the compatibility and counteracting hypothesis by determining the effects of methylamines and urea, as individual components and in combination at a concentration ratio of 1:2 (methylamine:urea) as well as various urea concentrations (0.5-5 M) in the presence of 1 M methylamine. The experimental results revealed that the naturally occurring osmolytes TMAO, betaine, and sarcosine strongly counteracted the urea actions on alpha-chymotrypsin. The results also indicated that TMAO counteracting the urea effects on CT was much stronger than betaine or sarcosine. PMID: 19354310 [PubMed in proces
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