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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. B2021

Effect of Buffer on Protein Stability in Aqueous Solutions: A Simple Protein Aggregation Model.

Sandi Brudar, Barbara Hribar-Lee

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry. B, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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35citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 95 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. BioMThermDB 1.0: Thermophysical Database of Proteins in Solutions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  11. Direct Quantification of Protein-Protein Interactions in Living Bacterial Cells.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  13. Revisiting the Effect of Trypsin Digestion Buffers on Artificial Deamidation.Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry · 2025
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  15. The influence of glycine onZeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) · 2024
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  17. Investigating the influence of solvent type and pH on protein adsorption onto silica surface by evanescent-wave cavity ring-down spectroscopy.Analytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sandi BrudarFaculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana,, Večna pot 113, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Barbara Hribar-LeeFaculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana,, Večna pot 113, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0002-9029-588X
University of Ljubljana · SI

Funding

Solvation modeling for next-gen biomolecule simulationsRM1GM135136 · NIGMS · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI COUTSIAS, EVANGELOS A., DILL, KEN A · 2020 to 2024
$6.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS RM1 GM135136
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of proteins has recently been associated with the onset of numerous diseases. Despite several studies in this area of protein aggregation, buffer-specific effects always seem to be overlooked. In this study we investigated the influence of buffers on the phase stability of hen egg-white lysozyme (HEWL) and its respective protein-protein interactions by measuring the cloud point temperature, second virial coefficient, and interaction diffusion coefficient of several HEWL-buffer solutions (MOPS, phosphate, HEPES, cacodylate) at pH 7.0. The results indicate that the buffer molecules, depending on their hydration, adsorb on the protein surface, and modulate their electrostatic stability. The obtained information was used to extend the recently developed coarse-grained protein model to incorporate buffer-specific effects. Treated by Wertheim's perturbation theory the model qualitatively correctly predicted the experimentally observed phase separation of all investigated HEWL-buffer solutions, and further allowed us to predict the phase stability of protein formulations even in experimentally unattainable conditions. Since the theory can be straightforwardly extended to include multiple components it presents a useful tool to study protein aggregation in crowded cell-like systems.

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Protein AggregatesProteinsProtein StabilitySolutionsTemperatureWaterProtein AggregatesProteinsSolutionsWater

Identifiers

PMID33656887
PMCPMC8041305
OpenAlexW3134866274

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