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ArticleFrontiers in molecular biosciences2021

Thermodynamic Origin of Differential Excipient-Lysozyme Interactions.

Jas Kalayan, Robin A Curtis, Jim Warwicker, Richard H Henchman

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Article in Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jas KalayanManchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Robin A CurtisManchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Jim WarwickerManchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Richard H HenchmanManchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
University of Manchester · GBUniversity of Sydney · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the intricate interplay of interactions between proteins, excipients, ions and water is important to achieve the effective purification and stable formulation of protein therapeutics. The free energy of lysozyme interacting with two kinds of polyanionic excipients, citrate and tripolyphosphate, together with sodium chloride and TRIS-buffer, are analysed in multiple-walker metadynamics simulations to understand why tripolyphosphate causes lysozyme to precipitate but citrate does not. The resulting multiscale decomposition of energy and entropy components for water, sodium chloride, excipients and lysozyme reveals that lysozyme is more stabilised by the interaction of tripolyphosphate with basic residues. This is accompanied by more sodium ions being released into solution from tripolyphosphate than for citrate, whilst the latter instead has more water molecules released into solution. Even though lysozyme aggregation is not directly probed in this study, these different mechanisms are suspected to drive the cross-linking between lysozyme molecules with vacant basic residues, ultimately leading to precipitation.

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entropyfree energy methodsmetadynamics methodmultiscaleprotein-excipient bindingprotein hydrationprotein-protein bindingstatistical mechanics

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PMID34179093
PMCPMC8226134
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