Potential of mean force treatment of salt-mediated protein crystallization.
AUTOR(ES)
Soumpasis, D M
RESUMO
In the initial stages of crystallization of proteins, monomers aggregate rapidly and form nuclei and large fractal clusters, as previously shown by dynamic light scattering experiments (Georgalis, Y., J. Schüler, J. Frank, D. M. Soumpasis, and W. Saenger. 1995. Protein crystallization screening through scattering techniques. Adv. Colloid Interface Sci. 58:57-86). In this communication we initiate an effort to understand the effective interactions controlling charged protein aggregation and crystallization using the potential of mean force (PMF) theory. We compute the PMFs of the system lysozyme-water-NaCl within the framework of the hypernetted chain approximation for a wide range of protein and salt concentrations. We show that the computed effective interactions can rationalize the experimentally observed aggregation behavior of lysozyme under crystallization conditions.
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