title: [Correlation of enzyme thermostability and its surface hydrophobicity (using a modified alpha-chymotrypsin as an example)].
abstract: Basing on the hypothesis that contact of hydrophobic surface clusters of proteins with water is thermodynamically disadvantageous, it is suggested to carry out the hydrophilization of protein surface by covalent modification in order to increase its thermostability. Hydrophilic fragments were introduced into the surface of alpha-chymotrypsin using acylation by anhydrides of aromatic carboxylic acids and reductive alkylation by aliphatic aldehydes. As a result of the hydrophilization the stability of the enzyme against irreversible thermoinactivation increased thousand-fold. The correlation is observed between the degree of hydrophilization of the protein surface and the increase in thermostability of modified alpha-chymotrypsin. The level of thermostability achieved by covalent modification of alpha-chymotrypsin is practically equal to thermostability of proteinases from extreme thermophiles, the most stable proteolytic enzymes currently known.
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Melik-Nubarov
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Shikshnis
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Slepnev
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Shchegolev
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Mozhaev
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D002918:Chymotrypsin / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000378:metabolism; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D004795:Enzyme Stability; D006358:Hot Temperature; D007700:Kinetics; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D002918:Chymotrypsin
vernacular_title: Korreliatsiia termostabil'nosti fermentov s ikh poverkhnostnoĭ gidrofobnost'iu (na primere modifitsirovannogo alpha-khimotripsina).