title: Artificial chaperoning of insulin, human carbonic anhydrase and hen egg lysozyme using linear dextrin chains--a sweet route to the native state of globular proteins.
abstract: Linear dextrins (alpha-1,4-D-glucopyranoside chains) are known to possess amphiphilic surfaces and solubilize lipophilic compounds. We have assessed the ability of this amphiphilic surface of dextrin to inhibit the self-aggregation and assist the refolding of proteins. Addition of decameric dextrin, or dextrin-10, in the renaturation buffer improves the refolding yield of human carbonic anhydrase from its guanidinium chloride-induced denatured state. It is also seen to inhibit the self-aggregation of insulin. The ability of dextrin-10 to interact with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide and postpone its critical micellar concentration allows the use of dextrin-10 as a 'detergent stripping agent' in a novel artificial chaperoning process described earlier. The aggregation of human carbonic anhydrase and lysozyme upon refolding is prevented by cetyltrimethylammonium bromide due to the formation of a protein-detergent complex; dextrin-10 strips off the detergent from the complex and allow the proteins to fold, thus increasing the renaturation yield. Dextran-4 (the alpha-1,6-D-glucopyranoside chain), which does not exhibit amphiphilic properties, does not help in such artificial chaperoning.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sivakama Sundari
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Raman
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Balasubramanian
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002256:Carbonic Anhydrases / Q000737:chemistry*; D002645:Chickens; D004531:Eggs; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000737:chemistry*; D018832:Molecular Chaperones / Q000737:chemistry*; D009113:Muramidase / Q000737:chemistry*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011489:Protein Denaturation