Effect of trehalose on protein cryoprotection : Insights into the mechanism of slowing down of hydration water

We study, with molecular dynamics simulations, a lysozyme protein immersed in a water-trehalose solution upon cooling. The aim is to understand the cryoprotectant role played by this disaccharide through the modifications that it induces on the slow dynamics of protein hydration water with its presence. The α-relaxation shows a fragile to strong crossover about 20° higher than that in the bulk water phase and 15° higher than that in lysozyme hydration water without trehalose. The protein hydration water without trehalose was found to show a second slower relaxation exhibiting a strong to strong crossover coupled with the protein dynamical transition. This slower relaxation time importantly appears enormously slowed down in our cryoprotectant solution. On the other hand, this long-relaxation in the presence of trehalose is also connected with a stronger damping of the protein structural fluctuations than that found when the protein is in contact with the pure hydration water. Therefore, this appears to be the mechanism through which trehalose manifests its cryoprotecting function.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:153

Enthalten in:

The Journal of chemical physics - 153(2020), 22 vom: 14. Dez., Seite 224503

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Camisasca, Gaia [VerfasserIn]
De Marzio, Margherita [VerfasserIn]
Gallo, Paola [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

059QF0KO0R
Anions
B8WCK70T7I
Chlorides
EC 3.2.1.17
Journal Article
Muramidase
Oxygen
S88TT14065
Trehalose
Water

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 21.04.2021

Date Revised 21.04.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1063/5.0033526

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318825252