[A study of the effect of solvent composition and viscosity on the molecular dynamics of human serum albumin using Rayleigh scattering of Mössbauer radiation]

Biofizika. 1988 May-Jun;33(3):407-12.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

By means of RSMR changes of human serum albumen intramolecular mobility by addition of 1.5% and 7.5% of glutar dialdehyde (GD) in concentrated protein solution, heat denaturation of a protein or substitution of water by water-glycerol solvent with amount of water to glycerol: 1 to 2 were studied. It is shown that the elastic fraction for HSA is changed much less addition of GD or by heat denaturation than by substitution of water solution by water-glycerol. It seems that the observed strong influence of glycerol on intramolecular mobility of HSA is connected mostly with effective dehydration of protein (by substitution of the part of a water solvent by glycerol) and with a small volume decrease of protein (due to preference hydration effect) rather than with the increase of the solvent viscosity.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Light
  • Mathematics
  • Scattering, Radiation*
  • Serum Albumin / analysis*
  • Solvents / analysis*
  • Spectrum Analysis*
  • Viscosity

Substances

  • Serum Albumin
  • Solvents