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School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan. kshiraki@jaist.ac.jp
Small potent inhibitors of aggregation are eagerly demanded for preventing the inactivation of proteins. This paper shows that amino acid esters (AAEs) prevent heat-induced aggregation and inactivation of hen egg lysozyme. Lysozyme was completely inactivated (<1% original activity) during heat treatment at 98 degrees C for 30 min in a solution containing 0.2 mg/mL lysozyme in 50 mM Na-phosphate buffer (pH 6.5). The residual activities only slightly increased (<5%) in the presence of 100 mM commonly used additives such as arginine, guanidine, urea, and sugars. However, in the presence of 100 mM AAEs, the residual activities were >60% and no aggregates were observed during the heat treatment at 98 degrees C for 30 min. This fact provides new information on the scaffold for designing additives to prevent heat-induced aggregation.
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