Kinetic analysis of protein crystal nucleation in gel matrix

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5931-5940

  Wang, Lei ^a,b   Liu, Xiang Yang ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEN EGG LYSOZYME; LYSOZYME; SEPHAROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GEL; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE TENSION; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; GELS; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MURAMIDASE; PHASE TRANSITION; SEPHAROSE; SURFACE TENSION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 58749108308     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.108.135574     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. McPherson, A. 1999. Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules. Cold Spring Harbor Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
2. Matsuda, S., T. Senda, S. Itoh, G. Kawano, H. Mizuno, and Y. Mitsui. 1989. New crystal form of recombinant murine interferon-β: J. Biol. Chem. 264:13381-13382.
3. Hirsch, R. E., C. Raventos-Suarez, J. A. Olson, and R. L. Nagel. 1985. Ligand state of intraerythrocytic circulating HbC crystals in homozygote CC patients. Blood. 66:775-778.
4. Lorber, B., and R. Giegé. 2001. Nucleation and growth of thaumatin crystals within a gel under microgravity on STS-95 mission vs. under Earth's gravity. J. Cryst. Growth. 231:252-261.
5. Moreno, A., B. Quiroz-García, F. Yokaichiya, V. Stojanoff, and P. Rudolph. 2007. Protein crystal growth in gels and stationary magnetic fields. Cryst. Res. Technol. 42:231-236.
6. Sauter, C., B. Lorber, and R. Giegé. 2002. Towards atomic resolution with crystals grown in gel: the case of thaumatin seen at room temperature. Proteins. 48:146-150.
7. Robert, M. C., and F. Lefaucheux. 1988. Crystal growth in gels: principle and applications. J. Cryst. Growth. 90:358-367.
8. Biertümpfel, C., J. Basquin, D. Suck, and C. Sauter. 2002. Crystallization of biological macromolecules using agarose gel. Acta Crystallogr. D Biol. Crystallogr. 58:1657-1659.
9. Finet, S., F. Bonneté, J. Frouin, K. Provost, and A. Tardieu. 1998. Lysozyme crystal growth, as observed by small angle X-ray scattering, proceeds without crystallization intermediates. Eur. Biophys. J. 27:263-271.
10. Vidal, O., M. C. Robert, and F. Boué. 1998. Gel growth of lysozyme crystals studied by small angle neutron scattering: case of agarose gel, a nucleation promoter. J. Cryst. Growth. 192:257-270.
11. Robert, M. C., Y. Bernard, and F. Lefaucheux. 1994. Study of nucleation-related phenomena in lysozyme solution. Application to gel growth. Acta Crystallogr. D Biol. Crystallogr. 50:496-503.
12. Thiessen, K. J. 1994. The use of two novel methods to grow protein crystals by mierodialysis and vapor diffusion in an agarose gel. Acta Crystallogr. D Biol. Crystallogr. 50:491-495.
13. Moreno, A., E. Saridakis, and N. E. Chayen. 2002. Combination of oils and gels for enhancing the growth of protein crystals. J. Appl. Cryst. 35:140-142.
14. Tsekova, S., S. Popova, and C. Nanev. 2002. Nucleation rate determination by a concentration pulse technique: application on ferritin crystals to show the effect of surface treatment of a substrate. Acta Crystallogr. D Biol. Crystallogr. 58:1588-1592.
15. Liu, X. Y. 2001. Generic mechanism of heterogeneous nucleation and molecular interfacial effects. In Advances in Crystal Growth Research. K. Sato, K. Nakajima, and Y. Furukawa, editors. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 42-61.
16. K.-Q. Zhang and X. Y. Liu, 2004. In situ observation of colloidal monolayer nucleation driven by an alternating electric field. Nature. 429:739-742.
17. Penkova, A., N. Chayen, E. Saridakis, and C. N. Nanev. 2002. Nucleation of protein crystals in a wide continuous supersaturation gradient. Acta. Crys. D58:1606-1610.
18. Howard, S. B., P. J. Twigg, J. K. Baird, and E. J. Meehan. 1988. The solubility of hen egg-white lysozyme. J. Cryst. Growth. 90:94-104.
19. Cacioppo, E., and M. L. Pusey. 1991. The solubility of tetragonal form of hen egg white lysozyme from pH 4.0 to 5.4. J. Cryst. Growth. 114:286-292.
20. Judge, R. A., R. S. Jacobs, T. Frazier, E. H. Snell, and M. L. Pusey. 1999. The effect of temperature and solution pH on the nucleation of tetragonal lysozyme crystals. Biophys. J. 77:1585-1593.
21. Zettlemoyer, A. C. 1969. Nucleation. Marcel Dekker, New York.
22. Liu, X. Y., and S. W. Lim. 2003. Templating and supersaturation-driven anti-templating: principles of biomineral architecture. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125:888-895.
23. Liu, X. Y. 2000. Generic progressive heterogeneous processes in nucleation. Langmuir. 16:7337-7345.
24. Liu, X. Y., and C. S. Strom. 2000. Self-epitaxial nucleation origin of fractal aggregation. J. Chem. Phys. 113:4408-4411.
25. Liu, X. Y. 2000. Heterogeneous nucleation or homogeneous nucleation? J. Chem. Phys. 112:9949-9953.
26. Land, T. A., A. J. Malkin, Y. G. Kuznetsov, A. Mcpherson, and J. J. Deyoreo. 1995. Mechanisms of protein crystal growth: an atomic force microscopy study of canavalin crystallization. Phys. Rev. Lett. 75: 2774-2777.
27. Liu, X. Y., K. Maiwa, and K. Tsukamoto. 1997. Heterogeneous two-dimensional nucleation and growth kinetics. J. Chem. Phys. 106:1870-1879.
28. Jia, Y. W. 2005. Self-assembly of protein at aqueous solution surface in correlation to protein crystallization. Appl. Phys. Lett. 86:023903-1-023903-3.
29. Magdassi, S., and O. Toledano. 1996. Enhanced hydrophobicity: formation and properties of surface-active proteins. In Surface Activity of Proteins: Chemical and Physicochemical Modifications. S. Magdassi, editor. Marcel Dekker, New York. 39-60.
30. Ward, A. F. H., and L. Tordai. 1946. Time-dependence of boundary tensions of solutions I. The role of diffusion in time-effects. J. Chem. Phys. 14:453-461.
31. Subirade, M., and J. Gueguen. 1992. Effect of dissociation and conformational changes on the surface behavior of pea legumin. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 152:442-454.
32. Tornberg, E. 1978. The application of the drop volume technique to measurements of the adsorption of proteins at interfaces. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 64:391-402.
33. Jia, Y. W., and X. Y. Liu. 2006. From surface self-assembly to crystallization: prediction of protein crystallization conditions. J. Phys. Chem. B. 110:6949-6955.
34. Liu, X. Y. 1999. A new kinetic model for three-dimensional heterogeneous nucleation. J. Chem. Phys. 111:1628-1635.
35. Liu, X. Y. 1993. The solid-fluid interface: a comparison and further description using the layer model. Surf. Sci. 290:403-412.
36. Provost, K., and M. C. Robert. 1995. Crystal growth of lysozymes in media contaminated by parent molecules: influence of gelled media. J. Cryst. Growth. 156:112-120.
37. Zheng, B., L. S. Roach, and R. F. Ismagilov. 2003. Screening of protein crystallization conditions on a microfluidic chip using nanoliter-size droplets. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125:11170-11171.
38. Garcia, E., S. Veesler, R. Boistelle, and C. Hoff. 1999. Crystallization and dissolution of pharmaceutical compounds an experimental approach. J. Cryst. Growth. 198/199:1360-1364.