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Protein Science, Vol 1, Issue 9 1133-1143, Copyright © 1992 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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Steric exclusion is the principal source of the preferential hydration of proteins in the presence of polyethylene glycols

R. BHAT and S. N. TIMASHEFF
Present address: Center for Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110 067, India.

The preferential interactions of bovine serum albumin, lysozyme, chymotrypsinogen, ribonuclease A, and {beta}-lactoglobulin with polyethylene glycols (PEGs) of molecular weight 200-6,000 have been measured by dialysis equilibrium coupled with high precision densimetry. All the proteins were found to be preferentially hydrated in all the PEGs, and the magnitude of the preferential hydration increased with increasing PEG size for each protein. The change in the chemical potentials of the proteins with the addition of the PEGs had highly positive values, indicating a strong thermodynamic destabilization of the system by the PEGs. A viscosity study of the PEGs showed them to be randomly coiled polymers, as their radii of gyration were related to the molecular weight by R(g) = aM(0.55). The thickness of the effective shell impenetrable to PEG around protein molecules, calculated from the preferential hydration, was found to vary with PEG molecular weight in similar fashion as the PEG radius of gyration, supporting the proposal (Arakawa, T. & Timasheff, S.N., 1985a, Biochemistry 24, 6756-6762) that the preferential exclusion of PEGs from proteins is due principally to the steric exclusion of PEG from the protein domain, although favorable interactions with protein surface residues, in particular nonpolar ones, may compete with the exclusion. These thermodynamically unfavorable preferential exclusion interactions lead to the action of PEGs as precipitants, although they may destabilize protein structure at higher temperatures.
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