A model-free method for extracting interaction potential between protein molecules using small-angle X-ray scattering
A model-free method for extracting interaction potential between protein molecules using small-angle X-ray scattering
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利用小角 X 射线散射提取蛋白质分子间相互作用势的无模型方法
DOI:
10.1016/j.molliq.2014.03.014
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
6
通讯作者:
Keiko Nishikawa
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作者:
Tomonari Sumi;Hiroshi Imamur;TakeshiMorita;Keiko Nishikawa
A small-angle X-ray scattering has been used to probe protein–protein interaction in solution. Conventional methods need to input modeled potentials with variable/invariable parameters to reproduce the experimental structure factor. In the present study, a model-free method for extracting the excess part of effective interaction potential between protein molecules in solutions over an introduced hard-sphere potential by using experimental data of small-angle X-ray scattering is presented on the basis of liquid-state integral equation theory. The reliability of the model-free method is tested by the application to experimentally derived structure factors for dense lysozyme solutions with different solution conditions [Javid et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.99, 028101 (2007), Schroer et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.106, 178102 (2011)]. The structure factors calculated from the model-free method agree well with the experimental ones. The model-free method provides the following picture of the lysozyme solution: these are the stabilization of contact-pair configurations, large activation barrier against their formations, and screened Coulomb repulsion between the charged proteins. In addition, the model-free method will be useful to verify whether or not a model for colloidal system is acceptable to describing protein–protein interaction.