Supramolecular assemblies of arginine and their impact on protein aggregation

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Arginine is an important molecule which utilised in industrial, biochemical and medical research to aid in the successful refolding of proteins and to resist the effects of temperature denaturation. Whilst it is emerging as a useful tool, the mechanism by which Arginine interacts with proteins to prevent aggregation is still not fully understood. We aim to complete the first solution-based structural study of Arginine. Our aim is to determine the interactions of Arginine with water and other Arginine molecules. In particular, we are interested in determining the clustering behaviour and answer the following questions: i) Do Arginine molecules associate to form clusters in solution? ii) Do clustered molecules align their methylene groups so as to expose a hydrophobic surface? iii) Are there any other inter-bonds which could be important for preventing protein aggregation?

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090538
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090538
Provenance
Creator Dr James Towey; Professor Lorna Dougan; Dr Natasha Rhys; Professor Alan Soper
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-06-09T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-06-12T23:00:00Z