Investigation Into The Mechanism Of Protection Of Proteins During Freeze-Drying

DOI

Protection of biological molecules during freezing and lyophilisation is of commercial importance to the pharmaceutical, medical, and food industries. Sugars and surfactants both act as cryoprotectants but the mechanisms of protection are not well understood and likely to be different. We have recently carried out the first direct structural studies of cryoprotection of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) by sucrose and mannitol using a custom built temperature controlled cell on LOQ at ISIS. This scattering data allow us to demonstrate the protein structure breaks down during the freezing process and to observe differences in this process in different sugar solutions. In this current experiment we propose to use SANS2d to repeat the temperature cycling studies and obtain higher quality data with a wider Q-range that will enable us to analyse the structural transitions that take place.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24091213
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24091213
Provenance
Creator Dr Richard Heenan; Dr Cameron Neylon; Dr Vicky Kett
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
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-07-25T07:41:42Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-07-27T14:47:34Z