General Counteraction Exerted by Sugars against Denaturants

General Counteraction Exerted by Sugars against Denaturants

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The conformational stability of globular proteins is strongly influenced by the addition to water of different co-solutes.Some of the latter destabilize the native state, while others stabilize it.It is emerging that stabilizing agents are able to counteract the action of destabilizing agents.We have already provided experimental evidence that this counteraction is a general phenomenon and offered a rationalization.

In Dining Room Set the present work, we show that four different sugars, namely fructose, glucose, sucrose, and trehalose, counteract the effect of urea, tetramethylurea, sodium perchlorate, Food Based Supplements guanidinium chloride, and guanidinium thiocyanate despite the chemical and structural differences of those destabilizing agents.The rationalization we provide is as follows: (a) the solvent-excluded volume effect, a purely entropic effect, stabilizes the native state, whose solvent-accessible surface area is smaller than the one of denatured conformations; (b) the magnitude of the solvent-excluded volume effect increases markedly in ternary solutions because the experimental density of such solutions is larger than that of pure water.