Home
Resources
Publications
Nano Reengineering of Horseradish Peroxidase With Dendritic Macromolecules for Stability Enhancement

Nano Reengineering of Horseradish Peroxidase With Dendritic Macromolecules for Stability Enhancement

Arezoo Khosravi, Manouchehr Vossoughi, Saeed Shahrokhian, Iran Alemzadeh

Enzyme Microb Technol. 2012 Jan 5;50(1):10-6.

PMID: 22133434

Abstract:

A simple bio-conjugation procedure to surround a single horseradish peroxidase (HRP) enzyme molecule with dendritic polyester macromolecules (polyester-32-hydroxyl-1-carboxyl bis-MPA dendron, generation 5) was proposed. The characterization of resultant nanoparticles entitled HRP dendrozyme, was performed by transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering, gel permeation chromatography and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The results showed that HRP nanoparticles were spherical in shape and have an average size of 14±2 nm in diameter. Furthermore, bio-conformational characterization of HRP dendrozyme was performed by means of circular dichroism and fluorescence spectroscopy to evaluate the secondary and tertiary structure changes after enzyme modification. These investigations revealed that protein conformation had small changes (in secondary and tertiary structures) after bio-conjugation. We also reported here that dendritic modification did not significantly affect the kinetic parameters of free HRP. The stabilization of HRP with dendron macromolecules as single enzyme nanoparticles resulted in improvement of half-life over 70 days storage at 4 °C as well as its tolerance under different elevated temperatures up to 80 °C and in the presence of organic solvents for 15 min. These significant results promise extensive applications of HRP particularly in harsh environmental conditions.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Price
LS76238	Polyester-32-hydroxyl-1-acetylene bis-MPA dendron, generation 5	Price
LS76239	Polyester-16-hydroxyl-1-acetylene bis-MPA dendron, generation 4	Price
LS76241	Polyester-32-hydroxyl-1-carboxyl bis-MPA dendron, generation 5	Price
LS76242	Polyester-16-hydroxyl-1-carboxyl bis-MPA dendron, generation 4	Price
LS76243	Polyester-8-hydroxyl-1-carboxyl bis-MPA dendron, generation 3	Price

As a specialist in analytical chemical Products, Alfa Chemistry offers consumers a wealth of raw materials and a full range of technologies and services.

QUICK LINKS

HEADQUARTERS

Tel:

Fax:

Email: