Global multi-method analysis of interaction parameters for reversibly self-associating macromolecules at high concentrations

Abstract Weak macromolecular interactions assume a dominant role in the behavior of highly concentrated solutions, and are at the center of a variety of fields ranging from colloidal chemistry to cell biology, neurodegenerative diseases, and manufacturing of protein drugs. They are frequently measur...

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Autores principales: Arun Parupudi, Sumit K. Chaturvedi, Regina Adão, Robert W. Harkness, Sonia Dragulin-Otto, Lewis E. Kay, Reza Esfandiary, Huaying Zhao, Peter Schuck
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Sumario:Abstract Weak macromolecular interactions assume a dominant role in the behavior of highly concentrated solutions, and are at the center of a variety of fields ranging from colloidal chemistry to cell biology, neurodegenerative diseases, and manufacturing of protein drugs. They are frequently measured in different biophysical techniques in the form of second virial coefficients, and nonideality coefficients of sedimentation and diffusion, which may be related mechanistically to macromolecular distance distributions in solution and interparticle potentials. A problem arises for proteins where reversible self-association often complicates the concentration-dependent behavior, such that grossly inconsistent coefficients are measured in experiments based on different techniques, confounding quantitative conclusions. Here we present a global multi-method analysis that synergistically bridges gaps in resolution and sensitivity of orthogonal techniques. We demonstrate the method with a panel of monoclonal antibodies exhibiting different degrees of self-association. We show how their concentration-dependent behavior, examined by static and dynamic light scattering and sedimentation velocity, can be jointly described in a self-consistent framework that separates nonideality coefficients from self-association properties, and thereby extends the quantitative interpretation of nonideality coefficients to probe dynamics in highly concentrated protein solutions.