An alternative approach to the osmotic second virial coefficient of protein solutions and its application to liquid liquid phase separation

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Hauptverfasser: Surfaro, Furio, Maier, Ralph, Pastryk, Kai-Florian, Zhang, Fajun, Schreiber, Frank, Roth, Roland
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author Surfaro, Furio
Maier, Ralph
Pastryk, Kai-Florian
Zhang, Fajun
Schreiber, Frank
Roth, Roland
author_facet Surfaro, Furio
Maier, Ralph
Pastryk, Kai-Florian
Zhang, Fajun
Schreiber, Frank
Roth, Roland
contents The osmotic second virial coefficient B2 is an important parameter to describe the interactions and phase behavior of protein solutions, including colloidal systems and macromolecular solutions. Another key parameter to describe the driving force of the nucleation of a new phase is the supersaturation, which is used in the classical nucleation theory framework and is connected with the favorable contribution in the Gibbs free energy in the bulk solution. In this article, we establish a connection between B2 calculated from small angle Xray scattering (SAXS) data and the values of B2 obtained from supersaturation measurements using thermodynamics considerations. The values of the second virial coefficient calculated employing this method agree with those determined via SAXS in the region near the liquid liquid phase separation border for human serum albumin and bovine serum albumin. The general relations adopted are shown to be useful for the estimation of the second virial coefficient B2 for globular proteins, in the proximity of the binodal biphasic coexistent region.
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spellingShingle An alternative approach to the osmotic second virial coefficient of protein solutions and its application to liquid liquid phase separation
Surfaro, Furio
Maier, Ralph
Pastryk, Kai-Florian
Zhang, Fajun
Schreiber, Frank
Roth, Roland
Soft Condensed Matter
Chemical Physics
The osmotic second virial coefficient B2 is an important parameter to describe the interactions and phase behavior of protein solutions, including colloidal systems and macromolecular solutions. Another key parameter to describe the driving force of the nucleation of a new phase is the supersaturation, which is used in the classical nucleation theory framework and is connected with the favorable contribution in the Gibbs free energy in the bulk solution. In this article, we establish a connection between B2 calculated from small angle Xray scattering (SAXS) data and the values of B2 obtained from supersaturation measurements using thermodynamics considerations. The values of the second virial coefficient calculated employing this method agree with those determined via SAXS in the region near the liquid liquid phase separation border for human serum albumin and bovine serum albumin. The general relations adopted are shown to be useful for the estimation of the second virial coefficient B2 for globular proteins, in the proximity of the binodal biphasic coexistent region.
title An alternative approach to the osmotic second virial coefficient of protein solutions and its application to liquid liquid phase separation
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15347