Explanation of inconsistencies in the determination of human serum albumin thermal stability
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- 1. Center for Interdisciplinary Biosciences, Technology and Innovation Park, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, Trieda SNP 1, 04011 Košice, Slovakia
- 2. Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, 04001 Košice, Slovakia
- 3. Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, Jesenná 5, 04154 Košice, Slovakia
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- 1. Center for Interdisciplinary Biosciences, Technology and Innovation Park, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, Trieda SNP 1, 04011 Košice, Slovakia
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Thermal denaturation of human serum albumin has been the subject of many studies in recent decades, but the results of these studies are often conflicting and inconclusive. To clarify this, we combined different spectroscopic and calorimetric techniques and performed an in-depth analysis of the structural changes that occur during the thermal unfolding of different conformational forms of human serum albumin. Our results showed that the inconsistency of the results in the literature is related to the different quality of samples in different batches, methodological approaches and experimental conditions used in the studies. We confirmed that the
presence of fatty acids (FAs) causes a more complex process of the thermal denaturation of human serum albumin. While the unfolding pathway of human serum albumin without FAs can be described by a two-step model, consisting of subsequent reversible and irreversible transitions, the thermal denaturation of human serum albumin with FAs appears to be a three-step process, consisting of a reversible step followed by two consecutive irreversible transitions.
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- Journal article: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.123379 (DOI)