Ghosh, Rikhia and Roy, Susmita and Bagchi, Biman (2011) Fluctuation quench and hydrophobic collapse of polymers and biopolymers in water-DMSO binary mixture at low DMSO concentration. In: Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, 88 (8). pp. 1223-1233.
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Binary mixtures have strong influence on activities of polymers and biopolymers even at low cosolvent concentration. Among the several aqueous binary mixtures studied, water-DMSO especially stands out for its unusual behavior at certain specific concentrations of DMSO. In the present work, we study the effect of water-DMSO binary mixture on polymers and biopolymers by taking a simple linear hydrocarbon chain of intermediate length (n = 30) and the protein lysozyme, respectively. We find that at a mole fraction of 0.05 of DMSO (x(DMSO) = 0.05) in aqueous solution, the hydrocarbon chain adopts the collapsed conformation as the most stable and rigid state. In this case of 0.05 mole fraction of DMSO in bulk, the DMSO concentration in the first hydration layer around the polymer is found to be as large as 17%. Formation of such hydrophobic environment around the polymer is the reason for the collapsed state gaining so much stability. Interestingly, similar quench of conformational fluctuation is also observed for the protein investigated. It is observed that in the case of alkane polymer chains, long wavelength fluctuation gets easily quenched, the polymer being purely hydrophobic. However, in case of the protein, quench of fluctuation is prominent only at the hydrophobic surface, and quench of long wavelength fluctuation becomes insignificant for the full protein. As protein contains both hydrophobic and hydrophilic moieties, the extent of quench of conformational fluctuation with respect to that in pure water is almost half for the biopolymer complex (16.83%) than the same for pure hydrophobic polymer chain (32.43%).
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Journal of the Indian Chemical Society |
| Publisher: | Indian Chemical Society |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Indian Chemical Society. |
| Keywords: | Polymer conformation fluctuation;water-DMSO binary mixture; radius of gyration;enhanced enzymatic activity |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Nov 2011 05:56 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2011 05:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/41940 |
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