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Sucralose Destabilization Of Protein Structure, Lee Chen, Nimesh Shukla, Inha Cho, Erin F. Cohn, Erika A. Taylor, Christina M. Othon Mar 2015

Sucralose Destabilization Of Protein Structure, Lee Chen, Nimesh Shukla, Inha Cho, Erin F. Cohn, Erika A. Taylor, Christina M. Othon

Erika A. Taylor, Ph.D.

Sucralose is a commonly employed artificial sweetener that behaves very differently than its natural disaccharide counterpart, sucrose, in terms of its interaction with biomolecules. The presence of sucralose in solution is found to destabilize the native structure of two model protein systems: the globular protein bovine serum albumin and an enzyme staphylococcal nuclease. The melting temperature of these proteins decreases as a linear function of sucralose concentration. We correlate this destabilization to the increased polarity of the molecule. The strongly polar nature is manifested as a large dielectric friction exerted on the excited-state rotational diffusion of tryptophan using time-resolved fluorescence …


Heterogeneous Rotational Diffusion Of A Fluorescent Probe In Lipid Monolayers, Christina M. Othon Aug 2014

Heterogeneous Rotational Diffusion Of A Fluorescent Probe In Lipid Monolayers, Christina M. Othon

Christina M Othon

The rotational correlation time of the lipid probe 1-palmitoyl-2-{6-[(7-nitro-2-1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl)amino]hexanoyl}-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (NBD-PC) is measured using fluorescence anisotropy for two lipid species. We measure the rotational diffusion in a monolayer of 1,2-Didecanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) which displays a phase transition at room temperature from the liquid expanded to the liquid-condensed phase. The constant rotational diffusion of the probe throughout the phase transition reflects the measurement of dynamics in only the liquid-expanded phase. We contrast the dynamic changes during this phase coexistence to the continuous density increase observed in 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) at room temperature. We observe a non-exponential decay of the probe diffusion consistent with heterogeneity …


Hierarchies Of Networked Phases Induced By Multiple Liquid-Liquid Critical Points, C. W. Hsu, J. Largo, F. W. Sciortino, Francis Starr Dec 2007

Hierarchies Of Networked Phases Induced By Multiple Liquid-Liquid Critical Points, C. W. Hsu, J. Largo, F. W. Sciortino, Francis Starr

Francis Starr

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