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Thermoresponsive Poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide-co-glycidyl methacrylate) Copolymers and Its Catalytically Active α-Chymotrypsin Bioconjugate with Enhanced Enzyme Stability

Responsive (smart, intelligent, adaptive) polymers have been widely explored for a variety of advanced applications in recent years. The thermoresponsive poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) (PDEAAm), which has a better biocompatibility than the widely investigated poly(N,N-isopropylacrylamide), has gained i...

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Autores principales: Kasza, György, Stumphauser, Tímea, Bisztrán, Márk, Szarka, Györgyi, Hegedüs, Imre, Nagy, Endre, Iván, Béla
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8004754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33806995
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13060987
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author Kasza, György
Stumphauser, Tímea
Bisztrán, Márk
Szarka, Györgyi
Hegedüs, Imre
Nagy, Endre
Iván, Béla
author_facet Kasza, György
Stumphauser, Tímea
Bisztrán, Márk
Szarka, Györgyi
Hegedüs, Imre
Nagy, Endre
Iván, Béla
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description Responsive (smart, intelligent, adaptive) polymers have been widely explored for a variety of advanced applications in recent years. The thermoresponsive poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) (PDEAAm), which has a better biocompatibility than the widely investigated poly(N,N-isopropylacrylamide), has gained increased interest in recent years. In this paper, the successful synthesis, characterization, and bioconjugation of a novel thermoresponsive copolymer, poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide-co-glycidyl methacrylate) (P(DEAAm-co-GMA)), obtained by free radical copolymerization with various comonomer contents and monomer/initiator ratios are reported. It was found that all the investigated copolymers possess LCST-type thermoresponsive behavior with small extent of hysteresis, and the critical solution temperatures (CST), i.e., the cloud and clearing points, decrease linearly with increasing GMA content of these copolymers. The P(DEAAm-co-GMA) copolymer with pendant epoxy groups was found to conjugate efficiently with α-chymotrypsin in a direct, one-step reaction, leading to enzyme–polymer nanoparticle (EPNP) with average size of 56.9 nm. This EPNP also shows reversible thermoresponsive behavior with somewhat higher critical solution temperature than that of the unreacted P(DEAAm-co-GMA). Although the catalytic activity of the enzyme–polymer nanoconjugate is lower than that of the native enzyme, the results of the enzyme activity investigations prove that the pH and thermal stability of the enzyme is significantly enhanced by conjugation the with P(DEAAm-co-GMA) copolymer.
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spelling pubmed-80047542021-03-29 Thermoresponsive Poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide-co-glycidyl methacrylate) Copolymers and Its Catalytically Active α-Chymotrypsin Bioconjugate with Enhanced Enzyme Stability Kasza, György Stumphauser, Tímea Bisztrán, Márk Szarka, Györgyi Hegedüs, Imre Nagy, Endre Iván, Béla Polymers (Basel) Article Responsive (smart, intelligent, adaptive) polymers have been widely explored for a variety of advanced applications in recent years. The thermoresponsive poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) (PDEAAm), which has a better biocompatibility than the widely investigated poly(N,N-isopropylacrylamide), has gained increased interest in recent years. In this paper, the successful synthesis, characterization, and bioconjugation of a novel thermoresponsive copolymer, poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide-co-glycidyl methacrylate) (P(DEAAm-co-GMA)), obtained by free radical copolymerization with various comonomer contents and monomer/initiator ratios are reported. It was found that all the investigated copolymers possess LCST-type thermoresponsive behavior with small extent of hysteresis, and the critical solution temperatures (CST), i.e., the cloud and clearing points, decrease linearly with increasing GMA content of these copolymers. The P(DEAAm-co-GMA) copolymer with pendant epoxy groups was found to conjugate efficiently with α-chymotrypsin in a direct, one-step reaction, leading to enzyme–polymer nanoparticle (EPNP) with average size of 56.9 nm. This EPNP also shows reversible thermoresponsive behavior with somewhat higher critical solution temperature than that of the unreacted P(DEAAm-co-GMA). Although the catalytic activity of the enzyme–polymer nanoconjugate is lower than that of the native enzyme, the results of the enzyme activity investigations prove that the pH and thermal stability of the enzyme is significantly enhanced by conjugation the with P(DEAAm-co-GMA) copolymer. MDPI 2021-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8004754/ /pubmed/33806995 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13060987 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Kasza, György
Stumphauser, Tímea
Bisztrán, Márk
Szarka, Györgyi
Hegedüs, Imre
Nagy, Endre
Iván, Béla
Thermoresponsive Poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide-co-glycidyl methacrylate) Copolymers and Its Catalytically Active α-Chymotrypsin Bioconjugate with Enhanced Enzyme Stability
title Thermoresponsive Poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide-co-glycidyl methacrylate) Copolymers and Its Catalytically Active α-Chymotrypsin Bioconjugate with Enhanced Enzyme Stability
title_full Thermoresponsive Poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide-co-glycidyl methacrylate) Copolymers and Its Catalytically Active α-Chymotrypsin Bioconjugate with Enhanced Enzyme Stability
title_fullStr Thermoresponsive Poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide-co-glycidyl methacrylate) Copolymers and Its Catalytically Active α-Chymotrypsin Bioconjugate with Enhanced Enzyme Stability
title_full_unstemmed Thermoresponsive Poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide-co-glycidyl methacrylate) Copolymers and Its Catalytically Active α-Chymotrypsin Bioconjugate with Enhanced Enzyme Stability
title_short Thermoresponsive Poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide-co-glycidyl methacrylate) Copolymers and Its Catalytically Active α-Chymotrypsin Bioconjugate with Enhanced Enzyme Stability
title_sort thermoresponsive poly(n,n-diethylacrylamide-co-glycidyl methacrylate) copolymers and its catalytically active α-chymotrypsin bioconjugate with enhanced enzyme stability
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8004754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33806995
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13060987
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