Abstract
We report the synthesis of new polymer-protein conjugates using a grafting-from method employing photoinduced electron transfer reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (PET-RAFT) polymerization. Lipase, an industrially important enzyme, was modified with a reversible addition-fragmentation (RAFT) chain transfer agent (CTA) using activated ester chemistry. To study the effects of polymer composition and molecular weight on the enzyme activity, a hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymer were grafted at three different polymer lengths. We found a significant impact of polymer composition on enzyme activity with hydrophobic polymer substantially increasing enzyme activity.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 338-345 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Polymer |
Volume | 137 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 14 Feb 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
Funding
We gratefully acknowledge The Army Research Office (Award# 68271-CH) Young Investigator Program ( W911NF-17-1-0015 ) and the Neuroscience Institute at AHN for funding NMR measurements and instrumentation at CMU which was partially supported by NSF ( CHE-0130903 and CHE-1039870 ). The MALDI-TOF data were collected using instrumentation purchased with NSF grant award CHE-0839233 . We gratefully acknowledge The Army Research Office (Award# 68271-CH) Young Investigator Program (W911NF-17-1-0015) and the Neuroscience Institute at AHN for funding NMR measurements and instrumentation at CMU which was partially supported by NSF (CHE-0130903 and CHE-1039870). The MALDI-TOF data were collected using instrumentation purchased with NSF grant award CHE-0839233.
Funders | Funder number |
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National Science Foundation | CHE-1039870, CHE-0130903 |
Army Research Office | W911NF-17-1-0015, 68271-CH |
Carnegie Mellon University | |
Neuroscience Institute, University of Tennessee | |
Allegheny Health Network | |
National Stroke Foundation | CHE-0839233 |
Keywords
- Grafting-from
- Lipase
- PET-RAFT
- Protein-polymer hybrid
- RDRP