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Two structural scenarios for protein stabilization by PEG.
The journal of physical chemistry. B - 17 Jul 2014
Chao Shu-Han, Matthews Sam S, Paxman Ryan, Aksimentiev Aleksei, Gruebele Martin, Price Joshua L
Abstract excerpt
PEGylation, or addition of poly(ethylene glycol) chains to proteins, is widely used to improve delivery in pharmaceutical applications. Recent studies suggest that stabilization of a protein by PEG, and hence its proteolytic degradability, is sequence-dependent and requires only short PEG chains. Here we connect stabilization by short PEG chains directly to the structural dynamics of the protein and PEG chain. We...
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