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Capillary Electrophoresis-based Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange for Conformational Characterization of Proteins with Top-down Mass Spectrometry
Published on: June 8, 2021
Analysis of conformational change of human serum albumin using chiral capillary electrophoresis
Hui Xu1, Xiao-Dong Yu, Hong-Yuan Chen
1Laboratory of Life Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
Abstract:
The conformational change of human serum albumin (HSA) was studied through its binding with basic drug-mexiletine by chiral capillary electrophoresis. The effects of the conformational change of HSA resulted from pH, thermal, acute vibration, and alcohol on its chiral selectivity to mexiletine were investigated in detail. This study offers a simple and complementary method to investigate the binding of proteins with drugs and the characteristic of conformational change of protein. The method is easy to perform, high speed, low reagent consumption, and no modification is required to the commercially available CE instrument.
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