Self-assembly of protein polymer conjugates: Effect of copolymer structure

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Conjugation of therapeutic proteins to polymers is well established but most methods result in multi-site and multiple conjugation or crosslinking resulting in lack of orientation and loss of activity. Using an enzyme mediated conjugation method we have prepared well-defined protein-polymer conjugates using a model protein, green fluorescent protein (GFP) with diblock copolymers based on a several hydrophilic and hydrophobic biocompatible polymers. In this proposal we wish to determine the effects of block copolymer structure on the properties of aggregates formed by these polymers & conjugates with GFP in solution, to develop an understanding of the phase behaviour of these species. We will also study GFP-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) a polymer which becomes less soluble as the temperature increases to observe changes in aggregation state based on polymer hydrophobicity.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42593636
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42593636
Provenance
Creator Ms Duygu Celebi; Dr Gavin Hazell; Dr Susanna Piluso; Mr Yun Jin; Dr Gabriel Cavalli; Professor Karen Edler; Dr Amani El Fagui
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-09-17T10:13:55Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-10-10T08:16:25Z