Study of the dynamics of lyophilized protein/bioprotectant systems

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Developing recombinant protein pharmaceuticals has proved to be very challenging because of both the complexity of protein production and purification, and the limited physical and chemical stability of proteins. The most commonly used method for preparing improved shelf life solid protein pharmaceuticals is lyophilization.We propose to use OSIRIS to perform measurements on lysozyme, disaccharides (trehalose and sucrose) and lysozyme/disaccharide (trehalose, sucrose) mixtures in their lyophilised form at T=100K, T=300K and T=450K. This study will allow i) to determine the effects of the different degree of amorphisation, in particular comparing lysozyme and lysozyme/trehalose mixtures; ii) to evaluate the effects of trehalose on the stability of lysozyme, which otherwise would denature (at T=428K); iii) to establish the role of trehalose in contrasting the temperature effects.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079371
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079371
Provenance
Creator Professor Federica Migliardo; Dr Frederic Affouard
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
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 2010-07-23T04:15:05Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-07-28T07:40:02Z