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    Torres-Obreque, Karin; Kleingesinds, Eduardo Krebs; Santos, João H. P. M.; Carretero, Gustavo; Rabelo, Jheniffer; Converti, Attilio; Monteiro, Gisele; Pessoa, Adalberto; Rangel-Yagui, Carlota O.

    Preparative biochemistry & biotechnology, 04/2024, Letnik: 54, Številka: 4
    Journal Article

    Thermostability is an important and desired feature of therapeutic proteins and is critical for the success or failure of protein drugs development. It can be increased by PEGylation-binding of poly(ethylene glycol) moieties-or glycosylation-post-translational modification to add glycans. Here, the thermostability and thermodynamic parameters of native, PEGylated, and glycosylated versions of the antileukemic enzyme crisantaspase were investigated. First-order kinetics was found to describe the irreversible deactivation process. Activation energy of the enzyme-catalyzed reaction (E*) was estimated for native, PEGylated, and glycosylated enzyme (10.2, 14.8, and 18.8 kJ mol −1 respectively). Half-life decreased progressively with increasing temperature, and longer half-life was observed for PEG-crisantaspase (87.74 min) at 50 °C compared to the native form (9.79 min). The activation energy of denaturation of PEG-crisantaspase (307.1 kJ mol −1 ) was higher than for crisantaspase (218.1 kJ mol −1 ) and Glyco-crisantaspase (120.0 kJ mol −1 ), which means that more energy is required to overcome the energy barrier of the unfolding process. According to our results, PEG-crisantaspase is more thermostable than its native form, while Glyco-crisantaspase is more thermosensitive.