Low-temperature IR spectroscopy reveals four stages of water loss during lyophilization of hen egg white lysozyme
✍ Scribed by Richard L. Remmele Jr.; Cecil Stushnoff
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 561 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0006-3525
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✦ Synopsis
Water loss during lyophilization of a 49.4 mg/mL solution of lysozyme in D,O was studied with ir spectroscopy using a low-temperature, single reflection, horizontal, attenuated, total reflectance accessory. Four regions of water loss were identified and assignable to different forms of bound water. The amide I band begins to shift to higher frequency while the amide I1 concurrently shifts to lower frequency and broadens after the first stage of water loss (sublimation) at -10°C. Additionally, the carboxylate band ( a t 1584 cm-') shifts slightly to lower frequency. A second stage at 17°C is characterized by continued shifts in the carboxylate and amide I1 bands to low frequency, further broadening in the amide I1 and greater shift to high frequency in the amide I (ascribed to the removal of periphery water around the protein). At the third stage of water loss, the carboxylate band decreases substantially in relative absorbance (consistent with the removal of water from the carbonyl backbone). In the fourth and last stage, the carboxylate band nearly disappears and water loss is very slow. Based upon a final level of hydration of 0.037 h, the last stage corresponds to 25% completion of the removal of water associated with ionizable side chains. From start to finish, the amide I shifts 9 cm-' to higher frequency. 0 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.